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I wrote this song while still processing 9/11. I did not want to directly reference the date in the lyric but draw comparison and instead build hope in the music for renewal of self in the face of tragedy and circumstance. Peace be with you.

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It's too bad you didn't know
The power of one good friend
Who gave it all
While you just stood and listened
All these walls we build up
Ours by design
The strives we make
they all seem like compromise
Our minds get stuck
In familiar ways
You just have to imagine
Each new day

It's November 11th
I am remembering again
Somewhere there is silence
Paid for by freedom
Maybe that is just an old cliché
But at least it's made deliberate
Because I’ve just got to say it
It needs to be said

When the Pilot Light
Goes Flickering Low
Which One of Us
Will Have the Courage
To start again?

Across these double lanes
Watched over by tall street lamps
Down Fall covered paths
You have to let go of the past
Along lonely sundowns we’ll be reaching
for this life...
Home where the heart grows a little warmer each time
No fire inside
Just thoughts of you
What we had once, seems gone for good

Back in simple days
of low student rent
Behind every mind
is one precious price we spend
Look it is nothing like
one lost dull mind
And you should never have to ever waste it

Pilot Light – S.King (c)2005
All rights reserved. Chaos Music Publishing
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Stephen King Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

An award-winning guitarist well versed in folk & jazz combining genres into an amalgam of storytelling with improvisation, best described as indie-antifolk. Driven by experiences which express a personal, romantic and artistic idealism; at times political, while having social and environmental concern. Using craft and wit, the music draws inspiration from a range of traditions including Canadian. ... more

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