Ray Bonneville’s new single “On the Blind Side,” is a moving song about coming to terms with one’s inner shadows and healing old emotional wounds. “On the Blind Side” is new ground for the gritty, road-hardened songwriter.

Featuring Will Sexton (guitar), Amy La Vere (bass) and Andre Bohren (drums)!

With insights gained from isolation, Ray Bonneville has emerged from the pandemic ready to share more of his life story, to draw from it creatively, to allow it to take him to new places and take his audience along with him. Bonneville will release three singles this year, followed by an album in early 2023. The working title for the song project is On the Blind Side, also the title of the first song to be released. While remaining accessible to the listener, this new group of songs represents a more introspective phase for Ray.

Lyrics

On The Blind Side… -Ray Bonneville (2022)

where a blade of sunlight falls back in time
I’m a kid with a slingshot and a jack knife
under the weight of a fear dealer’s faith
driving me into a secret deeper every day
on the blind side
on the blind side
deeper every day into the blind side

while the old man who would need forgiving
trampled what love there might’ve been
I was telling myself I would come away clean
what was it I just couldn’t see
on the blind side
on the blind side
what couldn’t I see on the blind side

ma she gave me a used guitar
hoping to tame my reckless heart
it took me down a lonesome two-lane
one for loving one for turning away

my eyes getting used to the darkness
in time I see my own likeness
still a kid, still afraid, still making sure
love don’t get close enough again to hurt
on the blind side
on the blind side
close enough to hurt on the blind side

on the blind side
on the blind side
close enough to hurt on the blind side