Michelle Bond approaches songwriting with a painter’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s grasp of life’s quiet transitions. On “It’s Another Year,” the San Francisco-based visual artist and musician creates an acoustic meditation that captures time’s steady march with delicate precision.
The arrangement unfolds like watercolors bleeding into paper, each verse adding new hues to the composition. Bond’s background as a visual artist manifests in her careful attention to imagery, particularly in lines like “waiting for that rainbow / to bring in our dreams” and “lets reach for the stars / they are far they are far.” Her vocal delivery treats these repetitions not as mere echoes but as brushstrokes building toward a complete picture.
The song’s structure mirrors its themes of cyclical change, beginning with “its another year / here we are again” before expanding into deeper reflections on growth: “kids are growing / inch by inch year by year.” Bond’s lyrics trace life’s gradual transformations while maintaining an optimistic outlook, particularly evident in the closing refrain “we can start… let us soar / to the stars to the stars / and soar way higher….afar.”
From her San Francisco design studio, where she typically crafts gardens and landscapes, Bond has cultivated a different kind of growth with this track. “It’s Another Year” demonstrates how personal expression can transform everyday observations into universal touchstones, creating a gentle reminder that change, while constant, carries its own particular beauty.
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