Tom Woll Photography

For some reason this photo reminded me of the Concrete Blonde song Darkening Of The Light . There are times where a song might inspire me to shoot something but this time the song came to mind after I had processed the image. Click for a larger view Like a ghost is the curtain in the white light of the morning. Dancing in the morning. Are you there?  And a shadow like a sadness falling all across the garden. Dancing in the garden. Are you there? Shine on friend. Goodnight Why, then, the darkening of the light? And the leaves at my feet whisper sounds so familiar. Whisper so familiar are you there?  Where the clouds pull apart, where the moon changes faces in the quiet secret places. Are you there? Shine on friend. Goodnight Why, then, the darkening of the light?

Click for a larger view Window Song by Finger Eleven All the windows are playing their game Where I won't see outside again Til I write all the fog away I'm putting words in their place Between me and the window's pane From my inarticulate brain But all of the fog is erased When I write all the words that I never said To you Now the impulse won't go away "Distracted by something?" you'd say Cause you don't see anything It's just between windows and me Wait til it rains again And I write all the words that I never said To you Will you try to read these lines? Focus hard and give it time Who you are in my life Reads as the water washes Now the dirt on the window is showing I should have drawn something instead The dirt on the window is showing I should never have written my head I should never have written what I never said To you

It seems to happen fairly often that lyrics will inspire an image for me or at least the final outcome of a particular image.   Sometimes I take a shot and when I look at it to process the image a song or part of a some pops into my head.   Here's one where that exact thing happened. Click For A Larger View The poisoned rose That you gave to me It left me half alive And half in ecstasy But if half of your love Is all I can win Give me just a fraction But no more medicine ~~ “The Poisoned Rose “ by Elvis Costello

Click for a larger view And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest  Stranded in the park and forced to confess  To hiding on the backstreets Hiding on the backstreets We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end Hiding on the backstreets ~~Backstreets by Bruce Springsteen

Click For A Larger View  Now I know we can't get there But you won't know unless you try We should all be headin' somewhere If you ain't movin' Then you should ask why  ~~Ride The Wind The James Gang (Tommy Bolin, Roy Kenner)

Click For A Larger View You'll die as you lived In a flash of the blade In a corner forgotten by no one You lived for the touch For the feel of the steel On man, and his honor ~~Flash Of The Blade  By Iron Maiden

Click for a larger view Click for a larger view Through the trees comes autumn with her serenade Melodies the sweetest music ever played Autumn kisses we knew are beautiful souvenirs As I pause to recall the leave seem to fall like tears Silver stars were clinging to an autumn sky Love was ours until October wandered by Let the years come and go I still feel the glow that time can not fade When I hear lovely autumn serenade ~~Autumn Serenade By Peter DeRose & Sammy Gallop

Click for a larger view Those who feel the breath of sadness Sit down next to me Those who find they're touched by madness Sit down next to me Those who find themselves ridiculous Sit down next to me In love, in fear, in hate, in tears ~~James "Sit Down"

Click For A Larger View We can only grow the way the wind blows We can only bow to the here and now Or be broken down blow by blow ~~Rush "The Way The Wind Blows"

Click For A Larger View I tried to be constant just like a star I tried to be steady and yar But the storms keep breaking over my head I'm aching for blue skies instead 'Cause I'm a zephyr on the inside And it's a hard ride when you feel your heart tied down Hide-and-earth bound But there's no tether I'm a zephyr ~~Zephyr By Mary Chapin Carpenter

Click For A Larger View We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride ~~Bruce Springsteen "The River"

Click For A Larger View The roses have faded, there's frost at my door The birds in the morning, don't sing anymore The grass in the valley is starting to die And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry Alone and forsaken by fate and by man Oh Lord, if you hear me, please hold to my hand Oh, please understand ~~ Social Distortion "Alone And Forsaken "

These steps just seemed to lead into someplace very dark. Click For A Larger View Here we go again into the night You took my love and you found a way Can I make it just one more day ~~Drivin' N' Cryin' "Around The Block Again"

Click For A Larger View I don't need no arms around me. And I dont need no drugs to calm me.  I have seen the writing on the wall.  Don't think I need anything at all.  No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.  All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.  All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.  ~Roger Waters  "Another Brick In The Wall Part 3"

Click for a larger view Ready, Set, Get away This is the best day It's the Great Escape  ~~Sister Hazel "Great Escape"

Click for a larger view Shadows of the morning light the shadows of the evening sun till the shadows and the light were one... ~~~Jane's Addiction "Three Days"

Click for a larger view Faith has been broken tears must be cried  Let's do some living after we die  Wild horses, couldn't drag me away  Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday  ~~Mick Jagger/Keith Richards "WIld Horses"

Click for a larger view The night draws near and daylight fades Ignore the voices discard the day For the brand new darkness for the bright new way ~~ The Sisters of Mercy "Light:

I was looking for a particular photo and ran across this one from a while back.   Once again paired it with song lyrics that you might not expect. Click for a larger view Do I sit here in my window box  And watch you pass on by  Do I ease my way onto the ledge  And see if I can fly?  'Cause I've been trapped inside this room But I think that you built me a window  And the sunlight you let in  Is blinding and beautiful  I see through my window  ~~Raven Quinn

Click for  a larger view I wanna build a house where an ad don't scream I wanna live in peace-quietly I wanna have a place of love and safety People oughta live how and where they want People oughta have respect in front People oughta get along pretty O.K ~~Iggy Pop