New Music Monday – Corey Hart

One of the things I love about my job is getting a heads up on new music.  Imagine my 80’s heart reaction seeing there is new music today from Corey Hart.

If you grew up with a love of 80’s music like I did – you’ll appreciate this too.

First up — Corey Hart.  He’s back.  The song, Dinosaurs, a reflection on his years of struggle against back pain.

Inspired by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, who wrote the book No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, suggesting that the secret to happiness is to fully embrace pain or suffering and not run from it.

The video was filmed on location in Spain and was directed by Toronto based Peter Guzda.

About the song —

Corey says:

“I’m very grateful to still have the opportunity of sharing my music with the world. I’ve battled against debilitating chronic back pain since injuring myself in a sports trauma eighteen years ago. In plain talk — my spine has been fucked ever since.

My cervical vertebrae were fused in a surgery years ago, but I’ve rarely discussed, publicly or privately, my ongoing plight with this wickedly pernicious of enemies. In 2021, I herniated three more disks. One year later, I wrote “Dinosaurs.” I felt it was important to release this single.

We all ‘pay the ransom’ in some way, shape or form. No one gets a free ride in life.

I hope the song inspires reconciliation, courage, and even peacefulness whenever your own “dinosaurs get mad.”

When we know how to suffer, we invariably suffer much much less. I remind myself all the time whenever trapped in the “perils of my dark despair.”

No mud, no lotus flower.

So…let it roll, man.”

– Corey Hart

 

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This post was written by Carrie Buchanan