Silence

from The Light You Can't See in the Day by Alma Drake

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Silence ... Michael recently reminded me that I wrote this song after we had a conversation about how nice it was to be in a relationship where we weren't forced to make conversation in order to keep the peace. When I played it for songwriters' group Chris really liked the "woohs." My friend Jean Littlejohn, Director and founder of the Family Folk Machine, writes the most wonderful string arrangements, so I asked her if she'd take this on. As always, she proved herself a "Jeanius" and I am just all kinds of honored to work with her. It's the lullaby at the end of this rainbow.

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Sitting under a half empty moon
Watching darkness and shifting light
We don’t speak because we don’t have to
And there’s no pressure to fill the silence

I lose myself in my own thoughts
I imagine you’re doing the same
It’s too dark to read shifting emotions
And there’s no pressure to fill the silence

The everyday turns upside down
In the home of stars there is no sound
And what a gift to hold
The silence safe and sacred now

We’re holding space and we’re holding silence
We’re not afraid of the dark
All the chatter and the whine of the highway
Disappears in the wake of our silence

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from The Light You Can't See in the Day, released October 25, 2022
Alma Drake: acoustic guitar, vocal
Sebastian Sauder: cello I and II
Annie Savage: violin and viola

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Alma Drake Iowa

Alma Drake (fka Gayla Drake) has been playing and performing music for over 50 years, and writing songs for over 40. They are currently a full-time sound therapy practitioner, but they continue to create and perform music on their own, with several bands, and with the Family Folk Machine choir. ... more

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