May 2012
30 posts
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
—Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
“A child can always teach an adult three things:
To be happy for no reason,
To always be busy with something,
And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” —Paulo Coelho (via welcome-back-belly)
To be happy for no reason,
To always be busy with something,
And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” —Paulo Coelho (via welcome-back-belly)
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”
—C.S. Lewis (via lominos)
and then i take a moment to remind myself to relax about posting things on tumblr.
Testament (Original Demo)
Noelle Pico
#upstairsintheworkshop, new music.
Going back to old songs tucked away and trying a new take on things.
I wrote this piece in collaboration with my brother about six years ago. Rendered originally for guitar, this was one of those songs written in the deep of night, by two kids who filled two mugs with hot chocolate in spite of the humidity that can cling to this city even when summer has come and gone.
My brother is studying Law now. It’s his passion where music is mine. So when I’d begun to play around with transitioning “Testament” from strings to piano keys about a little over a month ago, I’d asked his permission if I could take this and make it what was ours into something both familiar and yet somehow still new.
I had hoped to post this sooner. A number of my friends have been struggling with loss, others with the painful task of recovering themselves. It’s difficult, navigating the mazes of grief. The things we love, after all, are sometimes also the things that render us raw.
I suppose it’s like holding light between your fingers — it illuminates, true. But it can also burn.
Testament
Music by Noelle and Nathan Pico
Lyrics by Noelle Pico
It comes down to this
When the unexpected
Is your only friend
It comes down to this
When the makeshift fences
Have all but weathered away
In the dark of the light
The shadows wait for
The dying of the sun tonight
It’s not the impressions
We leave behind
Nor the footprints that litter
The sands of time
We are here then we are gone
That’s the way thing are
The way things are, my friend
What’s left behind
We all forget eventually
But not easily
Hesitation on your behalf
Like uncertain skies come half-past June
The piercing feeling of genuine smiles
That you know won’t see tomorrow
I’m running fast but
I don’t think that
I’m getting anywhere just yet
And as we kneel to carve in stone
By two years’ time the chipped will soften
Even a little, everything does
In the dark of the light
The shadows wait for
The dying of the sun tonight
It’s not the impressions
We leave behind
Nor the footprints that litter
The sands of time
We are here then we are gone
That’s the way thing are
The way things are, my friend
What’s left behind
We all forget eventually
But not easily
It comes down to this
It comes down to this
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
—Maya Angelou (via flowerroflife)
