"Civil Twilight," the first song from the Candelabra Sessions, is a portrait of the period of time between sunset and when the sun is six degrees below the horizon. It usually lasts about thirty minutes. In most cases, artificial light is not needed to carry out normal outdoor activites during this time.

...Over the past year, I have been reading a tremendously beautiful and tragically disgusting book by Chuck Palahniuk called Haunted. Of course, there's a story in the book called "Civil Twilight." This tale addresses the need for people to believe in a monster in order for them to be afraid of it. In the story, an invisible monster kills people during dusk. But, because no one can see it, no one believes it's really there.

With songwriting, everything comes from somewhere. I never know what's going to set me off and inspire me to create. One thing that I like to do is to reflect on what I read, what I watch, and to what I listen. In the case of reading this story, I proceeded to write down some thoughts and feelings I immediately had at it's conclusion. I read this story a few times and wrote different things at the close of it. That saying about art not being created in a vacuum...well, that's pretty much 100% true. It's important that you create your own idea from the inspiration, though. Palahniuk's story inspired the thoughts that inspired this song. Make sense?

Lyrically, I attempted to create a portrait of things that typically go through my mind at any given sunset. Why are we here? Where do we go after this? Is there some reality being presented to me on a daily basis that I haven't deciphered as of yet? What does this mean? That's the gist of the song.