A Dickinson Lament

I wrote and recorded a small EP for my class. I thought I would post the lyrics here and eventually (hopefully) the songs themselves. All the music is original and the lyrics to an unreturned letter are as well. The other 4 are Dickinson poems.

The tracks are as follows:

1. 1535

She could not live

upon the past

the present

did not know her

and so she sought

this sweet at last

and nature

gently owned her

the mother

has not a knell

for either duke

or robin

2. Love Sense

The incidents of love

are more than its events-

investments best expositor

is the minute per the cents-

3. Maker

My maker

Let me be

Enamored

Most of thee

But nearer this

I more should miss-

4. Nobody

I'm nobody

who are you

are you nobody too

Then there's a pair of us

Don't tell

They'd advertise

you know

How dreary to be somebody

How public like a frog

mmmm

mmmm

mmmm

mmmm

How dreary to be somebody

How public like a frog

To tell one's name

the live long day

to an admiring bog

I'm nobody

Who are you

Are you nobody too?

Then there's a pair of us

Don't tell

They'd advertise

you know

oooooh

5. An Unreturned Letter

You don't want to walk anymore

You don't feel the same as before

And the things I know you adore

Are not the same as they were

But the birds

and the streets

and the cars

and the trees

are all the same as before

I don't want to run through the woods

I don't want to stand

where you stood

So the fall is bringing the leaves

And I am leaving in peace

And the birds

and the streets

and the cars

and the trees

are all the same as they were.