Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great, new songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, singer-songwriter Marc Scibilia celebrates the season of sun, surf and wanderlust in a catchy tune that inspires us to "sparkle just like diamonds."
TV watchers will recognize "On the Way" from the newest Jeep commercial. The 30-second spot, which is called “Summer of Jeep: On The Way," has accumulated 2,300 national airings and has been viewed on YouTube.com nearly two million times since it was posted about 10 weeks ago. It features great-looking millennial Jeep owners enjoying a perfect day at the beach. Shazam the song and you'll learn that Scibilia also released a full length-version.
Scibilia repeats the hook, "Let your summer guide you, on the way, on the way," while encouraging the listener to be fearless when discovering new roads.
In the first line of the song, he introduces precious stones to help make his point. He sings, "Journey where this path may lead / And live as big as giants / Summer sun and feeling free / Sparkle just like diamonds."
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., to a musical family, Scibilia moved to Nashville to become a songwriter just a month after graduating high school. According to his official bio, the young Scibilia got the idea to head south from a sarcastic guidance counselor who was frustrated with Scibilia's reluctance to pursue a "conventional" career path.
“What are you going to do? Go to Nashville and write songs?” she taunted.
To the young musician, this was a great idea.
Scibilia flourished in Nashville and took in all that it had to offer. He experimented with every genre of music, writing songs for other artists and touring as the opening act for James Bay and the Zac Brown Band, among others. In 2010, Scibilia landed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV.
The artist got a big break when his cover of the Woody Guthrie song “This Land Is Your Land,” appeared in Jeep’s “Beautiful Lands” Super Bowl commercial — the most Shazam-ed commercial of Super Bowl 2015.
Once again, Scibilia's "On the Way" has been catapulted by the popularity of a Jeep commercial.
Check out the two videos below. The first is the Jeep commercial and the second is an audio track of the full song. The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...
"On the Way"
Written and performed by Marc Scibilia.
Journey where this path may lead
And live as big as giants
Summer sun and feeling free
Sparkle just like diamonds
Golden hearts never afraid
Discover roads brightly shining
Wanderlust runs through our veins
Be fearless, tall as lions
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Trust your bones where they take you
Adventure awaits
Here we go it's all brand new
You won't hesitate
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
On the way, on the way
Let your summer guide you
Credit: Screen capture via YouTube.com.
