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The first single from my upcoming 2015 release!

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Chasing The Sky.

Night alarm going off
At one thirty o’clock
just the dog and me
Hadn’t even known how 
Until now
And I don’t feel a thing
Where it all used to be
So,
Don’t get ahead of me
Don’t draw a line
I’ll  change trajectory 
Make our way back to sea
Sirens alarming
hitting so hard
fits to me
and the stories you’ve told
They said everything 
So, 
Don’t get ahead of me
Don’t draw a line
 I’ll change trajectory 
Make our way back to sea

dog and me

This piece began as a reflection on age, wonder, and the universe. It carries the bittersweet truth that some of us may not live to see the answers we’ve always longed for the moment the sky finally “answers back.”

But it’s also a message of hope. Our place isn’t measured only by lifetimes. It’s carried forward in the songs we write, in the questions we refuse to let go of, and in the wonder we pass down.

The closing nod to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star reminds us that curiosity is timeless from the child’s lullaby to the elder’s last reflection, we are joined by a shared yearning to understand.

This isn’t just about stars. It’s about legacy, belonging, and the truth that even if we don’t grow into tomorrow ourselves, a part of us will.

Some of us are too late in the day
To see the gates swing open
To watch the sky answer back

But we’ve left our fingerprints
On the glass of the telescope
Our breath fogging the lens
For the next set of eyes

The truth is our place
Isn’t just measured in lifetimes
It’s carried forward in songs
In questions that refuse to die
In the wonder we hand down

So even if I don’t grow into that tomorrow
A part of me will
In the echoes, in the chords
In the starlight that remembers
We once asked

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Oh, how we wonder

Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
How I wonder what you are

Oh how we wonder
What you are

Yes we wonder

Footnote to the Stars

That Fateful Day

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leaving it all unsaid
keeping it quiet instead
you know that i won’t explain 
cause i’ve grown to need this pain

you tell me it’s good for now
i’ll heal but i don’t know 
safe in the way we touch
but it hurts to feel this much

and they say that it goes so i hope that it shows
you are all that i’ve known for a while
and i’m coming up slow and i’m thinking of home
but you’re all that i’ve known for a while

spending our nights awake
silent for both our sake 
hold me until i’m strong
cause i’ll miss this when you’re gone

and they say that it goes so i hope that it shows
you are all that i’ve known for a while
and i’m coming up slow and i’m thinking of home
but you’re all that i’ve known for a while

i’d tell you but i can’t 
please don’t make this hard
time is all i want
so speak the words i won’t 

and they say that it goes so i hope that it shows
you are all that i’ve known for a while
and i’m coming up slow and i’m thinking of home
but you’re all that i’ve known for a while.

Thousand (feat. Lisa Hannigan)

Rosie Carney

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