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I Often Dream of Candlelight (Maria)

from Inside & Terrified by Bob Hillman

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I often dream of candlelight
The flame of human appetite
Bluish-yellow, flickering at night
Incandescent, breathing space
Partially illuminates
The restlessness and hunger in your face
Maria, Maria, Maria

Later on, I watch you drift
In and out of consciousness
Murmuring, in obvious distress
Undergoing – privately -
The usual anxiety
The movement of your lips bewitches me
Maria, Maria, Maria

Buried under/bundled up in blankets
Eyes shut tight against an old, familiar ache
The fear that you will have to face the future, fully awake

But the future has been written, we
Receive it on our morning walk
Serious and colorful in chalk
Words and pictures brought to you
By cheerful sidewalk artists who
Have never seen or even heard of blue
Maria, Maria, Maria

I won’t call today a celebration
I don’t have a plan to make a plan to understand
You can fight through the nights in Fantasyland

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from Inside & Terrified, track released September 18, 2020
Bob Hillman: acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Jonny Flaugher: bass
Jay Bellerose: drums, percussion
David Levita: nylon-string guitar
Jon Gilutin: piano
Jordan Katz: trumpet, flugelhorn
Maria Taylor: harmony

Produced by Jonny Flaugher
Mixed by Bill Mims/Mims Recording
Mastered by Rainer Gembalczyk/Sienna Digital

Cover art by Tim Robinson

©2020 Bob Hillman/Lap Cat Music (ASCAP)

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Bob Hillman is navigating the second act of a career that began in the late 90s, flourished in the early 00s, survived ten years of “real jobs,” and resumed in 2016 with the Peter Case- produced Lost Soul.

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