STORY

One morning I woke up to a ton of emails & text messages asking "I watched 'Bones' last night - how did THAT happen?"

I had no idea what they were talking about. It turns out they were referring to a scene in an episode of the Fox TV drama 'Bones' that name-dropped me & my song 'The Lullaby of Loneliness'.

How did my song end up in the script for an episode of 'Bones'? I don't know. But it was awfully nice to be mentioned alongside Sia, Mazzy Star, José González, Antony & the Johnsons, & Kansas…!

'The Lullaby of Loneliness' came to me in a dream. After college I worked at a café in Seattle. One night I dreamed that a woman with a deep, gorgeous gospel voice was wandering between the tables of the empty café, singing this song. I woke up & sang the melody into my memo recorder before it evaporated from my subconscious. Do songs come to me in dreams very often? No. But when they do, it feels like a gift, like something beamed directly from above. I'll take it.

P.S. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see a gorgeously-produced performance video of 'The Lullaby of Loneliness' that I made with The Aaron English Band, recorded live at Seattle's legendary London Bridge Studio.

 LYRICS

I'm alone with what's left of my life
while the moon cuts the night like a knife
I am starved as the sigh of the stars
You're the pulse in the rhythm of the hours
turned to years but the night never ends
You heal me you open the wounds again
and any promise of dawn of day
is so far so far away
The lullaby of loneliness
The lullaby of loneliness

Just a sick little trick of the light
Just the moon rolling cold through the lips of the night
Just a whisper like smoke on the tongue
dying words of a distant sun
Just the murmur of fire in the vein
Just the winding of time on its chain
Just the shadows the longing the deep
of your song but it won't bring me sleep
The lullaby of loneliness
The lullaby of loneliness

The night wears your face
The night wears your face