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If you have ever gazed at the stars and the moon on a clear night away from city lights, lost yourself in that vast tableau, then you understand. You understand longing and awe. There’s beauty in this embrace of the unknown, in the graceful stellar dance. Perhaps, somewhere else, aliens see the light of our own sun just as we see the light of theirs. All part of the cosmic tapestry that is the goddess of night.
This song offers a path, if you like, toward integration. We cannot conquer this vast existence; we can only strive to understand our oneness with the sacred pulse of each moment. The goddess of night, the universe of which we are but tiny fragments, may or may not be open to our overtures. Yet there is no other way; this is this, and we must strive to contact with the meaning of reverence.
You’ll notice the lyrics allude to the embrace of not just cosmic bewilderment, but personal bewilderment as well. We cannot face the cosmos without also facing ourselves. Well again, we are part of the cosmos – as above, so below, and the increase in self-knowledge is the deepening of the universe herself.
This is one of the more technically demanding songs on the album. Passages of two-handed tapping on classical guitar and six string bass weave around some rather strange time signatures. Redeeming that chaos are some stunning performances from guests Matthew Raymond (electric guitar/piano) and James Woodhead (electric guitar/synthesizer). Together they make the song conjure a psychedelic dream state more than fitting for its subject.
There are lots of textures and layers on this song, my attempt to sonically articulate the unimaginably complex tapestry of the night sky. Naturally, I failed at this impossible undertaking, but perhaps it is the attempt that matters, the process and not the outcome. The stars move, we move, the song turns on its axis and the great work unfolds just a little more; just as the cosmic goddess might will.
lyrics
Count the stars
Before they fall
From the sky
Read their light
Learn the lore
Of the night
Drift in gloom
Fade into dreams
And far away
Count the stars
Let them guide
You aright
We don’t know
What might be
What we are
Mystery
We don’t know
What life is
Or where we will go
When it ends
Goddess of night spread your veil
Grant relief from the sun
Goddess of night shape the way
Sow your secrets in our souls
credits
from Goddess of Night,
released October 24, 2020
Matthew Raymond: electric guitar, piano
James Woodhead: electric guitar, synthesizer
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