To The Stars

Album: Red Light, Green Light (2022)
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  • Although Vonda Shepard wrote and recorded her Red Light, Green Light album - produced by her husband, Mitchell Froom - during the COVID-19 pandemic, she told Songfacts that this track is her only "pandemic song." She explained:

    "When I wrote the first line, 'Breathe the air I forgot was there,' I knew I was on to something. The song is about how we are literally trapped in our houses, but the chorus has these uplifting lyrics:

    To the stars, we will fly
    To heaven and Mars, not so far


    Originally I had the line, 'in our minds,' but I decided that people could figure that out. The end of the song has Mitchell's absolutely enchanting keyboards solo-ed, so you can really hear the magic he's creating. That is one of my favorite parts of the album. It's made for dreamers... and astrophysicists."
  • Shepard explained how the pandemic influenced the making of the album. "It took a massive amount of discipline to go through this process," she said, "but the isolation actually lent itself to going deep into the writing."

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