Includes unlimited streaming of Crack of Light
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 1 day
edition of 10
8 remaining
$15USDor more
lyrics
CRACK OF LIGHT
Is that the sound of dancers at the wedding feast
Or soldiers marching in the city street?
Even the cries of joy and weeping sound the same
Every whisper of wisdom gets drowned out
By the relentless modern screaming sound
Can you still hear your true name?
I need a compass - I need a center
I’ve got vertigo tonight
I was born in darkness
Looking for a crack of light
My hands are raw from feeling my way along the walls
Knees are busted from breaking my fall
In a world where love and mercy make no sense
Suddenly there's this tiny hand in mine
And I’m leading the way though I’m nearly blind
And can barely see to take the next step
There’s a faint glimmer up ahead
Like sunlight glinting off the edge of a knife
I was born in darkness
Looking for a crack of light
So let the fire of understanding burn off the haze of superstition
The pruning sword of truth cut back these apparitions
Like the night gives way to the dawn
I hear echoes of a song from long before
Maybe older than we've had these human forms
And it keeps me pressing on - pressing on
Through this land beneath the shadow of death
Through noonday dark as midnight
I was born in darkness…
Toward a peace i might never find
Like some ever-receding horizon line
I was born in darkness
Looking for a crack of light
I was born in darkness
Looking for a crack of light
Gorgeous fingerstyle guitar playing from this Portland, Oregon musician that captures the spirit of American Primitive in dazzling detail. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 30, 2021
Bright and skipping songs that foreground the sound of the banjo and fingerstyle guitar in music that feels timeless. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 5, 2020
A lush new covers EP with plenty of talented guest appearances, with 100% of proceeds going to the Kentucky Waterways Alliance. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 28, 2018
The new record from Joan Shelley, produced by Jeff Tweedy, is warm, rich and earthy, Shelley's voice laying deep in a latticework of guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 6, 2017