Modern Age - Gray, Michael

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"Originally for only 5 voices. Part of a larger collection called "Modern Living""

◈ Genre → Madrigale ♬ Besetzung → SSATB ¶ Sprache → Englisch

Stimmen 5

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 16

CPDL Nr. 28486

Bearbeiter Michael Gray

Veröffentlicht 2013-03-10

Lizenz Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

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Ev’ry moment my earphones date me with news from space But I can’t even give you a description of my neighbor’s face. Is it a man or a woman, well whom am I to pry? I can’t be held responsible to look them in the eye. I take advantage of cocooning in a modern age. Maybe we’re not meant to see I have the freedom to be entertain’d inside a cage Maybe we’re not meant to be Should I be fearful that my soul will start to disengage What it’s all crack’d up to be A part of humanity So I’ll continue Blindly crawling through This modern.. In a vehicular bubble Commuting solitarity The seats design’d for passengers Are permanently people free And I alone as a symptom Of humming to myself? I’d have to pay attention if I chauffeur’d someone else. I can surround myself with plethora’s of me Let me embrace my small kingdom I do no harm if I’m my own community My shallow world is turning Disturbing my reflection I can email my money And send a goat to Bangalore But I won’t give a breadcrumb to a person begging at my door. I’d have to lift a finger to see what I could spare The energy exerted might be more than I could bear I feel the pressure of cocooning in a modern age If I lift my head to see If I squint hard I can delineate the bars of this cage Ev’rything is not all for me. Perhaps I’ll locate the desire to engage Maybe I’ll begin To come in To this modern..