Empty Room
from Inner Landscapes by Christel Veraart
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lyrics
for months this room stood empty
wept silence, squealed hollowness
every grain backed sail
while shivering its timbers
spread out virginal boards
yearning to be tread upon
exposed to the world
where drafts took all shelters
voids uninhabited
lying idle and forsaken
the land of shadows
has moored inside
an absence, so present
almost tangible to the world
entwined with darkness
I have become lost to the world
“local priest called today
and leaves this card with his blessing”
shooed away are the specters
and cast out my fears
today I entered
being enticed by stillness
Spread out virginal boards, like wings
Yearned to be freed
nobody lived there
though anybody could
my fantasy moulded a habitat
where paradise-birds could sing
sublime void of emptiness
where mirrors lack reflections
where nothing seems impossible
a room that dreams dreams
wept silence, squealed hollowness
every grain backed sail
while shivering its timbers
spread out virginal boards
yearning to be tread upon
exposed to the world
where drafts took all shelters
voids uninhabited
lying idle and forsaken
the land of shadows
has moored inside
an absence, so present
almost tangible to the world
entwined with darkness
I have become lost to the world
“local priest called today
and leaves this card with his blessing”
shooed away are the specters
and cast out my fears
today I entered
being enticed by stillness
Spread out virginal boards, like wings
Yearned to be freed
nobody lived there
though anybody could
my fantasy moulded a habitat
where paradise-birds could sing
sublime void of emptiness
where mirrors lack reflections
where nothing seems impossible
a room that dreams dreams
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from Inner Landscapes,
released October 21, 2011
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Christel Veraart
Christel Veraart is a composer, musician and singer. She has recorded a number of albums, and has received multiple awards. Her music has featured in film, dance and stage productions, and was recently broadcast on acclaimed US radio programs “Hearts of Space" and “Night Tides”. Christel’s music is described as ambient, meditative, avant-garde classical. ... more
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