How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light" |
I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness, |
I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand I said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check. |
I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving. You'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving. And I'll talk in my sleep, and you'll steal all the covers. We'll argue it out, and we'll call ourselves lovers. And I'll stay in my body, and you'll stay in your own. Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone. |
I'm just holding up mirrors at interesting places, I'm trying to capture life at strange angles. |
I'm thinking about where we are right now in history. The other common theme to this record is that the songs all put stuff I find important out on the table. Less metaphor and more me. |
In the laughing times we know we are lucky In the quiet times we know that we are blessed And we will not be alone. |
My Better Self, |
She who loves last loves best. |
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first. |
So the Christians and the Pagans sit together at the table Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able. |
Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. |
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. |
That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people. |
The green world was . . . unpredictable and chaotic. It was an unmediated place literally represented by the forest, the wilderness, where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself. |