Liner Notes

Music by Kris McDaniel, Ben Bradley, Carrie Jenkins.
Lyrics by Kris McDaniel.

Ben Bradley — cello, piano
Carrie Jenkins — voice
Kris McDaniel — synthesizers, drum programming

Carrie’s parts were recorded by Carrie in Nottingham.
Kris and Ben’s parts recorded by Kris and Ben in Syracuse.
Song mixed by Kris McDaniel.

Art by Paul Prescott

Lyrics

Do you even know who I am?
I follow you throughout the day
Then at night as the darkness takes you
I simply fade away

Is my existence a matter of convention?
’Cause people happened to speak this way
While you enjoy some kind of independence
Of what people choose to say

If absence will make your heart grow fond,
Then in absence I belong.
This is all I am.
I’m your shadow.

I’m a being of reason I’m told
Or a blindness in the mind’s eye
But I can tell you it feels pretty cold
When over me you won’t quantify

You partake in so many things
But they never partake in you
You’re some kind of substance
I’m a being only in the sense of being-true

If absence will make your heart grow fond,
Then in absence I belong.
This is all I am
I’m your shadow.