Sparkle in the Dark
by Little Silver
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Sparkle in the Dark
05:08
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Walking through this time of year
Supposed to feel full of cheer
Out in the world I hear the songs
Same ones we play every year
If I’m true to my own heart
The only one I ever really loved
The Drummer Boy, the gift he gave
The only one a baby might have liked
What, I ask, does cheer mean?
When all around, there’s just activity
What do those who sit alone have left to feel but more alone?
The darkest time of the year
In the old New England corner of the world
We’re driving home, I take it slow
I look around, all the strangers in their homes
You know my favorite part
The bright electric yards
Wired full of light, piercing through the night
They give a little sparkle in the dark
Time has passed, and I
Find myself humming right along
‘Cause everybody wants to be warm and fed
Everyone deserves to feel comfort in their bed
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New England
03:56
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I came from California to New England
Same as I’d ever been, counting my stars again
I stood and listened to all our conditions
Cause I’d never been one, to turn from a loved one
I stayed here
You lit up the place like the page of a magazine
Holding the promise of everything
And I might be the only one who wasn’t afraid
Of you coming home, in fact that’s why I stayed
I stayed here
So climb in beside me
We’ll kill the lights
What could’ve been maybe can be tonight
Shake hands with the twilight, the dwindling days
The night taught me nothing but how to be cold afraid
Of losing it all, no of losing myself
No, of losing you, losing you
I stayed here
So climb in beside me, we’ll kill the lights
What could’ve been maybe can be….
I won’t check the mirror, til we’re long out of sight
What could’ve been maybe can be tonight
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about
"Sparkle in the Dark" is a holiday song of sorts -- a song about connection, inclusion and belonging, written against the backdrop of COVID isolation. We're releasing it with the b-side "New England", a track from our upcoming full length recording, to be released in 2022.
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released November 12, 2021
Recorded by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT
Produced by Little Silver and Nick Lloyd
Mastered by Nick Lloyd
Cover: "Poverty Row Night Light" (detail), by Andy MacDonald
Recorded by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT
Produced by Little Silver and Nick Lloyd
Mastered by Nick Lloyd
Cover: "Poverty Row Night Light" (detail), by Andy MacDonald
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Little Silver New Haven, Connecticut
“The elegantly understated debut from this Brooklyn band does what great, grown-up indie rock at its best has always done:
It maps out states of personal, emotional and historical in-betweenness with careful, intelligent grace… Songs […] take their time building from muted beauty to closely held grandeur.”
—ROLLING STONE
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Apr 26New Haven, CT
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May 19Hamden, CT
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Oct 5Hamden, CT
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Dec 2010
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