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The Dark

from Filament by Buddy Mondlock

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The Dark (Guy Clark/Buddy Mondlock)

In the dark you can sometimes hear your own heart beat
Or the heart of the one next to you
The house settles down after holding itself up all day
Shoulders slump and it gives a big sigh
And you hear no one's foot fall in the hall

The drip in the kitchen sink marking time
June bug on the window screen
He can't get in but he keeps trying
One way or another we're all in the dark

Fireflies, sparks, lightning, stars
Campfires, the moon, headlights on cars
The northern lights, the Milky Way
You can't see that stuff in the day!

When the earth turns it's back on the sun
The stars all come out and the planets start to run around
They call that "day is done"
But really it's just getting started
Some folks take comfort in that

And how dark is it?
It's too dark for goblins
How dark is it?
It's so dark you can smell the moon
How dark is it?
It's so dark the wind gets lost
How dark is it?
It's so dark the sky's on fire!
How dark is it?
It's so dark you can see Fort Worth from here…

©2002 by Sony Music, Inc./Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)

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from Filament, released February 18, 2023
Mike Lindauer - fretless electric bass / Brad Jones - loops / Austin Hoke - cello / Buddy Mondlock - acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar & recitation

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Buddy Mondlock Nashville, Tennessee

Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, and Janis Ian, to name just a few. You might’ve heard his song “The Kid” (recorded by David Wilcox, Peter, Paul and Mary and Cry, Cry, Cry) and maybe even sung it yourself around a campfire. He draws you into his world. ... more

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