Album Diaries | Found Me
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: “Found Me”
Album: Saturday Sunrise 2023
Written: Los Angeles & South Dakota 2021
Cowrite with Nancy Gonseth
Topic: When a friend finds you
I cowrote this with a dear friend, Nancy Gonseth, whom I met within my music tribe, Catch the Moom, 6FS. The biggest takeaway has been the community and the cowrites, and the inevitable connections after that. She and I wanted to write a song that explained how special it was to have the mentor we did. Michael Averill was incredibly present and sensitive to our needs, and the needs of our songs as well.
Walls soft
Come in
Door wide open
Where we like to be
Right here
You and me
It’s weird
Shy normally
Do I know I’m safe
Giving love away
Pulled to where you are
Pouring light on my scars
You found me
Hidden in my heart
There are special poeple in this world who have the gift of allowing you to be seen. You feel safe in their warmth and light. In all your shortcomings and insecurities, they appreciate you for you. When you try and fail, they are there. They don’t judge, they don’t make you feel less than, they let you be wherever you are. And in many cases when these wonderful people have entered my life I was at my lowest, weakest, and most vulnerable. Now that I have these kinds of people in my life, it’s pretty easy for me to throw up boundaries for the kind of people who would not appreciate my tenderness and heart. I hope you do that as well. There are people in this world who will see more of your light than you will, those are the people you need to be with. Don’t keep trying to convince or fit in with people unplug the drain every time their around.
A road from low to high
Good laughs and good cries
Soul open and so bare
Rushed to me
You were right there
It’s weird
I’m usually scared
Do I know I’m safe
Giving love away
Pulled to where you are
Pouring light on my scars
You found me
Hidden in my heart
Oh the gems
How you made ‘em glow
Remind me of what I know
New chamber in my heart
Evolving work of art
Written by Rachel Adell and Nancy Gonseth
Produced by Craig Sayer
Album Diaries | Okay
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.
This song was inspired from the day I fainted at the hospital, and woke up with an oxygen mask on my face. The nurse was petting my head and saying over and over, “It’s going to be okay.” I hung onto every syllable of every word of that repeated sentence until it brought me back to consciousness. That statement was so grounding, comforting, and hopeful to me. Sometimes we need a reminder that a horrible moment is not going to last forever. Knowing relief is on the way can be exactly what we need to keep holding on. To this day, I use this mantra to ground myself.
Blurry mind
Empty shell
Some days
Turn into hell
Eyes hazy
Someone there
Whispered softly
Through my hair
It’s gonna be okay
It’s gonna be okay
I know it doesn’t seem like it now
But give it time to settle down
It’s gonna be okay
Medicate
and they radiate
Wrote down the words
I wanted to say
Didn’t know if I
Would live or die
Something said
To me inside
You’re gonna be okay
Watch news
Spread fear
Make storms
Every year
But that old machine
It won’t destroy
Cause love is louder
Than the noise
We’re gonna be okay
Written and performed by Rachel Adell
Harmonies by Georgina Sayer, fellow cancer survivor
Produced by Craig Sayer