This song was performed and produced by Luscious Purr, Mel Yourich and Tracy Salka, at GirlFriend Studios in Hagerstown, MD. Mel wrote this song about one mother's difficult life: from being raised by neglectful and abusive parents in a small coal mining town in southwestern Pennsylvania to marrying an alcoholic. As you will see, she could not escape the pain of constant verbal, physical, and emotional abuse. Her daughter has great empathy for her mother, and she, as her daughter, has lived some of the emotional pain with her mother. Finally, the mother escapes but only because of the inevitable. There is no more looking back for the daughter or her mother. Both are now free.

 

Produced by Melissa “Mel” Yourich entirely. Music produced by Girlfriend Studios and Echoe’s Recording Studio. The video clips used in this were filmed using Canon DSLR t5i , iPhone 6, 8mm. Some clips were purchased from stock video clip site videoblocks.com. Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro rendered at 720 DPI. 2 years of planning and filming and editing finally came together.

 

Full lyrics of “Darker Clouds”

 

Unwanted child

Another mouth to feed

Starving, cold, and passed out on the floor

She steps over me

 

I didn’t graduate

But I made it to the eleventh grade

Pretty green eyed bride

Late December 65

 

Can’t escape, I can’t escapeRunning into darker clouds

 

Cover all the holes

No one needs to know

Innocent babies see

How he treats me

 

DUI’s, Bar room fights,

and welfare lines.

My baby girl is right

I need to leave this life.     

 

Can’t escape, I can’t escape, Running into darker clouds