Mountains of my youth sky as old as day clouds scattered, as dark sheep without a shepherd You watch me, don’t you? Mountains firm as memory night as bright as day pine trees shattered, in your multitudes confused You watch me, don’t you? Don’t you?
If You Use Your Senses
Song Cycle by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993)
2. SIGHT
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993), "SIGHT", written 2023
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Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]3. SMELL
Language: English
Earth and rain water and earth The pine trees waft a scent of knowing Echoes of past life My brother and I roaming the woods and mountainsides Playing, fighting, laughing skipping stones climbing trees The smell of blood my mother nursing a scrape on my knee Mixed with the smell of her perfume metal and sweet The night air gusts lashes the cuts on my face the smell is gone only cold emptiness frost coming on
Text Authorship:
- by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993), "SMELL", written 2023
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Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]4. STABAT
Language: Latin
... 8. Vidit suum dulcem natum moriendo desolatum, dum emisit spiritum. ... 20. Quando corpus morietur, fac ut animæ donetur Paradisi gloria. Amen
Text Authorship:
- possibly by Jacopone da Todi (1230 - 1306)
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Stabat mater"
- ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "The sorrowful mother", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La mère pleine de douleurs", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Karl Eitner) , "Stabat mater dolorosa"
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5. TASTE
Language: English
Lift it lift it lift it to my lips again Just one more sip of your wine that filled my mouth like warm blood A snarl of twisted metal A crime scene on my tongue You gave me bitter wine to drink hate worn under a mask of sweetness And what did I do to you? What did I ever do to you? Put it to my lips put it to my lips again Just one more drag of your cigarette salty and stained with tears Take my wallet take my shoes But just one last drag One last drink Just don’t don’t leave me don’t leave me
Text Authorship:
- by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993), "TASTE", written 2023, copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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6. TOUCH
Language: English
Sharpen your senses… If you use your senses you can go anywhere: A memory, a dream a kiss that colored my flesh scarlet If you use your senses you can be anything: A normal boy in the world with nothing to fear who got out who made it out of his forest of thorns And when I touch you I am that boy and you are that boy Here in this room, in this back alley the two of us, half a person, can be one You and I Will you use your senses enfold me in sultry heat warm my ravaged bones But remember me only by the sun’s hopeful touch And if you use your senses You’ll find me in the mountains -- in the stars You’ll find me you’ll find me
Text Authorship:
- by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993), "TOUCH", written 2024, copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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7. SENSELESS
Language: English
My ears blind to nature my eyes numb to beauty my memory robbed of smell my mouth deaf limbs parched When my whole beautiful world has gone black am I still a part of it? When my brain has been put out like a flame where does my being cease and my spirit begin Finding its way through the dark Finding its way home The arms of God open like a mother’s to embrace me full and warm And I'm home home home
Text Authorship:
- by Garrett Medlock (b. 1993), "SENSELESS", written 2023, copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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