Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth19 April 1967
CityMount Kisco, NY
CountryUnited States of America
compare light scorn shout sunset
And there's a sunset over the mountainsI shout my scorn to the splendorous skyFor how does this light compare to all the world's suffering.
realized songs
I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,
keeps truth
But truth is just like time, it catches up, and it just keeps going.
dreams hey people
Hey I know where I come fromBut I have a questionShall We the People never come homeFor after all that we've beenAre the dreams to come after?
argue backseat born call cause crazy drive dying ourselves stay steal talk time wondering
I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving. You'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving. And I'll talk in my sleep, and you'll steal all the covers. We'll argue it out, and we'll call ourselves lovers. And I'll stay in my body, and you'll stay in your own. Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone.
fallen
But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all
culture happens hype
There's a lot of hype in our culture about what happens when you become a parent,
green learned literally
The green world was . . . unpredictable and chaotic. It was an unmediated place literally represented by the forest, the wilderness, where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself.
awaken crossroads good love meet song sort travel
Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.
laughing quiet
In the laughing times we know we are luckyIn the quiet times we know that we are blessedAnd we will not be alone.
dance dance-and-dancing learned noise teach
And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.
capture holding life mirrors strange trying
I'm just holding up mirrors at interesting places, I'm trying to capture life at strange angles.
common less metaphor record songs stuff theme thinking
I'm thinking about where we are right now in history. The other common theme to this record is that the songs all put stuff I find important out on the table. Less metaphor and more me.
looked looking stand
And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,And we looked out to see your enemies,And we see that you're looking all at us instead.