Name: The Light
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: I usually write about smaller, concrete details. The Light, however, is a broad song. I wrote it looking at Odette, my and Nelle’s child, when they could first sit up by themselves. Big, ancient feelings crash into me all the time when I’m with Odette. It’s such a privilege. I doubt I could have written a song as sweeping and zoomed out as The Light without having been in early-dad-dom.

The Light

from Body Child Light Crime by Owen FitzGerald

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Cream cassette with screws and red leader. Clear case. 3-panel J-Cards risograph printed by Woolly Press in Asheville, NC. Hand-stamped on-tape printing by Gabe Anderson and Owen FitzGerald. 8 page BnW zine insert containing lyrics and liner notes. Digital download card. Sleepy Cat Sticker.

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I usually write about smaller, concrete details. The Light, however, is a broad song. I wrote it looking at Odette, my and Nelle’s child, when they could first sit up by themselves. Big, ancient feelings crash into me all the time when I’m with Odette. It’s such a privilege. I doubt I could have written a song as sweeping and zoomed out as The Light without having been in early-dad-dom.

lyrics

What happens when The Lights turn off?
What happens when you die?
When you flip the record to the other side?
When you slip through the Universal drain?
When you learn Death’s first name?

What happens when The Lights cut on?
What happens when you’re born?
What is learning for?
Where are we headed towards?
Is anyone keeping score?

What happens when it’s all chaos?
What happens when I’m feeling lost?
What happens when The Lights run hot?
What happens when The Lights run hot?

Take it as it comes until you took it as it came.

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from Body Child Light Crime, released October 16, 2020

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Owen FitzGerald Raleigh, North Carolina

Southern Gothic alt-folk from central NC.

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