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
awaken crossroads good love meet song sort travel
Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.
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.
best everyday listens loud music next
The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
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?
aspire songs unite writes
That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.
forget glad peter took
I won't forget when Peter Pancame to my house, took my handI said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check.
ground love plant seeds
Well I love the way the world is your gardenAnd you plant your seeds and you let them growAnd you take things out of the ground just likeYou take what comes, but you never know.
according artist audience build company demo letting opposed record says someplace tape
What you do is you build yourself as an artist according to what an audience says about you, as opposed to just submitting a demo tape to someplace and letting a record company take it from there.
fallen
But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all
love-is names
The only word for love is everybody's name.
past
I have a sordid past.
dance fall light
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.