Under Holy Water
by Mark Fielding Darden
Written 2008, Oxford NC

Obviously written post-divorce and after I’d read the confessions she’d left behind by accident. Tough time for both of us. I was just beginning to understand what happened to our marriage, but it was too late by then to do anything about it. She was gone.

At that time, Chris and Kristin were working through all kinds of new songs with me (and divorces of their own). Chris played bass, but I’m pretty sure I played everything else, including the piano and string parts. I actually surprised myself.

Now, fourteen years later, I am putting a video to this song. Beth has moved back to Clayton, Kristin is with a long-term fiancé not far away, and Chris has disappeared somewhere in Raleigh. I’m living alone and I have a very painful back issue… and cancer.

I’m hoping to get as many of these great, unpublished songs online as possible before the shit hits the fan.

Mark Darden: guitars, song, vocal, video, percussion, piano, strings
Chris Kisgen: bass
Kristin Kanady: lovely harmonies as always
God: still in charge

Recorded at Blue Creek Valley Farm Studio in Oxford NC in 2008
Copyright 1/28/2023
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