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NIGHTSONGS: Three Lullabies

by Daniel Paul Lawson

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NIGHTSONGS follows the nocturnal path of a lover cursed with unrequited love. The lover is desirous of sleep, wanting an escape from the living torment of having found no returned affection.

In the first song, the lover recognizes the isolation and loneliness that comes with loving and finding no love in return.

The middle song expresses the anger to which the lover has come in desperation.

The third is the freeing release––the lover comforting the soul, encouraging it to thrive in the darkness. Amid the repetitious pangs of unreturned devotion, the soul is coaxed to sleep by the lover’s lullabies, finding solace in the things it loves best: “Night, sleep, and the stars.”

lyrics

I. ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT - Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.


II. HIS HEART WAS DARKER - Emily Dickinson

His Heart was darker than the starless night
For that there is a morn
But in this black Receptacle
Can be no Bode of Dawn


III. A CLEAR MIDNIGHT - Walt Whitman

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.

credits

released March 15, 2010
Soprano: Anne Gross
Piano: Daniel Paul Lawson

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