Wonder Of It All

Album: Nothing But Time (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • This ode to the natural world was written by Steve Bardwil, who was an attorney before forming his Steve Bardwil Band in 2014. When he appeared on the Songfacts Podcast in 2025, he talked about what inspired the song.

    "About 10 years ago I moved up to a home situated in the Santa Monica Mountains," he said. "There's deer and a lot of wildlife around here and it's just so peaceful. My mental state kind of changed."

    "I took a trip to Bora Bora, which was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen," he added. "And flying over Alaska you can look down and see what the Earth looked like before man got involved: There's no roads cut in anywhere, there's no lights at night. When you fly from the East Coast to the West Coast there are squares or different geometric designs that the roads make and that the farms make, and you can see how humans have kind of scarred what was otherwise the pristine surface of the Earth. You fly over remote areas like Alaska and there's just nothing except beauty and the surface of the Earth as it was before man did all that.

    I feel like nature is Wi-Fi for the brain. When I'm in a nature setting, my mind goes to places and I think about things in a different way. But there's no roaming charges and there's no buffering: It's just constant, perfect reception."
  • "Wonder Of It All" was released on the 2025 album Nothing But Time as the second single, following "Magic Night In Paris." The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli, who won a Grammy in 2023 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his engineering/mixing work Michael Bublé's Higher. He also has a collection of Latin Grammy Awards for his work with Juanes.

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