Name: A Lantern and A Dream
Duration: P00H03M43S
Description: I originally wrote this song as part of the Stay at Home project. Because that required me to write and record a new song each week, I always wanted to rerecord this one in particular to smooth over some mistakes and add some more to it (I also changed the structure a tiny bit). This song remains one of my favorites that I've ever written.

A Lantern and A Dream

from Reimagined Static by Our Twilight Pastime

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I originally wrote this song as part of the Stay at Home project. Because that required me to write and record a new song each week, I always wanted to rerecord this one in particular to smooth over some mistakes and add some more to it (I also changed the structure a tiny bit). This song remains one of my favorites that I've ever written.

lyrics

You found me in the light,
but could you find me in the dark
if I brought some kerosene, a lantern, and a dream
that our love could make a spark?

You know I never shy away
from an adventure or a thrill.
So I say bring it on,
play our records until dawn
because we haven't had our fill.

And now we've lived and learned.
Hardship only helped us grow.
A symphony will never beat
someone singing in the street
because it's in the cracks and folds

that true beauty can be found.
And we've got love in our sights.
So now let's raise a glass
full of promise and a chance
for our future to shine bright.

Hand in hand.
Hearts beating in time.
This is our year,
I can feel it.

Let's take these moments that we've got
before what we've got to do
and spend them every chance we get,
because in the end
there's nothing better than nothing with you.

Hand in hand.
Hearts beating in time.
This is our year,
I can feel it.

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from Reimagined Static, released June 17, 2022

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Our Twilight Pastime New York, New York

Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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Reimagined Static

Jun 2022
Stay at Home

Apr 2020
Little Bird

Jun 2010
Odds & Ends

Aug 2009
Basement Demos

Jan 2009
Drunken Sailors

Dec 2007
Terra Firma

Mar 2006

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