Jefferson Friedman :: composer: On In Love

Music by Jefferson Friedman and lyics by Craig Wedren.

World premiere: February 12, 2009, Miller Theatre, NYC (Co-commissioned by The Greenwall Foundation and Miller Theatre)

Performed by Craig Wedren and ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble - Caleb Burhans, violin and voice; Benjamin Russell, violin; Nadia Sirota, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello; Yevgeny Faniuk, flute; Gilad Harel, clarinet; Eric Huebner, piano; Christopher Thompson, percussion; Ryan Streber, sound processing)

On in Love (live recording)

I. Refuse To Die
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II. Famous Planets
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III. Tarrying
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Reviewed in The New York Times (February 14, 2009):

LYRICS

REFUSE TO DIE

Refuse to die

We wind

Untie

Unite

The sky

Refuse to die

Beyond the sea

Is golden we

Refuse to die

Hidelick slow

Lace-runshow

Bloody-kneed

Melting snow

Human hearts don’t ask

Act

Enforcing bloody knees

Agent of pleasure-pleads

Sore eyesblink fluttery

Fit you

Arounding me

Grip ceiling

Fuse

Pact

Beneath the apple tree

The dance of worm and bee

Weave swollen fantasy

Wedded

Undeaded we

A million ways

To skin

On skin

A million ways

To skin

On skin

Where day spins fast

Blow

Lost fragrant winds howl

Fragrant spines bow

Entwine ecstatic showers

Toss off rotting years

With manes of light and tears

We’re so actorly

Actually

Of strong home and steed

Your neckseam so sweet

Drunk on meat

Grime and heat

Milkslick sweet

Basement row

Racing

Running

See past your eye

Placing money

See past your eye

Faces humming

See past your eye

Chasing honey

See past your eye

Silk and sun and

See past your eye

Skin undone and

See past your eye

Flesh transitions

See past your eye

Pace positions

See past your eye

On taxi rides home

With you

Half alone

Of course

And with ease

A dawn

Animal

Hidelick slow

Lace-runshow

Bloody-kneed

Melting snow

Demon itch

Sodden inch

Tar and pit

Ticklish

Feed the witch

Trickleflesh

Back to spit

Sweat possess

Rising tide

Might I ride

Drown your town

Flood the ride

Seize you up

Pin you up

Pop you off

Spin your top

FAMOUS PLANETS

My son

My one

Heart and mouthful

Of Strengths and endings

Blendt

into an unsense

For you

I am spent

And your eyes

uninnocent

make up songs

Forever rent

Unto heavens

You are the face plantist

You are the favorite of all time

You are the famous planets

Lie there

Enshine

Once upon a time

A princess

Raven

Pale

spent her days racing blindly

Staring dumbly

Chasing after You

In a floating toy canoe

Later then

She flew

across the trees

And over lakes

Reflecting

strange and restless shapes

You are the face plantist

You are the favorite of all time

You are the famous planets

Lie there

Enshine

I love you

I do

Do you me, mine?

impressing Neptune awake

all the while he’d been hiding

You

never wanting

one to share

his sunken pearl

Until

this girl

You are the face plantist

You are the favorite of all time

You are the famous planets

Lie there

Enshine

You are the face plantist

You are the favorite of all time

You are the famous planets

Lie there

Enshine

TARRYING

Let the milk flow

And help me let go

Keeper of decay

Please

answer my call

forgive my fall

Let the milk flow

And help me let go

Guardian of light

Please

We are melting candy

Making eyes at eternity

answer my call

forgive my fall

Let the milk flow

And help me let go

spangled sky above

Please

My prayer is to linger

But your trigger-finger

We are melting candy

Making eyes at eternity

answer my call

forgive my fall

Let the milk flow

And help me let go

Author of the fates

Please