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Music & Lyrics by Jeremy Siskind
Based on Poetry by Derek Walcott

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When the body cannot bear it,
When the pity’s too profound,
When mem’ries break like waves against your conscience,
Kneel your knees upon the ground.

Weep for emptiness and fullness,
Cry for pebbles and for clouds,
For curling smoke above forgotten houses,
Kneel your knees upon the ground.

A schoolgirl in blue and white,
Whirling in evening’s light,
A kiss by the boathouse door
Leaving you needing more,
The horns of the harbor heard
Chanting love, word by word,
To live it is raw and rare, like a prayer, everywhere…

Feel the soil soft beneath you,
See the hills in ochre drowned,
And hear the bugle colored twilight blowing,
Kneel your knees upon the ground.

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from "at_Home​/​at_Play" EP, released January 10, 2018

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Housewarming Project New York, New York

Vocalist Nancy Harms ushers a listener into the world of a piece with her innate story-telling abilities; Lucas Pino colors the music with whispering tenor work, mournful clarinet, and murmuring bass clarinet; and Jeremy Siskind sonically rounds out the music with sparkling, Debussian harmony. ... more

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