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White Owl
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Sep 13, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Josh Garrels frames this song as a blessing spoken over someone about to leave home, sending them out into a night full of shadowlands and forgotten paths. The imagery is drawn from the natural world: an owl flying by moonlight with open eyes, a serpent and a dove carrying wisdom born of love, a wolf howling at midnight to break the silence that holds others back. Each creature becomes a way of describing how to move through darkness — by instinct, by love, by voice. The repeated promise is that the traveler will never be alone, and that the dreams they have been shown will function like living stone, building them into a home and a shelter from the storm. There is a strong sense of commissioning here, of a threshold being crossed, and the song holds both the fear of the unknown and the assurance that morning will come. The blood on the moon and the coming dawn suggest that the night, however long, is not the final word.
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When the night comes
And you don't know which way to go
Through the shadowlands
And forgotten paths
You will find a road
Like an owl you must fly in moonlight with an open eye
And use your instinct as your guide, to navigate the ways that lays before you
You were born to, take the greatest flight
Like a serpent and a dove, you will have wisdom born of love
And carry visions from above into the places no man dares to follow
Every hollow in the dark of night
Waiting for the light
Take the flame tonight
Cause child the time has come for you to go
You will never be alone
Every dream that you have been shown
Will be like living stone
Building you into a home
A shelter from the storm
Like a messenger of peace, the beauty waits to be released
Upon the sacred path you keep, leading deeper into the unveiling
As your sailing, across the great divide
Like a wolf at midnight howls, you use your voice in darkest hours
To break the silence and the power, holding back the others from their glory
Every story will be written soon
The blood is on the moon
Morning will come soon
Cause child the time has come for you to go
You will never be alone
Every dream that you have been shown
Will be like living stone
Building you into a home
A shelter from the storm