The City and the Sea

Song Cycle by Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

1. i walked the boulevard  [sung text not yet checked]

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i walked the boulevard
i saw a dirty child
skating on noisy wheels of joy

pathetic dress fluttering

 

behind her a mothermonster
with red grumbling face

cluttered in pursuit

pleasantly elephantine

 

while nearby the father

a thick cheerful man

with majestic bulbous lips
and forlorn piggish hands

 

joked to a girlish whore

with buy rhythmic mouth
and silly purple eyelids

of how she was with child

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2. the moon is hiding in her hair  [sung text not yet checked]

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the moon is hiding in
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3. maggie and milly and molly and may  [sung text not yet checked]

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maggy and milly and molly and may
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4. as is the sea marvelous  [sung text not yet checked]

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as is the sea marvelous
from god’s
hands which sent her forth
to sleep upon the world

and the earth withers
the moon crumbles
one by one
stars flutter into dust

but the sea
does not change
and she goes forth out of hands and
she returns into hands

and is with sleep....

love,
     the breaking

of your
        soul
        upon
my lips

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5. little man in a hurry  [sung text not yet checked]

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little man (in a hurry
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Total word count: 274