[oddly like TV as 3 a.m. just before the static sets in] Eyes in Tears

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Eyes in Tears

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http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=744&start=0

download
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/improvfriday/IF20101223-part-C-eyes-in-tears.mp3

A setting of T. S. Eliot's poem Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears

Production notes - Pianoteq, Korg MS2000 Rhodes, AZR3 Organ, Session Drummer 3, Korg MS2000 vocoder fucntion for poem recitation.

Eyes that last I saw in tears
Through division
Here in death's dream kingdom
The golden vision reappears
I see the eyes but not the tears
This is my affliction

This is my affliction
Eyes I shall not see again
Eyes of decision
Eyes I shall not see unless
At the door of death's other kingdom
Where, as in this,
The eyes outlast a little while
A little while outlast the tears
And hold us in derision.

Thomas Stearns Eliot