Name: Dar Williams
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: A song I wrote back in 2000 about New England folk singer Dar Williams. I was a huge fan at the time but beginning to get a little disturbed at her mainstream success. The drums were played by my brother (who is better acquainted with punk rock than I am) and recorded in an old pencil factory in Brooklyn.

Dar Williams

from Don't Know How To Let You Go by The Way It Is

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A song I wrote back in 2000 about New England folk singer Dar Williams. I was a huge fan at the time but beginning to get a little disturbed at her mainstream success. The drums were played by my brother (who is better acquainted with punk rock than I am) and recorded in an old pencil factory in Brooklyn.

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Dar Williams

When I saw you at the show
How could you know I was watching you?

You played on your guitar a song about a bar
I’ll never be as cool as you

That day in the store you played
You never knew my mind was made up

And you’re so big now for a folk singer
You must make a killing
You’re a modern version, a humdinger
Just like Bob Dylan says

Last time I could afford to see one of your shows
was when you played with Holly Near
And that was years ago
How could I know your popularity would exceed my fear

That day in the store you played
You never knew my mind was made up

And you’re so big now for a folk singer
You must make a killing
You’re a modern version, a humdinger
Just like Bob Dylan says

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from Don't Know How To Let You Go, released August 29, 2012

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