Roses
Lead vocalist Dani Austin is the driving force behind the lyrics of the Creek Band’s just-released original song titled “Roses.” Recently, I asked Dani about how the song came to be, and she told me the story.
“Since getting into songwriting, I’ve come to realize that I’m an all or nothing kind of person. I always start with a topic or idea that I want to write about, and then I either stare blankly at the paper for an hour, jotting down random notes and phrases, or I can’t get my pen to move fast enough because the words are coming so fast. When I sat down to write Roses, the words just kind of poured out of me - I think because what I was writing about was so personal to me. (Now I’ve come to realize that my best songs are the ones that come out naturally.)”
Dani continues, “As I was growing up, I always had “adults” telling me to appreciate time because as I got older, the years would start going by faster and faster. Naturally, I didn’t start realizing how true that was until I entered my 20s. One day I got stuck in a sort of mental rabbit hole thinking about time really was starting to fly by. Six months since I joined the band, two years since getting married, 4 years since graduating college. It honestly had me reeling which, not uncommonly for me, led to a panic attack. After it passed, I was left feeling angry about time, and how it can’t be slowed down or paused no matter how much we want it to. How no matter what, minutes are going to go by, and we have no control over that. From that anger, Roses was written.
That feeling of being dragged along without control, “...like a wind-up toy, but someone else holds the key.”
The guys put together music that really matched the angst and rushed feeling that I was trying to get across with this song. I think I speak for all of us saying that we’re really proud of this song as the first song Creek wrote together.”
We love “Roses”, and we hope you do too!
