"Tiny Lights" to guide us on our way in year 2023. My song just released - as Christmas present and New Year wish.

There's something that is always there - truth and the stars, whether you see them or not. Some do, some don't.

My music producer made a Christmas present for me today (today is Ukrainian Christmas). They released one of my songs - called “Tiny Lights” - as a single on Apple Music, Spotify and other platforms.

The cover for the single was made out of the picture that I took from the spot on the Ottawa river where I composed this song, overlaid with the picture of the stars from the tale that I wrote for my children called “Волопас i Corona Borealis” about the most beautiful marriage of constellations: Boötes, called Sheppard (Волопас) in Russian) and Corona Borealis (shown enlarged in image below) , who, despite speaking two different languages (English and Russian), fall in love with each other, making the equilateral triangle of unbelievable precision and beauty that now shines above us (in Northern hemisphere, attached as fidget spinner to the handle of Big Dipper) as a monument of true eternal love.

The song arrived spontaneously, as I was walking along the river on one of those starry nights looking at the lights on the other side of the river and hearing the music on the other side of the universe.

The lyrics came in Russian , so translation is provided.
The melody came from the heart, so it does not need translation…
Enjoy! And Happy new year 2023!
May you find your own star and may it guide you on your way in year 2023!

Special thanks to Algion - for mixing the tracks and pictures, and my brother - for playing it on our home piano.

Tiny lights
(Music and Lyrics: Dmitry Gorodnichy)

Tiny lights, tiny lights
shine for us like little stars
at this late hour from the windows
of the houses on the other side of the river.
Tiny lights, tiny lights
also shine for us from the sky
we can see them shining far from there
even though those houses there are so far from here

And between them and us,
there’s a river with sleeping banks. -
And between them and us,
there’s the universe full of poetry.

And you only need to look inside there
to see everything to start transforming -
Where there used to be a flow daily worries
you'll find piece and eternity.

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Огоньки
(Музыка и слова: Дмитрий Городничий)

Огоньки, огоньки
Словно маленькие звёзды
Там не спят хоть очень поздно
На другом берегу реки

Огоньки, огоньки
И на небе тоже светят
Мы их видим в домах этих
Хоть они очень далеки

А между ними и нами
Река с сонными берегами
А между ними и нами
Вселенная наполненная стихами

И стоит только посмотреть туда
Как сразу всё приобразится
Там где текла дневных забот вода
Звёздный покой и вечность отразится