Songs for Dreamers: The Problemist Songbook
Songs for Dreamers: The Problemist Songbook collects the lyrics, poems, and artistic writings of William Davenport, - musician, interdisciplinary artist, and longtime outsider - spanning decades of work that never flinched from the world as it actually is.
These are songs about the alarm clock that steals your morning before you've finished loving someone. About the soldier whose body came home but whose self stayed in the sand. About the immigrant crossing a border that was always someone else's idea. About the mother whose sacrifice got filed under naturally and the dreams she never named because no one showed her they existed. About the borrowed weight we carry - the part that's ours, and the larger part that was written for us by men in rooms we never entered.
Rooted in the restless interdisciplinary spirit of the futurists and dadaists, shaped by Lou Reed and David Bowie and late-night radio and the particular clarity of being an outsider, Davenport writes songs that hold both the personal and the political without letting either off the hook. The grief is real. So is the joy - that stubborn, stupid, beautiful, defiant human joy that no system designed to break people has ever quite managed to extinguish.
Songs for Dreamers is a record of who was here. Who built the world. Who paid for it. And who refused, in the end, to be written out.
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