Did you break it, did you speak, were you direct or yet oblique?
Honey turn your light on, honey, where's your light?
As those hills rose up surrounding you
I swear the distant waves of sound in space were still the truth.
Did you pull the river's crease inside your heart to help you sleep?
Honey turn your light on, honey, where's your light?
Could the wrens have called in algebraic code,
and were they crying, 'this is not your home?'
All along the road you stared at me.
Did you dream it, did you creep outside to touch the ivy's teeth?
Honey turn your light on, honey, where's your light?
Do you know the day you turned to fireflies and smoke,
atomized and swam beside the kitchen's radio ghosts?
All along the road you beat the heartbeat into me.
Call the guard in, clue the wind, tell the night.
Honey turn your light on, honey, where's your light?
credits
from Silver Recovery,
released December 21, 2018
Annika Bentley: vocals & guitar
Kathleen Fraser: upright bass
Otto Hauser: drum set & percussion
Mary Lattimore: harp
Written & Produced by Annika Bentley
Mixed & Mastered by T.J. Lipple
Engineered by Keith Parkins
Recorded by Annika Bentley in Rochester, NY. Drum set & percussion recorded by Tyler Wood at Sauce Farm Studio in Catskill, NY. Harp recorded by Mary Lattimore at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.
Artwork by Margaret Farmer
Photography by Keith Parkins
Design by Darryl Norsen
Magnificent new work by super-talented harpist/composer, my friend & yours, Mary Lattimore! Spooky & sublime, soothing and a little bit sinister. Annika Bentley
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