Pray Tell

Album: Dark is the Way, Light is a Place (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a track from Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin. The song was influenced by the band's 2009 South American tour, where they discovered Brazilian music and its African-influenced percussion. Frontman Stephen Christian recalled recording the tune to Spin Magazine: "It started with the beat and then the music rolled, the lyrics rolled. Then, we got down on the ground in the studio and just started clanging on anything we could find, from 2x4s to the side of a broken tom drum."
  • Lyrically, the song is a cry from Christian to see the "real" faces of people, something that's become harder to do since the band found success. He explained to Spin: "We all have this game face, this show that we put on, but I feel there's more to people than that, and I wanted more out of people than just what they're showing."

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