Unleash The Light

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The weekend before Thanksgiving 2012, my late wife and I stopped into an Irish pub in Chicago for a bite and a pint. It was only 3 weeks since Halloween, and my Guinness was served in a seasonal glass from Guinness with images of bats and cats and the words 'unleash the darkness'. Thinking this cool, I took a photo with my phone and went to post it on Facebook with a silly comment. When I opened Facebook, the first thing I saw was a post from an acquaintance saying that Dave Heim, the drummer in my band Radio Fade for the prior five years, had passed away suddenly the night before. I was dumbfounded with disbelief. Shocked, saddened and mystified, this 'dirge' in the Irish folk style arrived. I chose to sing it on the CD accompanied only by a bodhran, an Irish hand drum (played by Mike Austin). RIP Dave - you are missed by many. Irony sat next to me today in a small saloon; I didn’t see her coming, despite the tiny room I had found it clever my pint glass was engraved With the words ‘unleash the darkness’ On raven’s wings a herald brings the sad and shocking word: A comrade’s died; his loved ones cry, his friends begin to mourn We can’t control the levers that lower to the grave, It's life decides when to unleash darkness So sing while you’re still living, exult while you can sing Sing out with joy, shout out the noise that only living brings Darkness surely waits for us; we never know just when Unleash, unleash the light while you can It’s cliché to say that life is for the living, Nonetheless it’s still advice that’s worth the giving Cherish one another; how short the dimming day Til night has come and we succumb to darkness

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