Classical Music | Soprano

Recorded on 03/26/2015, uploaded on 03/26/2015

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CYCLE written 1985-94 -- Live video of premiere   ---

Texts of  FINAL THREE SONGS in  Cycle : All Texts By The Composer : 

7. The Perfume of a Lie 

When the breeze of your love first blew through my life

I Inhaled it like Maltese jasmine

The cold scent of dead flames

I thought never to return

But wrap up evil

No matter how pretty the package

Eventually the rot will sicken you!!

Perhaps there would not be

Another fissure in my heart

If I had realized what I was breathing

In the shadow of your deceptive smile

Was yet one more untruth

So now I’m drowned in the hideous stench

of The Perfume of a Lie !

8. The Blood Donors

It’s been said, that people in love give all.

Well, I’m not anymore.

Unrequited foolishness

Like the needles thay have punctured.. more than my soul

Because I've given everything...

My youth, my faith, my trust,

and all I have left...

is plasma dripping from a gaping addict's tracks !

Love, I’ve opened my very veins for you...

and given the very life blood of my body.

I’ve carried torches that always burnt my hand

I’ve built castles made with too much lie-ridden sand.

And now my ghostly reflections stares at me from broken

mirrors on the floor

And all I see: regret that throbs with every breath

and from all the blood loss...

A pallor like death.

I won't be one of the blood donors

anymore.

 9. Wherever There’s Tomorrow

Too many Dreams torn to tatters

Too much love no one else thought matters

But still here I am, Here, I am.

Not enough emotion ever given in return ,

and I always say that I'll leave,

but I don't. And I always say that I’ll forgive,

but I don't. But still here I am.

Here, I am.

Libraries of lies all filed in the age in my eyes

All my naiveté burnt to cinders

My youth may be gone, But I’m not.

So still here I am.

Too much dirt in my life never cleansed. And too much evil

never avenged.

I’ve always met all my emotional destruction head on with my granite stare!

So wherever there’s tomorrow, There I'll be.

So wherever there’s tomorrow, There I'll be.