Album Diaries | You Have It
Rachel Adell, an American mother of three, living in London is releasing an album after enduring cancer and other challenges. Rachel's hope is that Saturday Sunrise will wrap its arms around you, and help you get through that next dark night, as it has for her.
Song: “You Have It”
Album: Saturday Sunrise 2023
Written: Los Angeles 2020
Topic: You have what it takes within
Brave the weather
Far from home
You come untethered
Like a poem
Rise and fall
Pull and sway
Not lost at all
Feel it beat so heavily
Tension and revelry
Holding space
You gotta breathe
I wrote this song initially in Los Angeles while living through the pandemic, but I was thinking back to when we lived in Montreal. I was experiencing serious postpartum depression in the middle of those 7 month Montreal winters-ehhh. I had intruding thoughts of ending it all. So hard to speak up about these things because you don’t want to be too heavy for anyone, but what I have found from my own experience of speaking up or wishing other people felt safe to speak up, is that it’s always always worth it. All people want is to be there for you. They feel honored you chose them to trust your heart with.
Digging low
Crawling slow
Motion spinning
Storms collide
Instincts alive
You have it in you
Alive and waiting
Hurricane swelling in your bones
Hear what you’re saying
While they throw all their diamond stones
Jump and bolt
Somewhere out there, no hat, no coat
Barefoot prints out in the snow
Naked and so vulnerable
Holding to hope
As the universe unfolds
There is a strong hopeful child inside of you who doesn’t want you to give up. There is always a way forward. Nothing lasts forever.
Some days it may seem freaking beyond possible, but hang on, that relief you’re seeking is just around the corner.
Keep breathing. Tell a trusted friend. Take a break just for you. Align your expectations. Allow yourself to let go. Keep breathing. One deep breath at a time. Ask the universe to help you. You are connected. You are capable. You have so much to look forward to. This will not last forever. You’re going to be okay. Another deep breath. You are going to be okay. You are going to be okay. You are going to be okay.
Standing there
In the falling snow
Head spinning
Storms inside
Your soul’s alive
You have it in you
Written by Rachel Adell and Craig Sayer
Produced by Craig Sayer
Album Diaries | Beautiful
Rachel Adell, an American mother of three, living in London is releasing an album after enduring cancer and other challenges. Rachel's hope is that Saturday Sunrise will wrap its arms around you, and help you get through that next dark night, as it has for her.
You slow down and see
We moved to Australia right after I had been diagnosed with cancer. The kids were little. Ten and six. Going through chemo and radiation, losing my hair, giving myself shots in the stomach, and trying not to throw up after every meal, was a bit intense. Talk about your world being flipped on its back. If you haven’t been through something massively life threatening before, I’ll give you the spoiler; it’s family. The people closest to you that become your treasures. Everything else falls to the wayside.
Sun fallin on the floor
Sitting here with me
What do I love more than
Smiling missin’ teeth
Singin’ in my nightgown
A white bird flies by
Her hair is messy
Two clouds in the sky
I wrote this song on a Saturday morning surrounded in my adorable family. I wrote what I saw. Cutest little girl singing with me, her glorious messy hair. Both of us in our night gowns just appreciating the morning sun, the clear sky, and the occasional seagull flying past the window. Stephen making breakfast, Sam dreamily staring into space on the couch. Love them all so much. I became very aware that they were my forever, my everything. My dreams had come true. The little family I had always dreamed of was right there with me.
He’s making breakfast
Pancakes in a pan
Day dreams in a t shirt
Love to watch him stand
My boy is staring into space
No eyes quite like that
Power in his thoughtful gaze
Holding the minutes
Falling through my hands
[They are my] forever and
Everything I have
Written and performed by Rachel Adell
Produced by Craig Sayer
Album Diaries | Hold On
Rachel Adell, an American mother of three, living in London is releasing an album after enduring cancer and other challenges. Rachel's hope is that Saturday Sunrise will wrap its arms around you, and help you get through that next dark night, as it has for her.
Song: “Hold On”
Album: Saturday Sunrise 2023
Written: Spanish Fork 2012
Topic: Looking for light during the darkest hours
The inspiration for this came during my separation from Stephen during our twelfth year of marriage. It was such a hard time, and I remember trembling each and every day for four months. Learning to state my needs, let alone stand up for them in a way that affected everyone around me, most especially my children, was an enormous part of me coming into my own.
Over the last decade since I wrote this song, we have been though so many difficult things together. This is a song that I wrote during a hard moment without recognizing how many future moments it would get me through. I hope it gets you through some of yours. This song definitely fits the reoccurring theme throughout this album is that the storm will end and the sun will rise again. Hold on Rachel, relief is around the corner.
The tunnel is long, full of the unknown
There is no light, can’t find my way home
Crumbling I melt, losing all sense of self
So lost and blind, folding all inside my mind
I only see red, inside of my miserable head
I wanna be free, why’s it so out of reach
Hold on, Again
Glimmering light interrupts,
I don’t wanna give up
Where’s that compass come from,
Big mystery from above
Though I’m lost at night,
Gonna keep lookin’ for light
Hold on
Lookin’ for light
Hold on
Hold on
Lookin’ for light
Hold on
Keep lookin’ for light
Written and performed by Rachel Adell
Produced by Craig Sayer
Back to You
Back to you | poem by Rachel Adell Griffith
Get back to you
Real real you
The center of you
Outside voices
Wash the brain blue
Who benefits?
I wonder,
A blunder
Pulls under
Louder you get
Ears grow red
Simmer down
The loud sounds
No more victim
Thoughts with diction
Get to work
On that Pearl
Quiet internal
Changes the world
Get back to you
Image slows
Heart flows
Keep truth close
The soul knows
