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Still Lights Up The Rain

from Coming Home To Stay - album by James Hollingsworth

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"Still Lights Up the Rain-- This song appears to have strong influential ties, for those who go back far enough, to Jefferson Starship's first album, Blows Against the Empire (1970); in particular, to a song on that album called Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? The modal acoustic tonalities in both songs transport me back to a very nostalgic, 60's-idealistic time in my life. In this song (and others) his acoustic work has the feel of Bruce Cockburn and the Jorma Kaukonen / Paul Kantner combination in acoustic Jefferson Starship and earlier acoustic Jefferson Airplane songs. [Lyric excerpt: Watching for the Stars in the City skies / Amber reflections banish them from our eyes / As we sit here smiling in the Garden of Eden / Overgrown by the years of neglect / By unnamed others, a legacy of the past imperfect...] " - Van Casey, album review

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Watching for the Stars in the City skies
Amber reflections banish them from our eyes
As we sit here smiling in the Garden of Eden
Overgrown by the years of neglect
By unnamed others, a legacy of the past imperfect

But a saving grace transforms the face
Of the luminescent thief of the stars
As I raise my eyes to Heaven
To take in the air and breathe in the sight
Forgiveness shows the brightness
In a very different light
'cause it still lights up the Rain

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from Coming Home To Stay - album, released March 12, 2007
James Hollingsworth

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