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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

Dar Williams

I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Fun Unique
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Jobs Praying World
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMS

Life Romance Therapy
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
DAR WILLIAMS

Kids Reading Years
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
DAR WILLIAMS

Leader Parent Religious
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Distance Honesty
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Notion Space
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMS

Language Much Taken Too
What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
DAR WILLIAMS

Choices Political Real
I have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS

Happen Past Sordid
All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
DAR WILLIAMS

Cheer Light Struggle
I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
DAR WILLIAMS

Ashamed Believe Political
I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
DAR WILLIAMS

Falling Gruesome Height Love
I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cutting Family People Sensitive
Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
DAR WILLIAMS

Again Beyond Century Field Learn
I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, “Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don’t want to cover up the song.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Cover Real Song Up

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

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