New York City based singer/songwriter, Alice Kristiansen, crafts beautiful,… Read Full Bio ↴New York City based singer/songwriter, Alice Kristiansen, crafts beautiful, emotionally-charged music that creates a genuine connection with the listener. This talent is amplified by a dynamic voice capable of a degree of honesty that places the listener right in every impassioned moment of her music.

Alice has a dedicated following that started with Ashton Kutcher posting one of her covers to Facebook in 2015 and has since grown organically to almost 850,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel. Her recent releases “Lost My Mind” and “Lost in Translation” were featured on Spotify’s coveted New Music Friday and New Music Friday UK playlists, and Blackbook Magazine proclaimed “We fell for her with the recent release of the hauntingly beautiful single ‘Lost My Mind.’ It was a bit like Lana Del Rey, but with 10x the fire. You heard it here first: we think Alice Kristiansen is going to be a star.”

One can’t help but believe her new music is a first glimpse into what will be a pivotal year in the creative journey of Alice Kristiansen. It is undoubtedly an indicator that we are just scratching the surface of what is a very special artist.

Woodstock
Alice Kristiansen Lyrics

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I came upon a child of God.
He was walking along the road so I asked him "
Where are you going?" And this he told me "
I'm going on down to farm I'm going to join in a Rock and Roll band I'm going to camp out on the land I'm gonna try and set my soul free." We are stardust.
We are golden.
And we got to get ourselves back to God.
Can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the and the feel something turning.
Well maybe it's just the time of year.

Or maybe it's the time of man.
I don't know who I am.
But you know life is for lovers.
We are star dust.
We are golden.
And we got to get ourselves back to God.
By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong.
And every where a song ends a celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the plubmers riding shotgun in the sun.
Turning into butterflies across our nation.
We are stardust billion year old carbon.

We are godlen caught in the devils bargain.
And we got to get ourselves back to God.

Overall Meaning

The song "Woodstock" by Alice Kristiansen is a cover of Joni Mitchell's classic anthem about the famous 1969 music festival. The song's lyrics describe a chance encounter with a "child of God" who is heading down to the farm to join a rock and roll band and camp out on the land in an attempt to set his soul free. The singer of the song asks to walk beside this person and explains that she has come to lose the feeling of confusion and to find something that is turning within her. She suggests that maybe the feeling is due to the current time of year or the state of humanity, but she doesn't know who she is. However, she knows that life is for lovers and that they both need to get back to God.

Line by Line Meaning

I came upon a child of God.
Encountered a person with pure intentions.

He was walking along the road so I asked him "Where are you going?" And this he told me "I'm going on down to farm I'm going to join in a Rock and Roll band I'm going to camp out on the land I'm gonna try and set my soul free."
He plans to join a community of like-minded people, pursue music and abandon materialistic life to find spiritual liberation.

We are stardust.
Just like stars, we are remnants of billions of years of cosmic evolution.

We are golden.
We have high value and are valuable enough to connect with God.

And we got to get ourselves back to God.
We need to rediscover our unity with God.

Can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the [?] and the feel something turning.
I'd like to accompany you as I am also seeking to lose something inside me and feel something new.

Well maybe it's just the time of year.
The hope of something new likely stems from seasonal changes.

Or maybe it's the time of man.
Perhaps culture and civilization are experiencing a moment of change.

I don't know who I am.
My sense of identity is unclear.

But you know life is for lovers.
But I know that people should live lovingly.

By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong.
By the time we arrived at Woodstock, there were hundreds of thousands of people united in this shared experience.

And every where a song ends a celebration.
Whenever a song ends, there is a celebratory atmosphere.

And I dreamed I saw the plubmers riding shotgun in the sun.
I visualized the everyday person, symbolized by a plumber, driving alongside the sun with a sense of freedom.

Turning into butterflies across our nation.
This visual represents the metamorphosis and change happening across the nation.

We are stardust billion year old carbon.
As cosmic beings, we are comprised of ancient elements.

We are godlen caught in the devils bargain.
Although we have value, we are still trapped in worldly bargains.

And we got to get ourselves back to God.
Ultimately, we need to reconnect with God to break free from these worldly chains.

Contributed by Gabriella V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.

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