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To Number Our Days

from Flora & Fauna by Michael Dornan Music

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lyrics

Let’s break the silence.
Let’s drop the stylus on another new morning
Brushes on drums,
and hammers upon the strings –

Your favourite track, now.
Let’s look back now –
There’s a kind of a narrative.
Now we see blossom,
Back then there was just the bud.
Music’s a time-jump, and making it
Feels so good

Hey! Let’s learn to number our days
And treat each one just like a gift we’re given
So, when we reach an old age,
We’ll be like palm trees with roots in heaven.

I can be acacia, you can be a cedar.
We can drink from the river.
Like Vincent’s cypresses,
We can live and thrive.
So, whether we’re flora
Or whether we’re fauna, or characters on paper:
Commit to the role, and the world’s
Gonna know we’re alive.

Hey! Let’s learn to number our days
And treat each one just like a gift we’re given
So, when we reach an old age,
We’ll be like palm trees with roots in heaven.
Hey! Let’s learn to number our days –
Riding each one
Just like it’s chauffeur-driven –
And, when the novelty fades,
Try something different.

Remember when songs were sung?
Actual air from actual lungs
Voice of pride, voice of woe –
Enough to bring down Jericho

I want to hear you – I want to hear you.

To see the bright of your iris,
unmediated by devices
Chromatography in mid-air.
An actual moment that we share.

It’s good to see you –
I’m thinking of you with gratitude.
What I once felt on my branches,
I’m pulling up through my roots

This gorgeous, temporal phase:
So dear to me. Don’t wanna be an angel!
In uneclipseable Day,
How much like diamonds
Are actual people.

credits

from Flora & Fauna, released August 30, 2021
Alvin Davis: Trumpets, trombones, tenor sax
Iajhi Hampden: Drums

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Singer-songwriter based in Devon, UK

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