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“Walk the Night (Dark Room Version)” is the first of two sister singles to be released at the close of 2021.
EWAH (vocals) and Charles Donnelly (piano) first arranged a collection of songs for piano and voice from critically acclaimed album Everything Fades to Blue (independent release, 2017) for a series of curated shows in 2019. Walk the Night was one of them. In a bid to not let these exquisite versions entirely disappear into the ether, they recorded “Walk the Night (Dark Room Version)” at the Donnelly family home in the middle of winter in Tasmania, 2021.
The song is based on a true story about a mother who goes to a party, but never makes it back home to her children. The song imagines her walking the streets, caught between life and death, making the journey through the night to be reunited with them.
The album Everything Fades to Blue is a eulogy to women victims of violent crime; telling stories imagined from the female point of view, rather than focusing on violence from the point of view of the perpetrator, a position popular culture takes all too often.
The video for “Walk the Night (Dark Room Version)” was filmed live as EWAH and Donnelly performed, set in a grand room veiled in white sheets and lace.
The sister video for a second reimagined EWAH & The Vision of Paradise song will follow soon…
lyrics
WALK THE NIGHT
It’s gone past my bedtime
I hear tyres scream through the night
I lost my soul
So close but so far from home
The streets are familiar
The trees call out my name
I hear the kids cry
In their beds at home
When you’re through
You don’t feel anything
All I can do
Is walk the night
They search both day and night
Still no one can find me
I walk alone
So close but so far from home
When you’re through
You don’t feel anything
All I can do
Is walk the night
My days are through
And I want you more than anything
I long for you
And walk the night
I can sense you in the breeze
I can feel you look at me
But I’m numb
And my time is numbered
Your car came back for me
In a dark suburban street
In February
A warm wind blew in from the north
When you’re through
You don’t feel anything
I long for you
And walk the night
My days are through
And I want you more than anything
All I can do
Is walk the night
One one, two two
I long for you
Three three, four four
I want you more
Five five, six six,
My little kids
Seven seven, eight eight
Please don’t wait
Nine nine, ten ten
We’ll meet again
Step, step, step
Into the night
credits
released November 19, 2021
Lyrics and music originally published on LP Everything Fades to Blue by EWAH/Emma Louise Waters, released independently 2017.
Arranged for piano by Charles Donnelly and EWAH.
Recorded + mixed by Jethro Pickett.
Recorded 31 July 2021 at the Donnelly residence.
Mastered by William "King Willy" Bowden (Grammy Award Winner).
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