My Better Self

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My Better Self
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Studio album by
Dar Williams
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2005 (2005-09-13)
Genre Folk
Length49:56
Label Razor & Tie
Producer Stewart Lerman
Dar Williams chronology
The Beauty of the Rain
(2003)		My Better Self
(2005)		 Promised Land
(2008)
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My Better Self is the sixth album by singer/songwriter Dar Williams. It was released on September 13, 2005, by Razor & Tie.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Dar Williams, except where noted.

  1. "Teen for God" – 3:28
  2. "I'll Miss You Till I Meet You" – 4:27
  3. "Echoes" (Jules Shear, Rob Hyman, Stewart Lerman) – 3:59
  4. "Blue Light of the Flame" (Williams, Hyman) – 3:05
  5. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (Neil Young) – 4:28
  6. "Two Sides of the River" – 4:09
  7. "Empire" – 3:47
  8. "Comfortably Numb" (Roger Waters, David Gilmour) – 5:26
  9. "So Close to My Heart" – 3:11
  10. "Beautiful Enemy" – 3:10
  11. "Liar" – 2:58
  12. "You Rise and Meet the Day" – 3:06
  13. "The Hudson" – 4:38

The album was released with different bonus tracks depending on the vendor. Copies bought at Borders bookstores included a live recording of "And a God Descended" and Barnes & Noble customers got a live rendition of "I Saw a Bird Fly Away".

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Mason, Stewart. My Better Self at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Whitman, Andy (9 November 2005). "Dar Williams - My Better Self". Paste Magazine. No. 18. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2025.


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