Darkroom Lullaby

from The Awful Rowing EP by Hardworker

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As with almost every track on the album, this song started out as an angry little poem that I wrote when I was somewhere I didn't want to be. Special thanks goes to Jeremy Richards because we didn't really know each other yet, but I read it out loud to him and he said: Hey that's cool. That would make a good song. “Darkroom Lullaby" was also given an honorable mention in American Songwriter’s May/June 2015 Lyric Contest.

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I fell in love in a darkroom
And mistook a red glow for the sun.
We hung slippery pages of memory
From the clothesline our fingers had strung.
I traded my truths like stocks
And bonds tightened ‘round my wrists.
Poison lips you placed on my lips,
But that's not true, we never kissed.

I fell in love in a darkroom
Content to inhale all your chemicals
Conceited to choose something radical
You tears sting so sterile, it's medical.
I gave up life for a snapshot
Forgot about that last dimension,
Retained all your pain in a picture frame,
Confused terror with sexual tension.

I fell in love in a darkroom,
But believed I had mined to the source,
Forced myself to the earth's very core,
Cut my skin on the earth's jagged ore.
I lost the thread to the surface,
Replaced breathing with feeding the furnace.
Put my face to your face for a portrait,
Told you smile and said "Hold it."

I fell in love in a darkroom--
With the feeling of shoulder-to-shoulder--
With the promise of "When you get older"--
With the stoic despair of a soldier.
I fell in love in a dark place
And believed that my love was a shade plant.
I would swallow the sun just to change that.
I have swallowed the sun, I have swallowed the sun,
I have swallowed the sun just to change.

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from The Awful Rowing EP, released September 11, 2015

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Hardworker Durham, North Carolina

Hardworker is a rock band from Durham, North Carolina. The band took its present shape in 2015 when Sus Long and Mike Conner traded in their acoustic folk duo for something a bit louder with guitarist Danny Nowell. Their 2017 release, Go Alone was produced by Alex Bingham and engineered by Mitch Easter at the Fidelitorium in Kernersville, NC. ... more

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