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Show Me The Dark

by Cuckoo and the Birds

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Show Me The Dark was originally recorded in the winter of 2019 with the intention to include it in a future release with the new band. When the pandemic happened, we stopped rehearsals before we had a chance to learn all the songs together and record them. As a result, this track is a bit of an outlier, and to me that’s fitting because the arrangement features a lot of elements I haven’t had before: violins, electric drums, synthesizers, a poem I wrote the night before tracking.

The first iteration of this song was written during a time of high functioning anxiety for me. As I reflected then on my life at the elder age of 25, I identified many fond memories from my younger adulthood with details that had become fuzzy or forgotten over time. Show Me The Dark was born out of a desperation to regain access to those obscured memories and the self inhabiting them which felt so far that it seemed like a past life.

lyrics

Lyrics:

Don't you look at me
Most of me will never be seen
I was aflame on the inside burning out

I threw lampshades on my past lives
Covering in light but I can see inside the darkness

Don't you be afraid
All of this will come to pass one day
I was ashamed till I learned to hear myself again

I threw lampshades on my past lives
Covering in light but I can see inside the darkness

I wanna see the dark

Poem:

I was born coping in the light
one glass rounded at the shards
and I traced my spirit completely
its phantom fractions, its locked divides

Who decides
the clearance within my soul?
I've felt it stretch in the ever-black,
an expanse I comprise.
all I am, not all I see—
show it to me—
show me the dark

credits

released April 14, 2021
Produced by Jake Pearson
Tracked by Jake Pearson
Mixed and Mastered by Mark Gustafson

Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Songwriter - Tyler Earls
Guitars, Synths, Drum Machine, Backing Vocals - Jake Pearson
Violin - Rachel Gonzalez
Backing Vocals - Daniel Rausch

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