Black Motorcycle Rebel Club have given us great music over the years (Howl is one of our favorite albums of this millennium). Tragedy struck the band while out on tour in 2010 when Michael Been, band-member Robert Levon Been’s father and BRMC’s longtime sound engineer, passed away suddenly. You oldsters will recall that the elder Been was a member of the popular ’80s rock group The Call. Watch below as they pay homage on KEXP (filmed in apropos black-and-white) to Michael Been by performing The Call’s powerful song Let The Day Begin. And then watch them perform the lullingly-sweet song Lullaby, in all its beauty and Edge-guitarness (the song’s lyrics are at bottom).  Both songs can be found on their most recent album Specter at the Feast.

Lullaby:

“You are the sun to the earth
You are the light of this world
Won’t you see
Why won’t you see
You are an arm I cant reach
You are the words I can’t speak
Won’t you say
Why wont you say

I will walk till I’ve no shadow
I will walk till I’ve no shadow

You twist the light in your hands
Losing thoughts so you move you can’t give
Reasons fall from every storm that you lived
We move through the dark, helpless

You are the quiet in my soul
You are the pieces of gold
Won’t you shine
Why won’t you shine

I will walk till I’ve no shadow
I will walk till I’ve no shadow
I will walk till I’ve no shadow”