LIGHT THE LANTERNS - MYSTERIOUS SONG - UNKNOWN ARTIST

[@mr.midnight1997]

Imagine this: there are billions of people in the world, most are not special, most will be forgotten. You put out a song or any other piece of work. But you go uncredited, you become a complete unknown and your work, your voice, your face or even a part of your name, are the only proof of your existence. Your only impact on this world. Overtime, your work may be forgotten too. It might be preserved and saved for all to see or fade away into the night, never to be seen, or heard from again. Regardless, your work, what you created, what you made, is the only thing that tells others that you were once alive, that you once existed. Your face, name or even voice may not be known, but your work is remembered, as proof you once existed...

[@BlackCat-ul6ef]

You know that old saying: " you die twice: once, when you take your final breath, second when your name is spoken for the final time"? There should be a third death, that being when everyone forgets what you did in life.

[@mr.midnight1997]

@@BlackCat-ul6ef Or just completely forgotten.

[@Gameover-bo3xl]

Listening to obscure unknown songs like this is like listening to a ghost

[@BlackCat-ul6ef]

@@mr.midnight1997 That too.

[@BlackCat-ul6ef]

@@Gameover-bo3xl Kind of haunting, isn't it?

[@stephenpegnam9876]

How does a song as lovely as this one is become lost?

[@christeena108]

Found it on a old fourm it's made form a old cassette tape called "legacy" and the song on there is called crazy ladies in gingerbread houses by HAZLEWOOD *grace Griffith and Susan white* there is that. Only one was made never to see the light of the lanterns again.

[@davidarkham8716]

No, that was a lead, but the album was published online and did not contain this song. Susan herself even confirmed that this is not a "Hazelwood" song. Still, the Legacy album is awesome, I highly recommend.

[@johnstahlman9767]

This is honestly the best Neil Young song not written by Neil Young

[@BlackCat-ul6ef]

LYRICS: She was born on a magic island, there's a certain mythology. I was already on the outside, I wanted to be what I wanted to be. She took me to illumination night to pass on a legacy. Crazy ladies in gingerbread houses, light the lanterns for the shipwreck sailors. Celebrate the homecoming, celebrate the moment when the will to live collides with love. Light the lanterns everyone and pray that the rain won't come. She left me with grace the next year, she went away, I don't know where. Grace got drunk at a Chinese restaurant, so all I saw was the light's extinguishing. But I'm going back on illumination night, to see if I can light the lights. Crazy ladies in gingerbread houses, light the lanterns for the shipwreck sailors. Celebrate the homecoming, celebrate the moment when the will to live collides with love. Light the lanterns everyone and pray that the rain won't come. Crazy ladies in gingerbread houses, light the lanterns for the shipwreck sailors. Celebrate the homecoming, celebrate the moment when the will to live collides with love. Light the lanterns everyone and pray that the rain won't come.

[@minminszn9272]

This song is absolutely beautiful I’m so glad I found this mystery

[@lneedtherapy]

YOU WHAT!

[@ieatforeskindotcom]

Say sike right now

[@alexthehidingninja]

Proof?

[@emomcscreamo6624]

@@alexthehidingninja they found the mystery they didnt solve the mystery. the reason that you're here is because you too found the mystery, haha :)

[@alexthehidingninja]

@@emomcscreamo6624 oh.

[@Mr.Obongo]

This is absolutely 70’s so start searching there. Song slaps btw, dunno how this didn’t gain mainstream success.

[@beltnet97]

It was found in the 1980s possibly 1985-1989

[@davidarkham8716]

​@@beltnet97It was found in 1985 in a cabinet in an office in LA. But who knows when it was recorded? Could have been 70s.

[@empiricaltheory6650]

I really like the most popular mysterious song, but this one is my favorite. I wish it had more attention.

[@Pepperroni_McRoni]

Light The Lanterns feels like a late 1970s song

[@thegreatpapyrus1518]

It has some 80s instruments. Probably made by people who maintained the 70s style.

[@rogerdodger1984]

The kind of people that pray the rain wont come.

[@johnstahlman9767]

@@thegreatpapyrus1518 perhaps from the Paisley Underground scene? It sounds very Californian.

[@vortextoyesterday]

this song has been stuck in head and i can't get it out!

[@enitenit2791]

Isn't this momma cass/cass elliot???? Like from the mommas and papas???? or am i shitting myself????

[@minminszn9272]

It does definitely sound similar

[@mito_miroou5053]

Всем привет! Возможно, вы меня сейчас не поймете, но я все же надеюсь, что эта прекрасная песня будет найдена в ближайшее время! Всем прекрасного дня!

[@averyjudgementalsoldier8303]

I used a translator. I also hope this song is found.

[@Cat3465]

This song is next to get found after Just A Game

[@thisisnotyourhandle.]

:hollow:

[@kldmonre]

Will the search for this ever revive?

[@bdijhq]

It already revived

[@kldmonre]

@@bdijhq I posted this roughly a week before the revival

[@thegreatpapyrus1518]

For some reason, I feel this is gonna he a hard one to find. Harder than EKT. It just seems so not mainstream.

[@lon34ngel20]

Plus i heard the original tape had “demo” written on it, so probably not a lot of copies…and the story seems rather personal

[@thegreatpapyrus1518]

We need to find this one the most and Just a Game, In honor of Gabor, (the original uploader) sadly passing away.

[@peathreal]

i agree, i’ve been doing my best to find it but sadly i don’t even think it’s on the internet… but i come back almost everyday to see if it got found because this song is just soooo good and i refuse to believe it’s lost😭

[@averyjudgementalsoldier8303]

You probably already know this, but just a game was found.

[@RobloxGaming_1000]

This song better then Taylor Swift lol

[@aGoosenamedJordan]

I need chords and tabs for this song

[@nickd8016]

Apparently some people think this song is by Hazelwood, but I think it's fake. It's confusing when many people say different things.

[@YoYo-3105]

People wanna write a false narrative and get clout or fame, this song is definetly a real thing, lost and unnamed for decades, unanimous singer, its a tragedy but reality that we'll never get to find out who made this, everyone knows that, blind the wind, and others

[@zeus9322]

@@YoYo-3105 True, It’s really a shocker that EKT was found but the others might be lost forever sadly, but I could be very wrong

[@davidarkham8716]

​@@YoYo-3105The Hazelwood lead seemed promising, but was debunked. But Hazelwood does indeed slap.

[@thegreatpapyrus1518]

I still think Hazlewood wrote the song. There are too many coincidences...

[@bdijhq]

I think it's Trisha Yearwood. Everything we know about it connected with her it's just connecting.

[@davidarkham8716]

But Susan herself said it's not.

[@stephenpegnam9876]

How does a song as lovely as this one is become lost?