Another screen capture from the Ginger's open mic night, this time of me playing "Darkest Hour", just before I slid into the cover of Wilco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart".
I like how the shadows pretty much covered my eyes for the whole time I was on stage.
"Darkest Hour" is one of the most "desperate" songs I've written. The whole song is played in A, with only a slight augment at the end of each verse and in the middle 8th. It's meant to just build and build, until the end when the singer laments that he can't be there to comfort the woman he cares for. What makes this truly sad is that while she's the one having the nightmare, he's the one who is living the nightmare, because he desperately wants to help, and be there for her, and make it all better, but he can't, because she won't let him in.
That's real pain.
- Paul Kimball
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