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Week 16 - How Many Midnights (230416)

from Song A Week, Vol. 8 by James Tristan Redding

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A big empty space the size of your life
Lit up by a circle of stars
So loud all around only silence inside
Drawn like dust in the shape of a heart

How many midnights lying awake
Under the lamplight filling this place

Twenty faint candles
In the shape of a crown
Twenty faint candles
May they never go out

Wood of the frame up above where you stand
Cut from an oak in the yard
Built from the ground by just one pair of hands
To give you some light in the dark

How many daybreaks hope filled the air
Chase out the heartbreak like the sound of a prayer

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from Song A Week, Vol. 8, released February 12, 2024

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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