Beautifully Undone

A song inspired by the massive amount of work Radley Balko has done to expose the sad reality of the war on drugs.  A policy that has failed on a massive scale.
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No Knock Raid

Melting - Lindy Vopnfjord

You came back in November 
As cold as the weather 
Everything freezing so fast 

Trying to get back the feeling 
From the heat you’d been stealing 
We both knew that it couldn’t last 

It’s a long way to walk through the snow 
To fan the flames of a love you already know 
For me it is frozen in time 
And melting won’t make you mine 

I took the chill from your hands dear 
But still you couldn’t get warm here 
Frost on the tears in your eye 

As the Spring thaws the spirit 
You could already hear it 
The sound of my saying good-bye 

It’s a long way to walk through the snow 
To fan the flames of a love you already know 
For me it is frozen in time 
And melting won’t make you mine


"Melting was written at the Reykjavik Folk Festival. The Icelandic artists performing there were mind blowing. Like lava and glaciers, Icelandic poetry and music are always claiming new ground.  And while I was there, the weather kept changing drastically every five minutes.  It was like I was transported to another world." - Lindy Vopnfjord

Frozen in Time

Melting

LYRICS
The stars burn so brightly 
Billions of light years away 
See the ghosts of stars long gone 
Feel the depths of the milky way 

First light creeps in slowly 
You wonder what might be revealed 
As a new scene opens up 
That nights curtain had concealed 

And the first taste of fall colours 
Melts like honey to a tongue 
And the golden light is the morning light 
Shining on the leaves of autumn 

All the leaves of autumn 
All the leaves of fall 

Painters capture what they can 
But they can’t compete 
With the gentle hand of natures command 
Of colours we can barely speak 

It’s a big bouquet by the full light of day 
It’s a flare at sundown 
With crimson blush and a burgundy burst 
When the breeze blows the leaves around 

And the season turns when the red leaves burn 
And the maple trees retire 
And the birch barks knows when cold wind blows 
That the snow is soon to fly… 

All the leaves of autumn 
All the leaves of fall 

THE LEAVES OF AUTUMN 
"I drove up to a farm in Lanark County, Ontario, at night. Arrived in the dark. The baby woke us up so I took her out into the living room and then she fell asleep again. But then I was awake. So I just started writing down what I was seeing outside." 

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A happy autumnal soundtrack worthy of being canonized in a Canadian anthology of poetry. Vopnfjord captures all the wonderment of the season, “First light creeps in slowly / You wonder what might be revealed.” His talent for words is obvious and fresh in verse: “It’s a big bouquet by the full light of day / It’s a flare at sundown / With crimson blush and a burgundy burst / When the breeze blows the leaves around.” Simple beauty woven into a memorable track that pays homage to Canadian cottage country. A testament to his Icelandic roots and heritage, the song boasts sheer appreciation for the grace and beauty of nature. 

Lindy Vopnfjord 
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals, Wurlitzer Piano on track 4 

Rick May 
Bass Guitar, Engineered by Garnett Betts at Coast Road Recording, Victoria, BC 

Örn Eldjárn 
Electric Guitar on track 2, engineered by Snorri Helgason at Snossgæti, Reykjavik, Iceland 

Bob Egan 
Pedal Steel Guitar 

Ian LeFeuvre 
Electric Guitar on track 2, Percussion and Drums on track 2, Violele on track 12 

Stephen Krecklo 
Lap Steel Guitar on tracks 6 & 7 

Simon Miminis 
Drums and Percussion 

Luke Doucet 
Electric Guitar on tracks 5 & 11 

Todor Kobakov 
Vibraphone, Rhodes Piano, Percussion and Drums on tracks 5, 6 & 9 


Engineered by Jeremy Darby and Julian De Corte at Canterbury Music Company Toronto 

Engineered by Todor Kobakov at Kobakov Sound Toronto 

Mixed by Todor Kobakov at Kobakov Sound Toronto 

Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling NYC 

Produced by Todor Kobakov

The Leaves of Autumn

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This is a song that was inspired by the US election and the prevailing global political landscape. Darkness is the Day was written the morning after the election results came in and it echoes the feelings of many who were shocked by them. Today is Inauguration Day and we should all be wide awake now to what lies ahead.
Produced by Aimee Bessada, Rebecca Everett and Todor Kobakov in cooperation with the Slaight Music Residency at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.
Huge thanks to James Linderman for making this happen!
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Darkness is the Day

Darkness Is The Day

Human - A song for North Korean defector and human rights activist Yeonmi Park.

LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ- HUMAN
When you think you are free
 But you’re still not free to think 
When your mind is being read 
It’s hard to draw a blank

When everything is new
 It can change your whole world view
 And how do you see it  
When you know you’ve been lied to?

