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I Am The Night

from I Am The Night by Lach

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"This is among the first songs I ever wrote. I was a teenager and playing classical piano at the time in the suburbs of NYC. On the way to and from piano lessons I'd listen to WABC 77 Music Radio and I focused on the songs by piano players like Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel and even REO Speedwagon. I wrote "I Am The Night" to prove to myself I could write songs like them, though I didn't want to. Punk hadn't hit yet, I hadn't started the Antifolk thing up yet, but I knew there was a different way to write than what I was hearing on the radio. I wrote this song to show that I could write that way, but I was choosing not to.

Then last week I was thinking of the song and that it might be fun to see what kind of production I could achieve on it during this pandemic lockdown. Coincidentally, I was typing some pages from an old journal into my computer (digitalising my life) and the page I was entering was from the day I wrote the song!

It's hard to argue with destiny, so here it is, I Am The Night!" - Lach

lyrics

Hear my words floating toward you
In your room all alone
The sun's been down for hours and
life tonight's as still as the telephone

Whispered wishes from yesterday
gather strength as years go by
Return to take you away
Ride swiftly, ride with the night

I am the night that you've been dreaming of
The night waiting right here for your love

In your dreams of delight
In your hopes, your hopes for love
Comes riding the night
Coming down to you from far above

I am the night that you've been waiting for
The night shining right outside your door

Whispered wishes from yesterday
gather strength as years go by
Return to take you away
Ride swiftly, ride with the night

I am the night that you've been dreaming of
The night waiting right here for your love

I am the night that you've been waiting for
The night shining right outside your door

I am the night that you've been dreaming of
The night waiting right here for your love

credits

from I Am The Night, released April 18, 2020
Lach - Vocals, Piano, Strings, Brass, Harp, Drums, Bass
Cover Art - Rene Magritte / Art Layout - Lach
Produced and Engineered by Lach at Eden B Studios in Edinburgh

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

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