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The Lights Are on the Hill

You told yourself it was curiosity. You told yourself you'd just take a look.

Track 2 of Kerosene & Candy Floss

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The story behind this song

You told yourself it was curiosity. You told yourself you'd just take a look.

It was late. Highway 9 felt restless underneath that August sky. And then — lights on a hill where no lights had any business being. Something between a song and breathing drifting across the clover and diesel. Hands turning the wheel before your mind made the decision.

You've felt this before. That pull that ain't exactly wanting. That warmth that ain't exactly right. The way the darkness opens up like something that's been waiting specifically for tonight.

This is how it starts. This is always how it starts.

What to Expect. Tremolo-soaked guitar that builds from sparse and hypnotic to full and lurching Gravelly Southern Gothic vocals, unhurried and intimate, like a shared secret A rhythm that pulls forward like something you can't look away from The calm before everything gets considerably worse

Have you ever turned off the highway toward something you knew you shouldn't?

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