Original Song: How High Can I Glow In The Dark
Song & Video Production by Shavon
A Sound Legion Production
Using Tools: Sonar 7, Band Lab, Suno, ChatGpt, Artlist, Sony Vegas
How High Can I Glow in the Dark is a song about finding light when everything familiar goes out.
The video takes place in a large warehouse-style art studio apartment during a storm. The power is out. Lightning flashes through the windows. Candles become the only source of light. Paint covers the space, the floors, the furniture, the couch, a living, breathing record of every emotion that’s already passed through the room.
She moves through the darkness gathering paint, pouring it into a white bucket, throwing it onto a blank canvas, spreading it with her hands. Eventually she sinks to the floor, covered in color, exhausted, vulnerable. Her face is painted in my familiar fragmented style, a visual language I return to when I’m expressing being broken open and still alive.
Then the transformation begins.
The paint explodes into color. It wraps around her, pours through her, lifts her. She becomes something else entirely, a living expression of color, light, and creation. A reminder that even in the dark, something inside us still glows.
This song comes from a period of deep emotional transition in my life, letting go of what no longer fits, sitting in uncertainty, and asking an honest question:
How high can I glow in the dark before I’m afraid to be seen?
I created this project independently from start to finish.
Tools used:
Sonar 7, BandLab, Suno, ChatGPT, Artlist, Sony Vegas
There is an earlier demo version of this song using a free-use instrumental. This release is the final, fully realized original version, the finished song and video as they were meant to exist.
This isn’t about escaping the darkness.
It’s about discovering what shines because of it.
Thank you for watching, listening, and holding space for this moment.
— Shavon / Bonnie Legion / Sound Legion
A Full Length new album is coming soon! This will be my 17th Full Length Album release amongst over 2000 songs and 750 official releases.
Working with Artlist and A.I. Image generation has been beyond a dream for me, I am still learning and really see myself growing in this area. I hope you enjoy the visuals as I take original photos of myself with original face paintings and incorperate them into the characters in my videos.
Lyrics :
How High Can I Glow In The Dark by Shavon
Hush my words, I brought ’em out too slowly
Won’t let ’em know all the things you showed me
I seem fine but I’m just standing still
I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to burn slowly
Edge of a knife, split me down then sew me
Hold my hand, I’m lost in my afterlife
All of this love, I don’t want to lose you
Can’t let go, not enough to choose you
Burning inside but I can’t seem to glow
Please forgive all the words I’ve broken
All messed up by the fears I’ve spoken
Let’s see how high I can glow in the dark
Calm my chest, oh the world is painful
Can’t explain, fill it up, just a drain full
Step outside of me, I am blocking the light
So much rain, I don’t want to tell you
Can’t sustain, won’t heaven or hell you
I’m afraid that I’ll be left in the dark
I don’t want to hate, I don’t hate you
I just want to fly — I’m flying, I can’t take you
Everything is high, it’s too high to fall in the dark
All of this love, I don’t want to lose you
Can’t let go, not enough to choose you
Burning inside but I can’t seem to glow
Please forgive all the words I’ve broken
All messed up by the fears I’ve spoken
Let’s see how high I can glow in the dark