You’re learning to be
 Learning to be
 Learning to be human

You would die for the regime
When you’re born to love the king 
Like a puppet on a string 
Believing they could do anything to you

A fish is not aware of water 
And will drown out in the air 
In a world that is your prison 
They say it’s way worse way out there

If you learn to count your money 
You won’t need to go to school 
People pushed against a cage 
Will learn to bend the rules

If you start to speak your mind 
You’ll be target number one 
So become so famous you cannot be hurt 
To keep on keeping on

So follow that star to freedom 
Till you become that star
That leads to books, to songs, to news, to movies
To speak to who we are

Human

Recorded on iPhone in the kitchen.  Kids in the recording.
Song written by Bob Dylan.

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With God on Our Side

The first single from the album You Will Know When It's Right by Lindy Vopnfjord.
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Artist: LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ
Album: YOU WILL KNOW WHEN IT’S RIGHT
Lindy Vopnfjord - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
With Nýdönsk
Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson - Vocals, Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson - Bass, Ólafur Hólm Einarsson - Drums and Vocals, Jón Ólafsson - Keyboards and Vocals, Stefán Hjörleifsson - Electric Guitar. 
Recorded by Addi 800 at Hljóðriti Studio, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland and Jón Ólafsson at Eyrad Studio, Reykjavik, Iceland
Mixed at by Addi 800 at Room 313, Reykjavik Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling NYC

Love Me Like That

I just wrote this song for Greta.  Just recorded on my phone.
Hope you like it.

You can take your cause to the United Nations
And they will hear you roar
You can be the voice of a generation
Like no one who has ever come before

Make sure to sing your truth
And we can all sing along
And don’t let them twist your words
To make it sound like you are wrong

There is no time to waste
There’s nothing to debate
The results are all in
And we can’t hesitate

Day will turn to night
Night will turn to day
The waters will rise
The ice will melt away

The forests will be gone
And there’ll be nothing left to save
And there’ll be nothing left to save
And there’ll be nothing left to save

Cuz we all see it coming
The whole world is on fire
The end to the earth is inevitable now
There will be no survivors

And the damage cannot be reversed
If we want to save the human race
The earth will dry up we’ll all die of thirst
If we keep running at this pace
If we keep running at this pace

The science is so alarming
Mother Nature just wants to cry
So when I start shouting
You better look me in the eye
You better look me in the eye
Look me in the eye

The rapture is upon us
But there’s no second coming this time
This is the existential crisis of our era
So don’t even say what else is on your mind

It’s a dire doomsday warning
It’s the end of all times
The battle outside is raging 
There will be no compromise

If you say you don’t believe it
We’ll make an example out of you
If you’re not with us you’re against us
And we have the power, the power of the youth

We’ll come to your door
We’ll stop you where you stand
You won’t get in the way
Of what we’ve got planned

We represent the future 
And we have the world at our command
We’ve got the focus to follow through
Don’t doubt what this will do to you

The science is so alarming
Mother Nature just wants to cry
So when I start shouting
You better look me in the eye
You better look me in the eye
Look me in the eye

Look Me In The Eye - demo

Happy Valentine's Day!
Young Waverer is available on Tuesday Feb 26th!!
The title comes from Romeo and Juliet when Romeo goes to tell the friar that he is in love with Juliet. The friar calls Romeo a Young Waverer since Romeo was only recently smitten by another girl, Rosaline. But Romeo alas is merely following his heart. And his heart has led him to Juliet.

LOVER SISTER

Written Friday May 15th, 2020 

Over and over when will this be over
When will we all see eachother again?
We miss you like sunshine, we miss you like rain
When will we all see eachother again?

We stay up all night
And we see all the stars
Can you see the full moon
From wherever you are?

In the skies there are no planes
And the birds are finally free
Freer and wilder
Than you and me

Over and over when will this be over
When will we all see eachother again?
We miss you like sunshine, we miss you like rain
When will we all see eachother again?

Friends through a lens
We all meet on a screen
Trying to stay focused
Understand what they mean

Been drinking since noon
We barely get dressed
My hair’s growing wild
My face is a mess

Over and over when will this be over
When will we all see eachother again?
We miss you like sunshine, we miss you like rain
When will we all see eachother ..again?

Trying to make conversation 
Keep things light
Think of something clever
Get the words just right

I can’t follow the news
It’s the same everyday
How can we be bored
And still so afraid

They sing me Happy Birthday 
With the neighbors on the street
From my moonlit porch
With slippers on my feet

Over and over when will this be over
When will we all see eachother again?
We miss you like sunshine, we miss you like rain
When will we all see eachother... again?

Over and over when will this be over
When will we all see eachother again?
We miss you like sunshine, we miss you like rain
When will we all see eachother….. again?

When Will We All See Each Other Again

Lindy Vopnfjörd is a Canadian-Icelandic musician with the rare ability to capture poetically in lyric and sound such profound nuance in modern stories. Humble and heroic human dramas seldom sang so spectacularly as this. Vopnfjörd is a proficient storyteller who distills human experience into the vital emotions that define a moment so crisply, and memorably. Hope, despair, triumph and loss, are feelings framed by Vopnfjörd’s sixth album, Frozen In Time, cast as a melodious folk soundtrack with a retro feel.

LINDY VOPNFJÖRÐ

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