Track By Tracks: Woodhawk - Love Finds A Way (2025)

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

It’s a journey through the last couple of years. All of us went through some hard times, and to no surprise, the pandemic wasn’t much better! We weren’t really sure if we would continue being a band or not. But we prevailed and are stronger than ever. It’s about love and friendship. And getting through things together. Checking in on your loved ones and friends.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. Grave Shaker – This one is about change. Growth through the years. And sometimes you outgrow the patterns you were in, the people you surrounded yourself and the habits you had. It’s an evolution. It can be very uncomfortable to change who you are. It’s a huge leap of vulnerability. But being true to yourself and keeping your head up.

2. Stranger Ever After – Through changes and growth, sometimes you lose people along the way who were once very close to you. Be it a partner, spouse, friend, etc. Someone who was once your closest person can become the opposite if you grow in different directions. And maybe after all, we were just better off being Strangers.

3. Truth Be Told – This was a breakthrough of just saying how I felt. Up until this point, I wasn’t being honest with myself on how I felt, who I was, and who I wanted to be. This is kind of a farewell to the past and a welcome to the future. Sometimes the truth hurts.

4. White Crosses – This is the death of a friend, relationship, or even marriage. ‘How did we end up here? Is this what we hoped for?’ No one ever expects to go their separate ways. No one gets into something with the plan to get out. And through any separation or grief, you pass these moments and memories along the way. Sort of like the little white crosses we see planted along the roadside where someone lost their life. Little reminders of what was. Gone but not forgotten.

5. The Unholy Hand – The remnants of something fallen and destroyed, only to be built back up again. This higher power, which yields good or bad. All within and without our control.

6. No Place For Hate – This one is a little more on the nose. The world we live in feels like it has just become more filled with hate, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and bigotry. We all have 0 tolerance for this. We try not to ever be a political band, but this just felt really important to us and flowed naturally. Love one another. It’s way harder to hate than it is to love.

7. Love Finds a Way – This was a triumphant song that was a coming-of-age for us. Love is at the heart of everything. And if you love something, set it free. It will come back to you if it’s meant to be. This really embodied so much of how I felt and how we as a band felt. We had to hit a bit of a pause on our band to see if we still wanted to do it. Lots had changed and were still changing. But at the end of the day, we are 3 very close friends, and that is so important to us. We felt like our love for each other really kept us together, and we found a way for all of us. We are genuinely closer as friends than ever before.

8. Relapser – This was an honest take on feeling like you have grown up and evolved, and become better. At the same time, to feel like you easily fall into old habits and patterns again that you tried so hard to escape. It drags you back down, and it feels like you must start all over again.

9. Killing Time – It started as a lot of self-reflection and feeling quite lost. I felt really gaslit in a previous relationship, and it took me a while to really snap out of it and see what was going on. But also trying to navigate my way back to who I am and who we are as people. Does anyone care? Do I still care? Or are we just killing time? I really wanted this to be a farewell to the old and a door opening to what was ahead. And if it was the last song people ever heard of our band, then I felt it was the best way to possibly say goodbye.

Listen to "Relapser" at the following links:

YouTube - https://youtu.be/30HZOF1hRlk

Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3RQO83S

Album pre-order: https://woodhawk.bandcamp.com