Skydiving

Skydiving

how do I say this nicely?

how do I say this nicely?
i don’t want to be there when you go

i don’t want to be there when you go, i want to be somewhere the waves are high

and the wind is strong and the earth can swallow me, smiling

somewhere i can be with you, not your dying body?

when you went to hospital i took up skydiving

figured i could meet you half-way

and drag you back down

i hope you don’t miss me

coz i sure don’t miss your dying face

i hope you understand

its so hard not to die frowning

Listen here (there are several minutes of silence at the end which is why it looks odd):
https://soundcloud.com/toby-graham-music/how-do-you/s-VIepH

The Mirror

Some ideas that once again could all be fleshed out much more, and I would want them to be. I think I struggle with the completion thing and it's okay that my month of music submissions aren't complete pieces. The lazy artist within needs there to be a pulsating deadline, the heat of which is singing her eyebrows, for the ideas to be squeezed out enough to be a complete piece. I mean, there is midnight every day. But still. 

I imagine this would be a movement of about 4 minutes. There would be electronic accompaniment. Maybe I'll make some recordings for it tomorrow. Oh there are lyrics missing at the top of page 2. They should be fairly guessable... (lazy lazy)

Unto whatever face of things we turn 

The mirror, things of form and hue the same 

Respond.

- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Poem IV

translated by William Ellery Leonard

Intermezzo: The Cup

This is a setup to use an old gospel magic trick, dyeing water and then making it clear again. Does anyone know any Soprano-magicians? Aside from Barbara Hannigan, who can hide her thumb tips wherever she wants