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The Backlight: "Goodbye Friend, you'll hear from me again. FM 95 on your drive home."
I wrote this song after a music producer I was working with told me that all I had was passion and a big heart, but not enough true talent to make it in music....
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Without A Name
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The Backlight: This is a song I wrote for someone close to me that I drifted apart from. I didn't want this distance--i felt there was enough of a spark between us to make it work. The song's feel and lyrical content was inspired by a special tattoo...
The Backlight: This website wouldn't exist without Sara LaBoskey and without this song. Every time I play Tall Grass live I still get chills. I can only think somehow that my dear friend Sara is talking to me from wherever she is now. I wrote this...
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The Backlight: "Alone I can only get so high"
This song came together during a period in my life when I came to a fuller understanding of Love's depth--the notion that a true partnership can give you a sense of strength in the world, a sense of...
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The Backlight: (lyrics below)
I once spent 6 weeks at a castle in the Austrian countryside called Schloss Mittersill, asking myself a lot of questions about my life and just generally trying to figure some stuff out. Since I'm an academic person, in...
The Backlight: One summer weekend in 2006, my small spiritual community went on a retreat to an apartment in San Francisco. As a major part of the time, each person had one or more pieces of art to present on the subject of her “deepest...
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Us
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The Backlight: This is my first song on the ukulele. The idea behind this song was inspired by Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of the main themes of the novel is this idea of lightness versus heaviness in all aspects of...
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The Backlight: You know that moment when all of your over thinking it, over analyzing it, overdoing it just fades into enjoying the moment? This song is about being in the moment and knowing that in the best of worlds, you could love people without...
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Into Forever
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The Backlight: I wrote this as a wedding song for my best friend growing up. Love that girl!
Into Forever
I have spent hours trying to find
Just the right words to truly describe
How it feels to know you love me
How it feels to know you...
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hello, daineal
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The Backlight: It all started with a blog comment.
Well, not entirely.
I have known my friend Jeanne for less than a year, and we really only started hanging out consistently over the past few months. Over the course of our friendship,...
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The Arsonist
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The Backlight: Jeanne wrote this fantastic, heartbreaking piece called Phantasmic Reality: Smoldering Bonds awhile back. I loved the imagery and the emotion conveyed in the writing and it moved me on a profound level. Quite inexplicably.
There...
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lucky
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The Backlight: my songs are always so serious. i wanted to throw a bit of irony into the mix. ;)
you're lucky i'm not the wandering kind
i won't save my money so i can board that midnight flight
and i won't float around, spinning free on the...
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