Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth19 April 1967
CityMount Kisco, NY
CountryUnited States of America
almost amongst encounter people sort
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
keeps truth
But truth is just like time, it catches up, and it just keeps going.
compare light scorn shout sunset
And there's a sunset over the mountainsI shout my scorn to the splendorous skyFor how does this light compare to all the world's suffering.
happens love word
And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.
argue backseat born call cause crazy drive dying ourselves stay steal talk time wondering
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.
laughing quiet
In the laughing times we know we are luckyIn the quiet times we know that we are blessedAnd we will not be alone.
common less metaphor record songs stuff theme thinking
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.
dreams hey people
Hey I know where I come fromBut I have a questionShall We the People never come homeFor after all that we've beenAre the dreams to come after?
burn
But I live and I know that I burn as I grow.
capture holding life mirrors strange trying
I'm just holding up mirrors at interesting places, I'm trying to capture life at strange angles.
realized songs
I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,
looked looking stand
And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,And we looked out to see your enemies,And we see that you're looking all at us instead.
enemies looked looking
And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you're looking at us instead.
fools silence surprised
Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?