Dim Flickering Light - lyrics and story

Dim Flickering Light
(kathy hussey)

Time stands still
In a darkened room
where only candles glow
We're alone, and this moment here
Is all we've ever known
And I can feel forever
Its always there somewhere
But fill this place with it's bright white
Forever wouldn't dare

In the dim flickering light
In the dim flickering light
In the dim flickering light

You're golden warm
And quiet blue
Your kiss is crimson wine
I'll never get my fill of you
Your taste is sweet, sublime
And fear will never find us
Though it's dark outside the door
The peace, the glow, the crackilin fire
It's not what fear is looking for

In the dim flickering light
In the dim flickering light
In the dim flickering light

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The Story:

April 14 2000

This started as an instrumental - I had just worked up another Joni Mitchell
song, "Case of You" which was in the tuning E A E G B E, and I started
working on several little guitar things around that tuning. I actually don't tune
the D up to an E, I drop the other 5 strings down a step - I broke a couple strings
to learn this lesson, and it always made me uncomfortable putting the extra strain
on the neck anyway. So my tuning is D B D F A D ("Emily" is also in this tuning).
After I had the guitar part I just started loving the feel - it was dark and mysterious
and romantic and the image formed in my mind of a cozy room lit by a fire and by
lots of candles. I love light - or, more accurately, the proper use of it...maybe it's the
photographer in me. I have been known to go around changing the lighting at a
party if it's not right (obnoxious at first, but the aesthetic is everything!). Dappled
sunlight under a canopy of leaves, campfire, candles - the warmth of natural light...
what could be more romantic?