Sometimes life places us not in the aftermath, or even the beginning, but in the middle — in the unseen moment where things shift but haven’t settled. That’s where this new short song came from.
“Between Light & Dark, Places” is only just over a minute long. It opens with a rhythm of soft, triadic guitar figures — a brief but steady pattern I built out of improvisation, something both calming and quietly unsettled. Then come the words. Sparse, but weighted.
when the darkness fades
and the sunlight shades
it’s a blackness of
none of it
The lyrics repeat — like something unresolved. It’s meant to capture the emotional limbo we often find ourselves in. Not fully healed. Not fully broken. A passenger between the weight of cosmic forces — or, more realistically, the motivations and consequences of other people’s decisions. Their wars. Their actions. Their decisions, & the effect it has on us.
Something In the Nothing
Even in what feels like nothing, there is something. Maybe not a reason, maybe not a plan — but presence, even in shadow, absence. A whisper of weight in a moment of pause. That’s what I wanted this song to live in — the gray, the in-between, the places between light and dark.
In a world increasingly dominated by noise and reaction, quiet reflection becomes an act of resistance. And this piece, small as it is, was my way of pushing back — even if only for a minute.
Thanks for listening.
— Josh
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