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Catalog: Song Information: Page 1 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "(And So Love Passed Through a Nude Woman)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:10 Starts by recalling the first song - proud, strong; and gains in intensity, the piano configuration subdividing to become a blur of rapidly alternating chords. Voice ends on a long high G on 'End', down to Bb for 'of' (half-note with fermata) and low D for 'Earth'. Text Comments: And so love passed through a Nude Woman. My sun was in your moon, astrologically fixed forever In the universe of your faithlessness, My spirit distilled in your flame To pure sapphire-veined gold. The fanatic is gone, The formula, acid-engraved on my soul, My heart a glowing coal, fiances hotly with Galaxies, Liver and spleen pure rock-crystal, My body a transmitter of rare and charged Energy from distant planets while Our milky ways curse and rumble On the edge of space, violent configurations Of the End of Earth. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(But, Beware, Beloved, Ptolemy Women Engender Violence)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:20 Fast word-setting - at first funny, then becoming darker as the litany of murders and incest comes up to the present. Hard to deliver because the text is hard to follow, especially at speed. Text Comments: But beware, beloved, Ptolemy women engender violence, Command money, men, and manumission. Cleopatra revels in infanticide, regicide, and patricide. Ptolemy the builder of the museum fathered Ptolemy II, who exiled his wife to marry his sister. Ptolemy IV murdered his father, brother, and mother; Married his sister but murdered her. Ptolemy V married Cleopatra and fathered Ptolemy VI, who married his sister Cleopatra, who Married both her two brothers, of which one brother, Ptolemy VIII, murdered his child by Cleopatra out of Vengeance on this wife and sister when she became queen. He then married his wife Cleopatra's daughter by her Second husband, his brother and she, his niece. Ptolemy VII, murdered by his father and uncle, who had Married his mother, who was also his sister, whom he Murdered on her wedding night, was also brother to Ptolemy IX, the other son murdered by his father, Or his aunt, or his half-sister. Ptolemy X married his sister Cleopatra, but Ptolemy XI murdered his mother Cleopatra. Ptolemy XII married his cousin Cleopatra but murdered Her and was himself murdered by the people. Ptolemy X, a son of Ptolemy XII, fathered a Cleopatra whom he murdered to regain the throne, Leaving this Cleopatra beside you and her two brothers, Ptolemy XIV, who drowned fleeing a lost battle, and Ptolemy XV, whom I, Cleopatra, married and murdered. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(I Scatter Before You Like Pollen)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:20 Graceful - in 6/8, should smolder. Text Comments: I scatter before you like pollen Opening like a boulevard of Lebanon cedars, Leaflets of other loves fluttering in a cyclone of chariots My eyes, no longer rimmed with kohl, Stare blankly into hurricaned space. The twin asps of desire and despair Glisten in polished armor at each breast. You are smeared with my ash, Your forehead marked With my sacrificial sign, Its white imprint rising like hieroglyphics. Ah, beloved Incense Burner, Trailing the burnt-out cinders Of your Exits and Entrances. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(O Friendly Enemy, We Have Loved)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 3:30 Stark, full of loss, much of the song with no piano accompaniment or just a held chord. Text Comments: O friendly enemy, we have loved, Loin and haunch, limb and flank, truth and lies, Tressed like a pair of ancient Armenian vines Grown together root and branch in stunted Commingling without End or Beginning. If we part, you will leave with half of me, Or I with half of you, and nothing will kill The pain of dismembering. That ache like some rare jewel Will hang round our necks to touch, In tender tremulance, an old wound of amputation That burns and groans in limbs no longer existent But splintered and crushed In some long-forgotten and useless War. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(The Lover's Total Death in Your Cool Limbs)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:30 Difficult piano introduction (lots of thick chords moving quickly). High Bb on 'drowned' jumped to from an octave below. The high C# on 'e-quatorial' is very short, approached from a G# below and immediately jumping down to a C# an octave below. A passionate song. Text Comments: The lover's total death in your cool limbs Pale and doomed and it seems without life Clutching my flanks like a drowned man, Know that I love you, That door after door will open for you, That avenue after avenue will part for you, That continent after continent will divide for you. The equatorial heat of Africa is nothing compared to The heat of my Ptoleminian blood, rich and prancing, Made for passion's diadem, Love's ardors dried, like a garland round my hips. I dream myself back into the night and pull the hair Out of your shaggy breast until you cry out Knowing that I love you. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(The Moon Rises Over Your Left Shoulder)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 3:30 Quietly spacey fragments move round and round in the piano part. Against this the voice covers a wide tessitura Text Comments: The moon rise over your left shoulder Ah, night beauty, did we love in other lives? Haunted since Persepolis by this invention? Your face hungry lives A hundred incarnations under mine, Hair frayed like a winter chrysanthemum, Golden eagle! Blue steel under pale lashes, Antonius! Three centuries since Alexander Haven't changed you - I know you! This is not The first thunder but a thousand-year recognition! I remember you from the young planet, King of Macedon and godson of Caesar. Like your soldiers, I would as soon die for you As dine at Amimetobioi. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "(Winged by my Multifeathered Flexed Knees)"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:40 Commanding, imperious. Difficult piano introduction. Text Comments: Winged by my multifeathered flexed knees, Soft down'd in peacock colors, My triangle pressed against your chest, Connecting the three points Of your flesh's compass, A nude woman flies South towards Summer - As the swallow flies, By degree and nature Crowned and earring'd by love, My hair a ragged river flowing Towards your sea - black tributaries Raking your beaches, where in the Turquoise-veined granite of Hammamet I build my monument. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "...Silently Dispersing"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Trance-like, free" half note = ca. 54. Segues from previous song, Christmas Night. bitter, defeated; Russell Platt compares it to "Der Leiermann," from Winterreise. Text Comments: I pass my days--and my nights, partly--at this window. I am sure our army is silently dispersing. Men are going the wrong way all the time. They slip by now with no songs or shouts. They have given the thing up. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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