This week I will be away.
I enjoyed the last few weeks of reading various lyrics to hymns, pop music of the last hundred years and then last week with the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. The lyrics without the music, they have a life of their own, sometimes one can only understand them with a tune behind them, or the tune rings through the words, other times they live well all on their own.
The monuments of words, the way we express our soul, it is so often with the sound fashioned into words. And when they combine with music it filters deep into the depths of our memory, body and spirit.
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