Lightning Bug - The Right Thing Is Hard To Do

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Lightning Bug - "The Right Thing Is Hard To Do" from the 2021 album A Color of the Sky on Fat Possum Records.

On today's Song of the Day, Audrey Kang — lead vocalist for shoegaze sensations Lightning Bug — shares her personal battle with self-worth against a delicate wash of guitars.

"Here I wanted to connect how the struggles and flaws within the individual are mirrored in the greater problems of society," she reveals in a press release. "How do we as individuals know we are on the right path? How do we as a society, as a species, know we are on the right path? So I started with myself, and my own struggles, touching on how I hide myself away from other people, on my stage fright, on my inability to be vulnerable, on this feeling I used to have that I needed to prove I was worthy of being alive. Then I tried to connect these struggles outward to global issues like xenophobia, arbitrary borders, the lines we draw between ourselves and the environment, and the ways we sacrifice the health of the planet for human convenience."

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0:00.0	Music
0:15.0	There's a child that you still can't hate
0:22.5	In the knocks of playgrounds light
0:31.0	And I
0:36.0	Time's on my last night
0:43.0	Then the years were by and I
0:48.0	Found different ways to do light
0:57.0	And out of light
1:02.0	Keep things apart inside
1:11.0	The world is sure to do
1:18.0	And you've got so much to do
1:24.0	Still feel it's hard to move
1:30.0	We've got so much to do
1:36.0	Don't you have simple
1:41.0	But I do
1:58.0	So they say they feel they hate one
2:03.0	But still the place is grim and entombed
2:13.0	And turn away those
2:18.0	Singing shout to most of the time
2:25.0	First burn in the water you try
2:32.0	As we turn to what we know with this light
2:37.0	And die
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