Shouting at the Dark

from BE HERE NOW by The Mynabirds

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February 5, 2017
The thing is, we get to choose — not what is done to us, but what we do in response. I was feeling buoyed by the fight in the women all around me. Sally Yates had gotten fired for speaking out against Trump’s Muslim ban on January 30th, and she was fresh in my mind, along with my incredible feminist friends fighting Trump’s promise to defund Planned Parenthood on January 24th. God, it’s been so dark. Whatever we can do to shout it away — it’s not nothing.

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I’d rather have cuts on my knees  
Than blood in my mouth 
From biting my tongue
 And keeping it down

While you were sleeping
 I was wide awake screaming

SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT  
TEARING AT THE SKY  
TEARING AT THE NIGHT  
WITH BOTH HANDS

Go right ahead 
You can cut me off at my knees  
I’ll find a new way
 To get back up

Don’t need another naysayer  
There’s too much to do together

SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT  
TEARING AT THE SKY
 TEARING AT THE NIGHT  
WITH BOTH HANDS
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK
 TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT  
TEARING AT THE SKY
 TEARING AT THE LIES  
WITH BOTH HANDS

I wouldn’t want to be another way  
I couldn’t ever be another way
Whenever the sun comes down 
Like a ton of bricks
 I want to be the one, I want to be the one
To help you lift it 
And we’ll keep

SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT
 TEARING AT THE SKY  
TEARING AT THE NIGHT  
WITH BOTH HANDS
 SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
SHOUTING AT THE DARK  
TIL OUR VOICES BLOW OUT  
TEARING AT THE SKY  
TEARING AT THE LIES  
WITH BOTH HANDS

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from BE HERE NOW, released August 25, 2017

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The Mynabirds Los Angeles, California

American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) and GENERALS (2012), both produced by Richard Swift, and Lovers Know (2015). ... more

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