Mike Bern Gives Thanks For Life In “Grateful Sun”
Through good times and bad, hot and cold, dazzling and dim, there is one constant on this giant rock we call earth – the sun. In Mike Bern’s newest single, “Grateful Sun,” the award-winning artist pays homage to that which always ignites.
The Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick-based singer/songwriter, decided to do something a little different with this one.
“The world can be a dark place at times,” Bern explained. “I wanted to write a song that gave thanks to life itself.”
Underneath ethereal instrumentals with an indie twist, Bern serenades the sun from our universal human perspective, encapsulating our relationship with life’s shining necessity. Bern touches on the hardships we all face and how the sun acts as a foil to the darkness, infinitely illuminating for brighter days.
“You take the fall
Under the sunlight
Time is precious
Oh no no
Don’t go home
Don’t go home.”
While we never want the sun to disappear, it does every night. But without fail, it is back in the morning, and we can put the pieces back together again when it returns. We’re always “trying to escape the dark,” as Bern eloquently explains, and there isn’t anything that does it quite like the sun, and for that, we are grateful. Bern gives thanks to the sun for all it does – nothing matches the consistency of our galaxy’s shining star.
“Grateful Sun” is Bern’s follow-up to his previous dual singles, “Ancestors” and “Shrine of Shirl,” which both hit the top five of the Indigenous Music Countdown.
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