A Grateful Wind

by Billy Traynor

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more

about

Hey this is my first single release ever...and I'm so excited to share with you a track from my upcoming Album Release "Beauty Inside Us" on July 31st. This track is "Grateful Wind" and something I want to say about living a long life and all you get to taste in this wonderful world. And look for "Beauty Inside Us", at the end of the month...14 original tracks and a wonderful collaboration with producer and musician Nick Vandenberg!

lyrics

A Grateful Wind

I want to blow through the valley like a grateful wind
Blessed to still be flying, in the shape I’m in
Wave to each ol’ memory as I drift on past
Tasting all the kindness as a final repast

Nobody knows better all the lies I’ve told
Or the ways I went crazy as my body got old
Than the people I know that I’ve wronged in someway
The trouble from breaking big promises I made
Let me Go! Let Me Go!

Walking in those alleyways, in Allentown that night
The closest thing to heaven if you look it at it right
That line from that show that we kept singing wrong
Turns out we had it just right all along

Remember how long we were praying that night
We said we’d live on forever, together as light
That finding such love in a big universe
Was far better than having the richest man’s purse
Let it Go Let It Go

I want to blow through the valley like a grateful wind
Blessed to still be flying in the shape Im in
Blessed to still be flyin out among y’all
Blessed to still be knowing the spring and the fall
Blessed to still be feeling the sun and the rain
Blessed to still be feeling all the joys and the pain…

I want to blow through the valley like a grateful wind
Blessed to still be flying, in the shape I’m in
Let me wave to each memory as I float on past
Let me taste of all the kindness as a final repast
And, Go…… And, Go

credits

released July 3, 2020
Words and Music by Billy Traynor
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Vandenberg

Billy Traynor: vocals, acoustic guitar
Nick Vandenberg: bass, drums, organ, acoustic and electric guitar

license

about

Billy Traynor Saxapahaw, North Carolina

Billy is originally from Lawrence MA and now lives in Saxapahaw NC with his partner Frankie and dog Mayzie...and has two great kids and their partners and one stellar grandkid and assorted somehow other related and he loves em all

Facebook

contact / help

Contact Billy Traynor

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Billy Traynor, you may also like:

Echo Dancing
by Alejandro Escovedo

The legendary Alejandro Escovedo returns with another country-rock scorcher. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2024
go to album
24th Street Blues
by Tom Heyman

Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2023
go to album
An Evening at Macri Park
by Seán Barna

Singer-songwriter Seán Barna writes a moving and tuneful character study of the dimly-lit Brooklyn queer bar. Bandcamp New & Notable May 18, 2023
go to album
Turn My Radio Up
by The Coffis Brothers

Big, sunny country songs from this Santa Cruz duo summon the spirit of late-period Byrds. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2022
go to album
False Spring
by Zachary Cale

Thoughtful and poetic folk with a Cosmic Americana flavor from the Brooklyn singer-songwriter. Bandcamp New & Notable May 14, 2020
go to album
the happiest man on earth
by Michael VM

Rollicking roots music from Michael VM, “the happiest man on earth” is equal parts grit and soul. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 11, 2017
go to album
Are You Gone
by Sarah Harmer

The Canadian singer-songwriter and environmental activist excels at helping to find a silver lining; everything is transitory, but that doesn’t mean it’s unsurmountable. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 18, 2020
go to album