Recorded and mixed in Redwood City, CA in 2010 by Paul Fifield.

All instruments played by Paul Fifield except drums, which were generated in Band-In-A-Box. Vocals by Paul Fifield

This song began as a bass line I played to a friend’s song as we played it at a private party. This new bass line sort of bubbled up that evening, a new idea for a familiar song. It may have been the last song we played that night because as I drove home the bass line kept thumping in my head and by the time I got home it was forming the basis of a new song. The lyrics began coming to me the next day and it became a song about grounding and connecting to one’s own personal power in the face of powerful outside forces that can seem overwhelming at times. - Paul Fifield

Darkness Has To Go
© Paul Fifield 2010    All Rights Reserved

Well, it's easy to feel like it just don't matter
'Cause the big fat cats, they just keep gettin' fatter
But I don't think all hope is gone, no no

'Cause you look inside, and you find your power
You give it some love and you watch it flower
Release your light and that darkness has to go

There's room for you and there's room for me
And there's nothin' special we need to see
The only trick is to let that feelin' grow

Well, Cosmos, Jesus, or Holy Smoke
Whatever which way you get your stroke
No matter, long as you let that feelin' grow

There are days you think that you just can't do it
But plenty of times there ain't nothin' to it... got
Joy comin' out your fingertips and toes

Now I’m not talkin’ about right or wrong
And it’s nothin’ to do with weak or strong
It’s about that part in us that wants to glow

So when I'm startin' to feel like it just don't matter
I reach inside and I stop that chatter
Within without, you reap just what you sow

I look inside and I find my power
I give it some love and I watch it flower
Release my light, that darkness has to go

There's light in you and there's light in me
We put 'em together and we all can see
With everybody's light that darkness has to go