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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
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