Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)

by Melanie Horsnell

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This is such an amazing song by Lukas Nelson, I was wandering around last week looking at life and how to live, and this song wouldn't get out of my head, so just in the interest of sharing it with more people I recorded my vocals and guitar and sent it off to beautiful Michael Carpenter in lockdown for some spacious guitar swells and moods, and some mixing, and here you go. I reckon its pretty good advice and I want to live like this too, pass it along x.

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I believe that every heart is kind
Some are just a little underused
Hatred is a symptom of the times
Lost in these uneducated blues

I just wanna love you all I can
All these other thoughts have me confused
Now I don't need to try and understand
Maybe I'll get up, turn off the news

Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my neighbourhood and me
We might feel a bit less hardened
We might feel a bit more free

Turn off the news and raise the kids
Give them something to believe in
Teach them how to be good people
Give them hope that they can see
Hope that they can see
Turn off the news
And build a garden with me

Trust builds trust
All that negativity's a bust
Trust builds trust
Don't you wanna be happy?
Ohh

Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my neighbourhood and me
We might feel a bit less hardened
We might feel a bit more free

Turn off the news and raise the kids
Give them something to believe in
Teach them how to be good people
Give them hope that they can see
Hope that they can see
Turn off the news
And build a garden with me

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released July 22, 2021
Song by Lukas Nelson.

Melanie Horsnell - Vocals and classical guitar
Michael Carpenter - Electric guitar

Mixing - Michael Carpenter
Mastering - Michael Lynch

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Melanie Horsnell Candelo, Australia

“A promise of a softly lit afternoon in the company of Melanie Horsnell… with a voice of the utmost delicateness… ”
— Bernard Zuel, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age

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