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Prelude: Fireflies
01:45
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Autumn Dark
04:30
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On a night of autumn dark
I dissolve myself into the park
In the wind the branches sigh
Speak to me of faces, lives gone by
Floating stumbling images I used to know
Lives I’ve lived seem never to have been
Was it I who walked down these paths long ago
Was it I who dreamed
Where do I go on from here
All the doors have shut or simply disappeared
As the light pales through the sky
In the mute cold glow all barren lies
Spirits turned to ghosts like in a childhood dream
Mysteries resolve into a dew
Memories of enchanted days and seraphim
Who spread wings and flew
As I lay me down to sleep
As I pray the lord my souls to keep
For I’ve died and I have woke
And in autumn mornings my heart broke
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Interlude: Rain Dance
03:12
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Haunted House
04:24
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Things go bump at night
Deliver me a fright
They never seem to stand still
Books fall from the shelves
Read by some former selves
With verses that portend ill
Shapes form in the air
Entangle in my hair
My mind has become a haunted house
It never seems to settle
My mind has become a haunted house
It’s full of dying petals from a rose
Things I’m sure have died
Are right here by my side
As if they’ve never left me
My mind has become a haunted house
It shakes at every hour
My mind has become a haunted house
I’ve never had a flower that survived
A floorboard’s eerie creak
A distant curdled shriek
They keep me up till morning
Lovers from the past
I’ve put to rest at last
Still sing me songs of longing
My mind has become a haunted house
It never seems to settle
My mind has become a haunted house
The tea boils in the kettle on its own
A freezing draft in June
The door howls at the moon
A light that always flickers
Faces in the glass
A constant smell of gas
And angry furtive whispers
The basement steps they squeak
I dare not take a peak
At what I think is lurking there
I don’t know when
Things got so out of hand
The cleanup I’ve been shirking
My mind has become a haunted house
My mind has become a haunted house
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Interlude: After Hours
03:35
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Stay
02:34
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Sleep and wake
Love keep and forsake
Don’t stop to think
Where’s the one
Up and down
Run then turn around
Don’t wonder if
There is a path
Once I knew where I did not belong
Forgotten the words to the wrong song
Now it seems I’ve gone astray
Leave linger or stay
Always question the way
Is it ok
For today
Will you stay?
Will you stay?
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Jay Vilnai New York
"the missing link between Rasputina and Bernard Herrmann"
A composer and performer with
versatile abilities, Vilnai’s music draws on everything from Balkan music, blues, a plethora of jazz styles and Western concert music. Whether writing for chamber ensembles, performing, or producing his own recordings, his music deals with ritual and social activity, folk music elements and a sense of song.
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