Lynette Diaz Music — Songs, Demos & Lyrics

Music by Lynette Diaz

Browse an ever-expanding collection of original songs, demos and instrumentals — all written, performed and engineered by Lynette Diaz. Every entry below combines a short backstory with lyrics, session notes and a player, letting you trace how a simple idea grows into a finished recording.

Wake Up, Wake Up! artwork inspired by the original Butterflies instrumental — Wake Up, Wake Up! grew from the Butterflies instrumental

Guitar and sheet music cover for Lynette Diaz songs — Songs and lyrics from the catalogue

The 82A Sunday Session recording — The 82A Sunday Session

Wake Up, Wake Up!

This track began life as a bare instrumental called "Butterflies (If Nothing Ever Changed)" — a reminder that music is a wonderfully transforming process. The current demo was recorded on 19 December 2025, while the original instrumental demo was composed and engineered on 21 October 2025.

Wake Up, Wake Up! Play the Demo

Lyrics

Wake up, go out, feel the cool earth underneath your feet, underneath your feet, and breathe. Simple does it, simple matter — listen to the breeze or elemental things, 'cause Mother Nature sings. Heading nowhere, we're already somewhere, we're already free, dancing endlessly, we're energetic beings. Wake up, wake up, see the stars that fill the sky, kiss of sun at daylight rise; hold your heart, or hold a hand, say a prayer, sing a song, trust yourself — we all belong. Wake up, go out, feel the cool earth underneath your feet, underneath your feet, and breathe. Life is so much more than what we bargained for, but believe — we are free, we are free!

Take A Step Forward (And Go)

Released 09/27/2019, this upbeat number is best summed up as an uplifting song about courage. Production, sound engineering, instruments and vocals are all handled by Lynette Diaz, with the lyrics and music written on 29 May 2026 beneath a Flower Full Moon.

Take A Step Forward (And Go) Buy Album Play the Single

Lyrics

Fears aside, false obligations out the door; time to ride, the magic carpet's where you'll soar. Chorus: take a step forward, take a step forward, take a step forward, and go. You're the rocket, breakin' free; high above you're likin' exactly what you'll see. Bridge: here's the spark, here's the flame, here is where you'll smile again.

Wellington Demo Session (2018/2019)

A set of tunes engineered and recorded in Wellington throughout 2018 and 2019.

Wellington Demo Session

Cormorant photographed in Wellington in 2018 — Wellington, 2018

Long view of Rapaki near Wellington — Rapaki long view

Wellington harbour scene from the demo session era — Harbour moments

Flowers and a bench at Lyall Bay in 2018 — Lyall Bay flowers and bench

Sumner Beach in February 2018 — Sumner Beach, February 2018

Curiosity (2019 Demo)

Find a map and point your finger, find your curiosity — that world is not a big bad place, it's flesh and bones like you and me. Digging deep we'll find the treasure: hidden truths, philosophy, excavating buried knowledge leading to our quickening. Bridge: soon we'll learn to love ourselves, then begin to love our neighbours — great blue ball of many people, courage to embrace us all.

Play Curiosity

Freedom Is A Road (2019 Demo)

Oh those hours when darkness sets in, troubles fill your head and make it spin, wishing the dawn would light up the sky and drive your struggles away in the blink of an eye. Chorus: freedom is a road to the other side. Loving what is means doing without all the baggage that leaves you in doubt — freeing your mind, living in kind, being your truth, living no lies.

Play Freedom Is A Road

Headlights (2018 Demo)

Play Headlights

All Is Fine (2018 Electric Mix)

All is fine when we're in time — when you wake and light shines through the blinds, when the day is done and you close your weary eyes. Do you grasp the wonders of what you've seen? What is past makes way for what will be. When you look into your lover's eyes, holding hands on that long train ride, in your heart you'll know what this day brings and make real all your hopes and dreams. Bridge: can you remember just how you feel inside, right now?

Play All Is Fine

How Do You Make A Great Love? (Electric Demo 2019)

How do you make a great love, and how do you keep things flowing like the calmest seas, keeping the tempest away? Why do we make it harder than it has to be — we can keep our dignity and our sanity; there's a way to be, just be. I used to think I walked upon solid ground until the walls came down; structures I called my own crumbled fast, leaving ruins in my path. Bridge: here's my tabula rasa of growth possibilities, a different kind of lightness washing over me.

Play How Do You Make A Great Love?

My Truth (Demo 2018)

I speak my truth not because I want to but because I have to — that's what I do. How's about you? I'm not here just for breathing, not here just to earn a buck, not here for playing games or hoping for a little luck. I'm gonna be me in this world, don't want to be stuck; I'm gonna free me. I'm looking for salvation but not looking to be saved — salvation comes from inside.

Play My Truth

Everyday Song (2019 Demo)

Everybody needs an everyday song to get you through the everyday throng of birth and death and in-between, for most of us the average scene. Chorus: everyone goes away. Everyday I build a karmic bridge to links with people all around; good or evil, I forge a trail I have to walk along. It's not unusual at the end of the day to feel spent and needy in some way. Can't blame others when you've lost the glow — the way you play or treat your soul, toil and tumble and fall in line, losing track of what's divine.

Play Everyday Song

All songs in this session were written, recorded and engineered by Lynette Diaz on various dates across 2018–2019.

The Redwood Demo Session (2018)

A century-old redwood stands in the Christchurch Botanical Garden. Struck by lightning and having weathered major earthquakes, it will endure for many hundreds of years to come. "Solace" is a hopeful, inspired instrumental about grief, love and growth, composed, performed, recorded and engineered by Lynette Diaz in February 2018.

The Redwood Demo Session Play Solace

The century-old redwood in Christchurch Botanical Garden — The redwood that inspired Solace

Nature detail photographed in 2018 — Eye of the beholder

Autumn colours and greenery from the garden session — Garden inspiration

The New Moon Session (April 2018)

Creative inspiration was in full flow: an afternoon spent admiring the autumn colours as a self-confessed tree hugger led to coming home and writing and recording "Fresh Eyes (I'm Doing Fine)".

The New Moon Session Play Fresh Eyes

See the world with fresh eyes, sunlight streaming inward.