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Willow, Final Version

Weeping Willow (1918), Claude Monet

These are the completed lyrics to Willow, a soon to be released work for male voice choir (TTBB) and low brass quartet (tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba)

I will bend to your will

and you will bend to mine

when the time comes


We will cherish the tapestry

that was woven on bended knees

when the water comes


There will be money to buy

all the food in the world

when the famine comes


We'll have seeds a-plenty

to plant all we need

when the drought comes


Clamorings for freedom

will prevent the cure

when the plague comes


Feeling your strength

mindlessly

bullying 

chuckling 

you fell by

the bit of the axe 

thrust into me 

with past's clarion call


Roots dug deep

wounded on bended needs

when the time came


Those in orbit around us

will sing hosannas eternal

when the darkness comes