John Fisher Music

Darkest day is a first for me. One of my closest friends - Jules Gaunt - wrote a poem called ‘Darkest Day’.  He then approached me to read it

& during one of our many music afternoons together whilst playing new tunes to each other & praising bands we have recently come across - between all the “Listen to this, you’ve got to hear these” we had a ‘jam sess’ & turned his poem into a song.  It’s encapsulating the ordeals that he’s battling - living with obsessive compulsive disorder.

How darkness can consume you, enveloping every relationship, your every action & effectively becoming who you are at that period in time.
Until you reach that point where you just plead for this to be the darkest day, as the thought of things deepening & getting worse is just unbearable
I always take the ‘George Micheal’ at him what a happy song it is really - ha
No but - these are his words & he’s lived through this, so it’s a very sincere song.

He’s doing really well these days & has been professionally counseling others for a while now, and his previous experiences have given him such empathy which – while we may project how others feel, could never truly know.

Musically this is a song with a lot of grit. I love its energy & push.  There’s a nice underlying piano, which a counter melody vocal picks up on towards the end & other overlapping vocals kick in to give it a big finish.  But being acoustically driven it never gets too over the top.

Darkest day by John Fisher - lyrics

I never thought darkness could creep
In so many forms
Underneath, deep within
And coming down from above
Wrapping itself in
And around all that I love

And I inhale it
While I sleep
While I breathe
While I eat
While I am
And I am
Yes I am

I never would have thought
I never could have known
That such a terror could be born

And I inhale it
And I am
Yes I am

Please make this my darkest day
Please make this my darkest day

Shadow’s embrace pulls me under
I can’t feel my feet, I stumble
Down and down