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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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Unusual Suspects
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The Backlight: This song is the story, the embodiment, of the message that catapulted Elise Babbel, Ganesh $ Shankar, Brad Wolfe, and Danny Cox to the class co-presidency. Making this song, singing it for Stanford-ites in dorms, in White Plaza, after...
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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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NEW HAVEN
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The Backlight: No story behind it, maybe ahead? A set of chords that please me and a harmonica improvising a melody.
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: "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...
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winter song
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The Backlight: I wrote this the first cold night Orlando had this year. After being in so much warmth, the biting cold immediately took me back to wintertime in Sydney.
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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...
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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