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Don't Refrain (LFNov2020)

from Lightning Flash - November 2020 by Candle

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The lead single from the soon-to-be-released Mehodical Variations Volume V, Don't Refrain is a song about existential angst & the choices we make on our path to destiny. This stripped down version features just a single electric guitar & vocals. It tries to capture the sense of angst that existentialism seems to impart on humanity.

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Don't Refrain
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For 29 years its been so long
Since I felt the rain or heard a song
For 29 years, maybe more
I've been in pain, starring out this door

Where will I go?
Where will I go now?
Out into this dark world
My friend
And where
Where will I go now
That I'm free?
Free to be anything in the end

Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't refrain
Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't remain

The road to hell
Is paved with good intentions
But we walk this road
Of our own free will
Our choices
Are our only constraints
They're a prison
Of our own making
So I walk the road
Encumbered by my freedom
Hoping to take
The shortest destined path

Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't refrain
Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't remain

I walk through the night
I still see the light
The light!
And I walk through the night
I still see the light
The light!
I walk through the night
I still see the light
The light!

Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't refrain
Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain, don't refrain
Don't stop to patronize
Don't stop the tears in my eyes
Don't stop all the pain
Don't remain…

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from Lightning Flash - November 2020, released November 15, 2020
Music, Lyrics, Performance & Production: Candle
Image by Michæl Gaida from Pixbay

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Candle Kenora, Ontario

Darby Spicer’s ongoing experimental-space rock project CANDLE fuses psychadelic & progressive rock stylings with ambient sounds & textures that create emotion driven soundscapes that only need to be experienced to be understood.

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