
ABOUT RESTLESS WORLD
Restless World Music is music without boundaries.
Just like the constantly-evolving mix of different cultures in the world around us, songs by Restless World Music blend different musical elements, styles, and genres.
Additionally, in Restless World songs, melody resides not only in musical notes, but in the sounds, syllables, and shades of meaning of each word in the lyrics.
Songs by Restless World have been described as "smartly crafted" (see Press page).
Curious? Listen to the music and see what you think. If you like what you hear, get in touch (see Contact page).
Why "Restless World" Music?
The name is inspired by the world around us, in which an ever-moving ocean of events, people, and beliefs shape each day.
We sail like ships on this ocean, trying to navigate the waves that each day brings.
On good days, we glide through it all with ease and feel alive. On not-so-good days, we fight the waves to stay afloat.
Songs can tell this story, and in telling it, can take us on a journey – through joy, sorrow, and a thousand emotions in between.
Hopefully, we listen, hear something that moves us, and feel alive.
Words for the journey
The best songwriters chose words that take us on a journey and stay with us – long after their songs have ended.
Here are a few favorites:
“Tears in my eyes burn, tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting, while I'm waiting for my turn” – Bob Marley, “Waiting in Vain” “Reggae music Sends me in a fever My blood pressure high Yet I don't want no doctor” – David Hinds (from Steel Pulse), “Reggae Music” “The days roll by like thunder Like a storm that's never breaking All my time and space compressed in the low pressure of proceedings” – Ben Watt (from Everything But The Girl), “Five Fathoms” “Back on the train I ask why did I come again Can I confess I've been hanging 'round your old address And the years have proved To offer nothing since you moved You're long gone But I can't move on And I miss you Like the deserts miss the rain” – Tracey Thorn (from Everything But The Girl), “Missing” “And it’s hard for me to take a stand When I would take her any way I can” – John Mayer, “Neon” “So forget it You're feeling lyrically energetic So I sentence you to death by use of poetics” – Kurupt, verse from “Sooo Much Style” “I don't want another night of trying to find another you, another rock bottom I don't wanna wear another mini dress to impress a potential problem” – Ali Tamposi, Emily Warren, Carl Rosen, watt and Louis Bell (for Rita Ora), “Only Want You” “The less we talk The more we're stuck in conversations shallow enough to drown in Silence that feels like shouting” – Adam Yaron, David Weinstein, Jake Bennett, Lev Freedman and Michael Dunaief (for Lev), “The Less We Talk” |
“But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad In the stillness of remembering What you had and what you lost and what you had and what you lost” – Stevie Nicks (from Fleetwood Mac), “Dreams” “Never to be wrong Never to make promises that break It's like singing in the wind Or writing on the surface of a lake” – Sting, “Be Still My Beating Heart” “Sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion” – Sting, “Be Still My Beating Heart” “I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times An endless, turning stairway climbs to a tower of souls” – Sting, “A Thousand Years” “The clouds were like dark riders Flying on the face of the moon” – Sting, “Something the Boy Said” “Would your eyes, like midnight fireflies Light up the trenches where my heart lies” – Sarah McLachlan, “Train Wreck” “Here’s a simplification of everything we’re going through: You plus me is bad news” – Sara Bareilles, “Love On the Rocks” “One more Hail Mary But you don't really know about such things, now do you Does the sound of my voice still carry Any kind of message still important to you” – Michael McDonald, “Hail Mary” “Trying to light a match in the rain Like flying a kite in a hurricane Like riding a bike with no air or chain on a broken road, it’s a losing game” – Alec Benjamin, Alex Hope and Scott Friedman (for Alec Benjamin), “Match in the Rain” |