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Music by Lynette Diaz

Dive into a growing collection of original songs, demos and instrumentals — all written, performed and engineered by Lynette Diaz. Every release below comes with its own story, lyrics and recording notes.

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

Lynette Diaz guitar and sheet music cover — Songs and sheet music

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

Wake Up, Wake Up!

This track began as a simple instrumental called "Butterflies (If Nothing Ever Changed)" — a reminder of how music shifts and grows as it passes through us. Runtime: 04:31.

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Lyrics

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

Notes

Current demo recording: 19 December 2025
Original instrumental demo "Butterflies, If Nothing Ever Changed": recorded and engineered 21 October 2025

Take A Step Forward (And Go)

Out since 09/27/2019, this upbeat number is best summed up as an uplifting song about courage. Runtime: 02:20.

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Lyrics

Fears aside, false obligations out the door. Time to ride — the magic carpet's where you'll soar. Take a step forward, take a step forward, take a step forward and go. You're the rocket breaking free, high above, liking exactly what you'll see. Here's the spark, here's the flame, here is where you'll smile again.

Notes

Single release: 27 September 2026
Production, sound engineering, instruments and vocals: Lynette Diaz
Lyrics and music: Lynette Diaz, written 29 May 2026 on a Flower Full Moon

Wellington Demo Session (2018/2019)

A set of songs recorded and engineered in Wellington through 2018 and 2019.

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Cormorant photographed in Wellington in 2018 — Wellington, 2018

Long view of Rapaki in 2018 — Rapaki long view

Wellington scene captured by Lynette Diaz — Wellington moments

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

Sumner Beach in February 2018 — Sumner Beach, February 2018

Redwood tree, a mystery to me, 2018 — Redwood, a mystery to me

Eye of the beholder photograph, 2018 — Eye of the beholder

Wellington demo session photograph — Session memories

Photograph from the Wellington years — Wellington years

Bendito sea Dios, grandmothers photograph — Bendito sea Dios

Curiosity (2019 Demo)

Runtime: 02:55. Play Curiosity

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 and philosophy, excavating buried knowledge that leads to our quickening. Soon we'll learn to love ourselves, then begin to love our neighbours — a great blue ball of many people, courage to embrace us all.

Freedom Is A Road (2019 Demo)

Runtime: 03:20. Play Freedom Is A Road

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

Headlights (2018 Demo)

Runtime: 02:43. Play Headlights

All Is Fine (2018 Electric Mix)

Runtime: 04:20. Play All Is Fine

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, your heart knows what this day brings and makes real all your hopes and dreams. Can you remember just how you feel inside, right now?

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

Runtime: 02:34. Play How Do You Make A Great Love?

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 on solid ground until the walls came down and structures I called my own crumbled fast, leaving ruins in my path. Here's my tabula rasa of growth possibilities, a different kind of lightness washing over me.

My Truth (Demo 2018)

Runtime: 03:54. Play My Truth

I speak my truth not because I want to but because I have to — that's what I do. How 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 going to be me in this world, not stuck; I'm going to free me. I'm looking for salvation but not looking to be saved — salvation comes from inside, not from that grave.

Everyday Song (2019 Demo)

Runtime: 03:54. Play Everyday Song

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. Everyone goes away. Every day 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, feeling passed along on that conveyor belt of human struggle and pained self-doubt. 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.

Notes

All songs written, recorded and engineered by Lynette Diaz
Recorded on various dates, 2018–2019

The Redwood Demo Session (2018)

In Christchurch Botanical Garden stands a 100-year-old redwood — struck by lightning and a survivor of major earthquakes — that will remain for many hundreds of years to come. "Solace" is a hopeful, inspired instrumental exploring grief, love and growth. Runtime: 02:25.

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Notes

Original instrumental demo composed, performed, recorded and engineered by Lynette Diaz, February 2018

The New Moon Session (April 2018)

Inspiration was flowing freely: time spent as a tree hugger soaking in the autumn colours led to writing and recording "Fresh Eyes (I'm Doing Fine)". Runtime: 03:10.

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See the world with fresh eyes, sunlight streaming inward.

More Sessions and Demos

Dig deeper into the wider archive of original instrumentals, acoustic demos and live recordings.

Lynette Diaz album artwork — Album artwork

Lynette Diaz release artwork — Release artwork

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