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When It's Dark

by Madeline Finn

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When It’s Dark is in my opinion the most powerful creation I’ve been able to channel from the muse to music. It’s been in my arsenal for a year or two and has never ceased to help heal and move me when I perform it. The writing process was pretty bizarre, I started crafting it during a panic attack I had in my home caused by paranoia that someone was watching me. There was an overwhelming sense of doom, like I had no control over anything...almost as if I had been placed in an awful scene from a horror film with no way out. My fear had totally run away with me and the result left me terrified, inconsolable and absolutely certain that those moments were my last. Since none of the skills I learned in my treatment for this anxiety disorder seemed to work I picked up my guitar as a last ditch effort to get out of my head….then twenty minutes later the first draft of the song was done. It gave me a sort of container to put all the fear into, and that’s what I do every time I sing it... I take all the fear and anxiety I’ve been feeling and put it all into that moment. It doesn't get rid of it completely or make it so I don’t have to do any other work, but it does transport me back and remind me that I have in fact come out on the other side.

lyrics

Tell me what am I so afraid of
That someone might idolize me enough
to spend all of their days crafting ways
to cage me and hold the key

Tell me what am I so disturbed with?
The picture of being a Queen?
Held on a throne in this sick person’s mind…
ruler of everything.

Maybe flattery, maybe causing a scene
I’ve had nightmares about this sort of thing

What do you do when it’s dark
What do you do when it’s dark
What do you do when no one can hear you
and no one can save you from harm?
What do you do when it’s dark

You know Fear is a delicate dance
she’ll spin you around and tie both of your hands
and she’ll force you to grow in ways you’ve never before
like the ivy slithers through the cracks

maybe flattery, maybe stone-cold me
I still have nightmares about this sort of thing

What do you do when it’s dark
What do you do when it’s dark
What do you do when no one can hear you
and no one can save you from harm?
What do you do when it rains
what do you do when you can’t sleep the same
What do you do when you know someones watching and the winds all whisper your name
What do you do when it’s dark

I’ve been singing to spiders, having coffee with the ghosts
doing all the things that scare me , I’ve been sleeping alone
so that I may grow accustomed to the way that it feels
and I’ll greet it like an old friend when it tries to steal
my breath or my body when it tries to rock me like a ship lost at sea
But I’m not crazy, I'm not crazy, I’m not crazy……

credits

released July 3, 2020
Written by: Madeline Finn
Recorded by: Jim Stewart Recordings
Produced & Performed by: Madeline Finn, Gabe Swarts, Tom Stankiewicz, Jim Stewart
Mixed by: Dave Schiffman
Mastered by: Phil Bova
Drums: Tom Stankiewictz
Guitar & Bass: Madeline Finn
Cello: Ellie the Celly
Slide Guitar: Gabe Swarts

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Madeline Finn Nashville, Tennessee

sparse folk, meditative piano ballads, twangy rock, and string-laced indie

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