I started writing this song at the end of the summer of 2024, after performing one evening at the Lakeview Shoppes in Olcott, NY. After I finished performing, everyone was kind of making their way to the end of the boardwalk, as the sun was beginning to set over Lake Ontario. It was so beautiful that I took this photo.
Over my lifetime, I have a long history of spending time up there - at the Pirate Festival in the summer, spring and autumn spent paddling my canoe up the Eighteen Mile Creek and fishing, and in the early stages of my songwriting career, I spent a few brutally cold winters driving up there to play gigs at a restaurant called Mariner's Landing.
Inspired by a sunset, I tried to capture all four seasons within this four and a half minute song.