Spaces Between Your Words

from Songs of Defiance by John Shields

	/

Digital Track
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more

You own this
Buy the Full Digital Album View the Full Digital Album
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Special physical copies of "Songs of Defiance", limited edition of 250; grab 'em while they're hot!

Graphic Design/Internal Photography - Dylan Henry
Cover Photo - Toriana Williams
CD tray sketch - Jo Brown

Includes unlimited streaming of Songs of Defiance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

edition of 250

$10 USD or more

You own this

lyrics

Honey, don’t you mind the space between
a comma and parenthesis
The space between our words is ever-widening,
day by day
Trailing off the speech of modest sentences,
I find it kinda funny
With all this time of quiet contemplation,
I push away
I can’t help but push away

Looking through the glass, what will be will be
I have to ask: What is wrong with me?

Consonants and vowels scatter blindly
through the open-air again
Slipping from your tongue they echo outward,
mumbled with care
If I hyper-focus I could catch them,
all in proper order
The issue seems to be that neither of us
are ever really there (are you in there?)

Looking through the glass, what will be will be
I have to ask: What is wrong with me?

Used to capture every single phrase,
flown like busy flocks of birds.
Now I tend to find the useful meaning in
Empty spaces
Between
Your words

Looking through the glass, what will be will be
I have to ask: What is wrong with me?

credits

from Songs of Defiance, released October 9, 2020
John: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Melotron
Dwight: Drums
Nancy Layne: Backing Vocals
Luisa Marion: Violins
Emily Jenkins: Cellos
Produced / Engineered by John Shields, Seth Howard
Mixed by Seth Howard, John Shields
Recorded on 8-Track Portastudio, with additional recording at Temple Recording Studio
Mastered by Edsel Holden III at Red Act Studios