There's A Darkness When You're Coming Down

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Wrote this lyric top to bottom in a flash, picked up the old acoustic, played it through once and bam, done! The whole thing took less than five minutes. I then had to wait two months for a chest infection to heal before I could record it. Someday, I may add stuff like an organ bed, some lonesome bendy electric guitar notes, maybe a harmonica. But that's someday thinking. This song wants to be out now, and I wanna move onto the next one. So, just guitar and voice all anti-style, yeah?

lyrics

There’s A Darkness When Yr Comin’ Down

Yr whole persona is working man
Yet everyone calls ya the boss
It's like complaining about winning
After everyone else here has lost

Yr songs are stock options
car ads on the great white way
It seems one can retire
On the back of one's glory days

Lying underground
undiscovered I've
got treasure in my chest
You said I was joking
I replied it was
all in jest

When ya accept the invite
To have tea in the whitest home
Ya trade away yr artist’s right
To write the rebel poems

Can’t say I blame you
Not sure what I would’ve done
Given keys to the kingdom
At the end of a long, long run

But now I've trouble
sleeping, eating
even getting dressed
When we're so busy
being civil
to avoid any unrest

Still, I can’t help but wonder
About the songs forever lost
And if Caesar’s friendship
Is ever worth the cost

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from There's A Darkness When You're Coming Down, released November 20, 2022
Lach - Voice and guitar
Produced & Engineered by Lach at Eden B Studio in Scotland
Cover Art Layout by Lach
Photo by Seph Lawless (sephlawless.com)

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

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