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sonatina3 - time and season

from Life [2HAC Volume 25] by Various Artists

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Song written by sonatina3
Website: sara-garrard.com
Watch this song get made: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvkBXtgD5CIArELvA2hjtA (to be posted)

Theme Interpretation: Via a collage of poems I had a way too much to say —

'Life is very long and also very brief; we’re marvels and monsters, horrendous things happen to people every day, and humans are only a tiny part of life on earth anyways, which is microscopic dot in the scheme of things — how does one keep any of this straight and go on functioning? is there anything more to it still? Most times all we can grasp is human comfort and companionship, well that’s far from nothing, may it grant us glimpses of empathy — and is that what incarnation means, horrifying and hopeful —'

Previously I've pretty much used public domain poems wholesale — this time was a bit of a mix of piecing together a whole bunch of different things, with some of my own words too in the end.

A few challenges ago I remember people were saying about doing the lyrics before the two hours so I did spend a while on that this time, not writing the whole lyric but assembling things and starting to get them in order.

Ada Cambridge ('The Hand in the Dark'), RL Stevenson ('Grown about with fragrant bushes…'), a few Psalms (8 and 104), Song of Songs; I was going at one point to do a rewrite of 'How Great Thou Art' before realising that’s in copyright apparently so I've just barely alluded to half a line, ditto TS Eliot: 'The Hollow Men' for background reading. I don't convey the message of any single one of these as such but sort of engage with them and have them in dialogue with each other.

Software used: Logic, sampletekk piano

lyrics

the moon marks the seasons
the sun knows when to set
the foxes roam the quiet streets from dusk
(and so and so and so)
get up, get dressed for work
observe the wonder of the bones of the human hand
we are mortal, infinitesimal, divine
a little lower than the angels

our island is alive with marvels
the birds sing in the branches
grown about with fragrant bushes
a winding valley where a clear stream flows
and green grass grows
and the sheep bells and the linnets chime and sing

how calm the starry city but beneath
the million-fibred heart of humanity
is twisted with every grief
our comrades homeless, beaten, maimed
how can I sleep in peace
and this is life - pointless to ask
and these things happen

the moon marks the seasons...

at the best of times, in the midst of life
slips between us like a shadow
between your lips and my kiss, the motion and the act
between the past and the future
those two black infinities
where our brief life flashes a moment and goes out

the moon marks the seasons...

and wasn't this after all the meaning of incarnation
a full life, thirty-three
work and laughter, family
headaches and haircuts, itches, homesickness
drinking with friends, meetings and partings and prayers
when I think -
walking to the site of execution
when I consider
the bones of your hands irretrievably smashed
I cannot fathom:
these things happened

sunrise on the shore
tend the fire, warm your hands
the one who lived and died and lives again
cooking breakfast for his friends

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from Life [2HAC Volume 25], released January 15, 2024

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