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Stardust

from Us Vs by Vina After Dark

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The most immersive song on our latest EP (Us Vs), "Stardust" opens the listener's soundscape with absorbing guitar melodies, harmonics and high vocals, creating a feeling of travelling from streetlights to moon to dreamy outer space. An intentional lack of bass (a departure from other songs on the EP) sets an ethereal tone that remains full-bodied and rhythmic. At the end of a long relationship, I wrote "Stardust" to encapsulate the sense of home I'd been waiting for, all my life.

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STARDUST
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (September 5, 2018)


I’m
sitting here sipping my coffee on a
sunny balcony. Not
wondering where I gotta go or
who I’ve got to be. The
autumn wind carries the smell of
earth and dirt and leaves.

Ooh,
birds swooping,
children laughing,
the moon is swaying,
streetlights drooping
across a canopy of
a city sleeping and
I am dreaming of

stars and galaxies
swirling around me.
The particles I breathe are
deep within me. I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust… I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust…

I’m
reaching out my window catching
drops of silver rain, like
shooting stars they fall as arrows and
revive once again. The
rhythm of my heart fades and
swells to your name.

Ooh,
birds swooping,
children laughing,
the moon is swaying,
streetlights drooping
across a canopy of
a city sleeping and
I am dreaming of

stars and galaxies
swirling around me.
The particles I breathe are
deep within me. I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust… I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust…

credits

from Us Vs, released June 30, 2020
Songwriting/Vocals/Production: Vina Nguyen
Instrumentation/Production: Dafydd James

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Vina After Dark’s warm siren vocals will raise goosebumps across your skin as you head-nod to chilled out drums, groovy bass, and ethereal, crying guitar lines.

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