Monday, November 13, 2017

Familiarity - Lamentations of the Heart



This is entitled "Lamentations of the Heart."  It sounds very much like a song I wrote back in 1988 when I moved to South Africa. Of course, Philip Wesley is a much more accomplished pianist than I, and he took his instrumental piece to the next level.  My song was written from the heart of a 18-year old, missing home, missing the one she left behind that said he would wait for her.

I never wrote the sheet music for it, but once in a while will sit at my mother's ancient upright piano, and my fingers well remember, and some of the words come back to me...




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    1. Interesting how one can have a soundtrack to one's life...

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    1. That was then... no sorrow now, only reflection. The melody is what touches me... it was powerful. Shadows... I am beginning to loathe that word, and it's presence.

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