You Become The Night by PCBender

You Become The Night

PCBender builds ‘You Become the Night’ the patient way: clean guitars holding space through the verses before the chorus opens up and earns every second of its width. That lift into ‘the fears overtake but the darkness provides’ is the kind of moment where the production and the lyric arrive at the same time, and it hits. The third verse, where a mentor’s vague advice becomes a years-long echo described as ‘both blessing and a shroud,’ gives the song a specificity that keeps it from drifting into generic rock-night-soul territory. At just over five minutes in E major with a driving pulse, it knows what it is and doesn’t waste the space.

Lyrics

The overcast stillness takes its toll upon my prose A constant ticking of the clock acts as if it knows Some other senseless parable you shape until it flows In the end it matters not - the music always goes

When you finally decide to open your eyes Let go the dreams you keep locked inside The fears overtake but the darkness provides Where the truth that you fear has nowhere to hide You become the night You become the night

You feel the tether pulling tight, a thread the night bestows A silent force that shapes your name in ways you never chose You fear the shape you’re turning into - only darkness knows But even running from yourself still takes you where it goes

He told me I would find my voice before the waiting crowd But not the where or when or how, just “speak your truth aloud” These many years the echo stayed - both blessing and a shroud I lived my life and waited still, for what the night allowed

Credits

Songwriter: Michael Anthony Rose