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Jack Johnson

Constellations

Release date: 1st March 2005

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A childhood scene unfolds in amber light: children skipping stones, their voices carrying across water as the sun drops into the west. Jack Johnson watches from beneath a Kamani tree, waiting for rain, whilst overhead the stars emerge to tell their ancient stories. The song moves between the immediate and the timeless, between a single evening and the constellations that have guided humans across centuries. What begins as a portrait of natural beauty deepens into something more layered. The stars become a refuge, a way of stepping back from the world's noise and change. Johnson's narrator and the children around him draw their own patterns in the sky, making meaning from what they see, finding in those stories a kind of escape or anchor. The song settles into this quiet act of looking up, of listening to what the night has to say.

"Constellations" is a track by Jack Johnson, from the album In Between Dreams, released 1st March 2005. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Constellations

[Verse 1]

The light was leaving, in the west it was blue

The children's laughter sang

And skipping just like the stones they threw

Their voices echoed across the waves

It's getting late

[Chorus]

It was just another night

With a sunset and a moonrise not so far behind

To give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars

Listen to Papa's translations of the stories across the sky

We drew our own constellations

[Verse 2]

The west winds often last too long

And when they calm down nothing ever feels the same

Sheltered under the Kamani tree

Waiting for the passing rain

Clouds keep moving to uncover the sea

Of stars up above us chasing the day away

To find the stories that we sometimes need

Listen close enough, all else fades

Fades away

[Chorus]

It was just another night

With a sunset and a moonrise not so far behind

To give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars

Listen to all the translations of the stories across the sky

We drew our own constellations

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Track details

From In Between Dreams

2005
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Album
In Between Dreams
In Between Dreams
Jack Johnson
Release year
2005
  1. —Belle
  2. —Situations
  3. —Banana Pancakes
  4. —Staple It Together
  5. —Constellations
  6. —Do You Remember
  7. —No Other Way
  8. —Breakdown
  9. —Never Know
  10. —Crying Shame
  11. —If I Could

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