Fox Fur

Super rough demo. This is a song I started and finished writing today.  I’m still working on arrangement ideas, and phrasing ideas, but I figure you’ll get the idea. Listen with a good pair of headphones.

Also, it’s the first time I’ve ever tracked a clarinet (bridge and solo). I’ve never played a clarinet until about a month ago, when I figured that since it’s sort of similar to the saxophone, I can probably figure it out. Thanks to Mark DeJesus for letting me borrow it, and to Ron Gejon for letting me interrupt his birthday party to pick it up from Mark.

 - foxfur

lyrics:

At 13, i discovered the sheets that made me feel so dirty yet felt so complete

spent my time listening to the lines that were written by Coltrane in sounds bites.

Fast forward the years, when the melody’s here, being sung by a seer till the curtain collapsed;

you were there with the sun your hair, and I must have been staring too long

“I Know You”

I opened, with eyes opened and slimmed, though the Garden had dimmed, your smile lightened the night

to memories of galaxies faraway, second movements in space and the like…

The motion of you, as I spent time with you, split my body in two with your centrifuge heart

but I wasn’t scared cuz I know that you dared to put me back together again

“I Know You”

Br:

Oh..when you left, all the spaces amplified all of the darkness

there is a hole from your presence I cannot deny away;

(I) hope in the next life , forgiveness rains in the fields where our shadows are

kept in Promethean chains

I wade to the ground with you 

Now I’m here, and the absence of fear

makes the symphony weave through the sound and the sight

of us frozen in time in a Grander Design, when I set my lips to your eyes;

Later on, when these memories fade and what’s left are the ashes

I’ll cup them with hands frayed and go to the edge of the canyon’s lament

and make airborne again our days- lyrics by John-Flor Sisante

 - copyright John-Flor Sisante November, 2011