Allison Russell – Nightflyer

Thanks to WMOT — Roots Radio in Nashville for this one.

I was listening online yesterday. They played this song I share with you today.

It’s by Allison Russell from her 2021 album Outside Child.

This is her first solo album — after making some great music with her husband in their band Bird of Chicago.  

Earlier this week, WMOT published its list of “Most Played Albums” (based on station airplay).

Outside Child was #1.

Our Song of the Day playlist includes tracks from two albums in the Top-10 of WMOT’s “Most Played…” list:

  • Shannon McNally’s The Waylon Sessions 
  • Aaron Lee Tasjan’s Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! 

Allison Russell’s Outside Child makes three.

I share one track here. I recommend all 11 on the album.

Lyrics below. I like this verse:

I’m the wounded bird, I’m the screaming hawk
I’m the one who can’t be counted out
I’m the dove thrown into battle
I can roll and shake and rattle mm-hmm, hmm
 

Enjoy…

Today’s Song 

Title: Nightflyer
 

Artist: Allison Russell
 

Album: Outside Child (2021)

YouTube Link (Official Video): 

youtu.be/RNJgwj8d9eo

Lyrics

Yeah, I’m a midnight rider  

Stone bonafide night flyer  

I’m an angel of the morning too  

Promise that the dawn will bring you, you  

I’m the melody and the space between  

Every note the swallow sings  

I’m fourteen vultures circling  

I’m that crawling, dying thing  

I’m the smoke up above the trees, good Lord  

The fire and the branch that’s burning, Lord  

Maybe you were sleeping, Lord  

But Mary she’s not weeping no more, no  

Yeah, I’m a midnight rider  

Stone bonafide night flyer  

I’m an angel of the morning too  

Promise that the dawn will bring you, you, you  

I’m the sick light of a hurricane’s eye  

I’m a violent lullaby  

I’m six fireflies, one streetlight  

I’m a suffocating summer night, mm-hmm, mm-hmm  

I’m each of his steps on the stairway  

I’m his shadow in the door frame  

I’m the tap tap of a lunar moth  

I’m the stale beer on his breath mm-hmm, mm-hmm  

His soul is trapped in that room  

But I crawled back in my mother’s womb  

Came back out with my gold and my greens  

Now I see everything  

Now I feel everything good Lord  

What the hell could they bring to stop me Lord?  

Nothing from the earth, nothing from the sea  

Not a God almighty thing  

Yeah, I’m a midnight rider  

Stone bonafide night flyer  

I’m an angel of the morning too  

The promise that the dawn will bring you, you, you  

I’m the wounded bird, I’m the screaming hawk  

I’m the one who can’t be counted out  

I’m the dove thrown into battle  

I can roll and shake and rattle mm-hmm, hmm  

I’m the moon’s dark side, I’m the solar flare  

The child of the earth, the child of the air  

I am the mother of the evening star  

I am the love that conquers all  

Yeah, I’m a midnight rider  

Stone bonafide night flyer  

I’m an angel of the morning too  

The promise that the dawn will bring you  

Yeah, I’m a midnight rider  

Stone bonafide night flyer  

I’m an angel of the morning too  

Promise that the dawn will bring you, you, you, you, you, you, you 

Here are the Playlists:  

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xYKtYparrdJRYAjBj9kjx?si=eb6c3ebc30484204 

Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/ware-house-concerts-song-of-the-day/pl.u-Ggz26cZlAVLj 

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