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Write the Fear a Lullaby

by Ben Grace

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If you’re anything like us, your mind can be an unreliable narrator. Faced with distance, with conflict, with uncertainty, fear and anxiety become wide-awake late-night children, jumping on the bed, throwing tantrums of panic in your body, keeping you from trust, keeping you from sleep.

This is a lullaby for the what ifs and maybes that keep you awake. It’s a love song written by partners too many miles apart, to mend the anxiety in the distance between them. It’s a song for anyone who knows what it feels like awake in bed with worry, to hold back for fear of being hurt, to feel stuck in an old story when you only want to move on. In other words, it’s a song for everyone. It’s a song for you.

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Should you try to tell yourself
I’m gonna leave you
If the fear you carry’s
Inclined to believe you
When the ghosts of older stories
Upend and deceive you
Hold on

When the miles are much too hard
And roads are too long
If my face in your mind
Is an unfinished song
And you’re sure that the right
is all heading for wrong...
Hold on
Hold on

Won’t you write the fear a lullaby
Remind her it’s okay to cry
And find me in the folds of your desire
Tell the worries in your way
To try again another day
Shut up and love me til they all expire
Coz I’m not done with you yet
And this weight around my neck
Is nothing but a make-believe goodbye
So write the fear a lullaby

Should the shadows in your memory undo you
If the edges of the truth blur and elude you
When the corners of the future
Try and tear a hole right through you
Hold on
Hold on

Won’t you write the fear a lullaby
Remind her it’s okay to cry
And find me in the folds of your desire
Tell the worries in your way
To try again another day
Shut up and love me til they all retire
Coz I’m not done with you yet
And this weight around my neck
Is nothing but a make-believe goodbye
So write the fear a lullaby.

You tell her a story, I’ll sing her a tune
As if words could heal the wounds
I'll tell her a story, you sing her a tune
As if words could heal the wounds
As if words could heal the wounds

And we’ll write the fear a lullaby
Remind her it’s okay to cry
And find me in the folds of your desire
Tell the worries in your way
To try again another day
Shut up and love me til they all get tired
Coz I’m not done with you yet
And this weight around my neck
Is nothing but a make-believe goodbye
So write the fear a lullaby

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released May 8, 2020
Produced by myself & Paul Demer
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Drum performance & recording: Paul Eckberg
Guitars, Bass & additional recording: Paul Demer
Vocals, piano, keyboards & programming: me
Vocals & piano recorded by Ben Moore at Singing Serpent
Backing vocals: Paul Demer & Trisha McNeill
Mix & Master: Chris Bethea
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Song written by myself & Karyn Thurston
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Cover photo: Karyn Thurston

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Australian singer-songwriter Ben Grace’s impeccably crafted songs hover in the space between lightness and the depths, wrestling their way through humor and melody to peel back the layers and reveal the naked truth of us. Through the specificity of his own deconstruction, Ben writes into our universal search for belonging, spiritual homecoming, and desire to live seen and unashamed. ... more

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