Songfacts®:

• "There Was A Light Here" is Ryan Clark's memorial to his late mother, Margaret Ellen Clark. Written at the last minute to express a level of grief he felt the rest of the material hadn't quite captured, the track became both the closing song and the title track of Demon Hunter's 2025 album.
• The lyrics process loss through recurring imagery of gardens, water, memory, mothers, and daughters, ultimately finding comfort in the idea that a loved one's presence lives on:
  
  When the night is at its darkest
  In the quiet of your heart you will know
  There was a light here
• Clark wrote much of the record while actively grieving. Speaking to Full Metal Jackie, he described the songwriting process as "very cathartic," adding: "It's not like me to be very vocal in real life about that sort of thing. I'd rather kind of save it for the songs."
  
  Crafting the music gave him a necessary outlet for emotions he otherwise would have kept bottled up.
• The title track was the very last piece written for the record. Before performing it at the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, Clark told the audience the band had nearly finished recording and already had a different album title in mind. However, he realized he hadn't yet written a song that properly captured what he was feeling, or one he felt his mother would have truly loved. Once he finished "There Was A Light Here," he knew it belonged at the very end of the tracklist and the entire record needed to take its name.
• Visually, Clark took a much more hands-on approach for the There Was A Light Here album cycle. He directed and edited the music videos himself, while guitarist Jeremiah Scott handled the filming. Clark chose to self-produce the visuals to keep costs down, allowing the band to release more videos independently.