Wild Swan
from Wild Swan by Joanna Wallfisch
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Music by Joanna Wallfisch & Jay Vilnai,
Lyrics by Joanna Wallfisch
Lyrics by Joanna Wallfisch
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Sleepless nights spent walking
Through the leafless parks of Brooklyn
A Wild Swan glides and watches
The dance of two hearts dreaming.
Our eyes were wildley tracing
All of the shadows of the trees
The winter spell of Christmas
Has brought us to our knees
The glow of his reflection
His black eyes burning through me.
The silence of his moving
The way he disappears
Into the cold dark winter
He left me with no tears.
This Wild Swan never knew me,
Though we loved for many years.
We went East to find the sunrise
Since this night and day were one.
But too cold we gave up and went home
We slept through the rising sun.
Now in the light of day
The very same trees sway
But no shadows trace our footsteps
All our dreams have flown away.
For it seems that this Wild Swan
Was a dream before our eyes,
A vision of desire felt beneath the Brooklyn skies.
The glow of his reflection
His black eyes burning through me.
The silence of his moving
The way he disappears
Into the cold dark winter
He left me with no tears.
This Wild Swan never knew me,
Though we loved for many years.
©J.Wallfisch 2012
Through the leafless parks of Brooklyn
A Wild Swan glides and watches
The dance of two hearts dreaming.
Our eyes were wildley tracing
All of the shadows of the trees
The winter spell of Christmas
Has brought us to our knees
The glow of his reflection
His black eyes burning through me.
The silence of his moving
The way he disappears
Into the cold dark winter
He left me with no tears.
This Wild Swan never knew me,
Though we loved for many years.
We went East to find the sunrise
Since this night and day were one.
But too cold we gave up and went home
We slept through the rising sun.
Now in the light of day
The very same trees sway
But no shadows trace our footsteps
All our dreams have flown away.
For it seems that this Wild Swan
Was a dream before our eyes,
A vision of desire felt beneath the Brooklyn skies.
The glow of his reflection
His black eyes burning through me.
The silence of his moving
The way he disappears
Into the cold dark winter
He left me with no tears.
This Wild Swan never knew me,
Though we loved for many years.
©J.Wallfisch 2012
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from Wild Swan,
released March 9, 2012
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Joanna Wallfisch Los Angeles, California
“Ushering you into a magical sound world… at once boldly individual and sublimely subtle”
★★★★ Jazzwise
Magazine
“When Joanna is on stage one can do nothing but pay attention” ★★★★Downbeat
“Wallfisch combines the intimate purview of a singer-songwriter with the technical liberties of a jazz improviser” The Boston Globe
“Wallfisch creates crystalline, inquisitive music” Wall Street Journal
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