Recorded on 10/06/2013, uploaded on 03/26/2015
Musician's or Publisher's Notes
CYCLE written 1985-94 -- Video of premiere ---
Texts of SECOND THREE SONGS of 9 in Cycle : All Texts By The Composer :
4. The Murders of April
There comes a time in the nadir of winter,
When a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts
of springtime’s passion
But it me it’s full of dread
Because every love I’ve given life to
Ends up irretrievably dead
So please, don't let springtime’s emotions start
because you see
All the Murders of April
Have occurred in my heart!
For every April Love I have ever begin to feel
Ends Up being so painfully unreal
For every evil girl
Takes my heart as her hostage, so please,
Please don't let the murders of April start,
The slayings of my heart!
Please don't let them start
5, 7. Diamonds of the Morning
Youth is as fleeting
As the diamonds of the morning
That give way to harshest light
That’s why we stand here, attempting to capture the night.
Romantic drivel, and regrets
We espouse.
Everyone who stares at the darkness of then,
looking for now.
Foolish Idealists, who stand here while
everyone else keeps living
Ignoring that if you had listened sooner,
you wouldn’t be here at all.
Asking too many questions
Like...
Why am I holding no flowers? Why thorns are all I’ve got?
Why do people always have to pay for feeling... and never for not?
Romantic drivel, we’ll keep touting. And keep asking the Dusky Diamonds of the Morning.
Ignoring that
They don't know
6. The Train
The tarnished silver of my youth, is forever tainted
And I wonder still, how it got that way
I had thought the glow was everlasting
I had hoped the gray was only passing
But now I fear, that my youth is gone forever
As the lights from the train I once saw casting
And now the train
has left the station
with my childhood upon it
And as death stares at me from his compartment
As now I see that from the salt of my tears that his window
has begin to crack
As that final train
goes down the track.
Classical Music | Soprano
P. Kellach Waddle
SONG CYCLE: Neither Have Been Found; Elegies of Lost Youth and Lost Love-- Second 3 songs of 9 Play
Recorded on 10/06/2013, uploaded on 03/26/2015
Musician's or Publisher's Notes
CYCLE written 1985-94 -- Video of premiere ---
Texts of SECOND THREE SONGS of 9 in Cycle : All Texts By The Composer :
4. The Murders of April
There comes a time in the nadir of winter,
When a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts
of springtime’s passion
But it me it’s full of dread
Because every love I’ve given life to
Ends up irretrievably dead
So please, don't let springtime’s emotions start
because you see
All the Murders of April
Have occurred in my heart!
For every April Love I have ever begin to feel
Ends Up being so painfully unreal
For every evil girl
Takes my heart as her hostage, so please,
Please don't let the murders of April start,
The slayings of my heart!
Please don't let them start
The slayings of my heart!
5, 7. Diamonds of the Morning
Youth is as fleeting
As the diamonds of the morning
That give way to harshest light
That’s why we stand here, attempting to capture the night.
Romantic drivel, and regrets
We espouse.
Everyone who stares at the darkness of then,
looking for now.
Foolish Idealists, who stand here while
everyone else keeps living
Ignoring that if you had listened sooner,
you wouldn’t be here at all.
Asking too many questions
Like...
Why am I holding no flowers? Why thorns are all I’ve got?
Why do people always have to pay for feeling... and never for not?
Romantic drivel, we’ll keep touting. And keep asking the Dusky Diamonds of the Morning.
Ignoring that
They don't know
6. The Train
The tarnished silver of my youth, is forever tainted
And I wonder still, how it got that way
I had thought the glow was everlasting
I had hoped the gray was only passing
But now I fear, that my youth is gone forever
As the lights from the train I once saw casting
And now the train
has left the station
with my childhood upon it
And as death stares at me from his compartment
As now I see that from the salt of my tears that his window
has begin to crack
As that final train
goes down the track.
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