(gentle guitar music) - [Cameraperson] I like that.

Are you good, ready?

- I'm gonna try it.

- [Cameraperson] Okay.

- I'm Eric Erickson, and this is, "If the Sun."

(gentle guitar music) ♪ Summertime was ending ♪ ♪ With fall around the bend ♪ ♪ With our situation pending ♪ ♪ I had some time to spend ♪ ♪ So I took off down the road ♪ ♪ And in a day or two ♪ ♪ I devised a secret code ♪ ♪ To get back in touch with you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still do ♪ ♪ Autumn leaves were falling ♪ ♪ So gently to the ground ♪ ♪ I knew you'd not be calling ♪ ♪ So I had my radar down ♪ ♪ Instead, I chose to look ahead ♪ ♪ Into a brand new day ♪ ♪ But I remember what you said ♪ ♪ Before you went away ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still do ♪ ♪ The days line up ♪ ♪ Around us one by one by one ♪ ♪ By one by one ♪ ♪ I took the road less traveled ♪ ♪ The way some people do ♪ ♪ And as the day unraveled ♪ ♪ My thoughts came back to you ♪ ♪ I can see your face ♪ ♪ In the shadows of my mind ♪ ♪ When I go back to that place ♪ ♪ The one we left behind ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still do ♪ ♪ The days go by ♪ ♪ Around us one by one by one ♪ ♪ By one by one ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still do ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you ♪ ♪ If the sun comes up this morning, I still do ♪ (soft guitar music) "If the Sun," the writing of that started as just an idea, and I guess it would be the chorus was the idea.

"If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you," and that's kind of a neat premise to go with.

And then, and so that line just came to me for a while, and it just kinda floated back and forth in my head.

And as I would go about my day, little scenarios would come, pictures, you know, of somebody maybe splitting up with someone or I don't know, they died, or it could be any number of things.

But how will you honor that person in a song?

And what would you, how would you paint a scene, picturing, not just the incident, but the world around, you know, the autumn leaves falling and different ideas.

And with that one, I really liked how the relationship between the words came.

How one word rhymes with another.

And there was this certain cadence in music that came, and that followed throughout the whole song.

So I'm really grateful for that song, that that song came to me.