Halifax-based award-winning singer-songwriter (and social media innovator) Dave Carroll, best known for his world-famous song, “United Breaks Guitars,” has released a new video today. His new song, “When The World Stop Ending” is a challenge to re-examine your priorities, whatever matters most, and how you want to invest the time that you have, particularly as we all imagine how to move forward in a post-COVID world. If nothing else, we’ve been given a big shake-up and a reminder to carpe diem.
Naturally, Carroll had to get a head start on carpe’ing said diem. When it came time to craft the song and video, he couldn’t wait for the world to start turning again, and so he turned to our new collective office space to get some work done. He met up with musician, producer and songwriter Jamie Robinson via Zoom to sort out the details and lyrics.
“Over the past few months, I’ve had a chance to reflect and work on some new music. In the process, Jamie Robinson and I wrote a timely song called ‘When The World Stops Ending’. We wrote the song over Zoom, recorded our parts in isolation and Josh Parlee edited the video from London. No one was ever in the same room together for this project,” says Carroll.
The challenges of the pandemic, among many other things, has alerted many to what should have been an obvious and universal fact: we are all in the same boat. From Carroll’s perspective, it’s also an opportunity to rethink how we approach our problems.
“At a time when people have been reviewing their priorities, renewing family relationships and seeing themselves in the faces of both loved ones and strangers, the purpose of this song is to encourage listeners to remember that everyone in the world has more in common with each other than they do not,” says Carroll. “I believe that hope, resilience and compassion are choices we continue to have at our disposal.”