THE TINDERSTICKS- Waiting for the Moon
Finally, the buzzing back bulb went out, the last light hanging infinitesimally in the air around us. On the grass behind our house, the night became clearer, the stars multiplied by the sudden darkness. Time, however, stood still. The moon was nowhere, lost. This was unusual, of course, even terrifying, but also entirely mesmerizing. The moonless sky was lit from within, flickering with ghostly stars, their twinkling signifying everything that was missing. We held hands and held our breath, waiting in the fantastic quiet of the endless, moonless night. And in this waiting was everything, the absolute, but just like the stars, it was out of reach. Yet, although enigmatic, this eerie twilight was in the end completely welcome and comforting: a question whose answer is unwanted, an empty feeling that makes us full, the unstated providence of the universe - the everlasting waiting for the moon. Available June 10th.
