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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.

Dar Williams

The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
DAR WILLIAMS

Empires Foundation Looks
The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
DAR WILLIAMS

Goodbye Passed School Summer
Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That’s the only thing that keeps me from believing that there’s going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.
DAR WILLIAMS

Believing Country Important Music Things
The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
DAR WILLIAMS

Fear Left never Right Swing
If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
DAR WILLIAMS

Everything Helping Life Lucky
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
DAR WILLIAMS

Echo Kindness Time
[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

Cities Country Reality
Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
DAR WILLIAMS

Careers Couple Thinking
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 really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
DAR WILLIAMS

Identity Men Song
For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
DAR WILLIAMS

Birthday Blow Couple
I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.
DAR WILLIAMS

Career Country Jobs
I have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS

Happen Past Sordid
If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
DAR WILLIAMS

Attitude Crunchy Wisconsin
Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
DAR WILLIAMS

Choice Make Political Time
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
DAR WILLIAMS

Light Night Revenge

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