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The Turn I Was Gifted

from Distances by Court

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The turn I was gifted

According to the flights of my soul
Sensible to the calls of companions
Wider spaces I visited
And my port quite finally I found
At a spring of purer sounds
Many moons looked after the sleeps
Of creatures at night
Whiles my eyes were roaming
And were waiting for you to come
To my enchanted shelter

But none has followed the narrow
And none has accepted the gift of my sounds
Now here I lay
Amid bushes of lilacs in bloom
..now here I lay in bloom.

Will it please to my visions
I was cut as a spring of these flowers
And brought to cover over my grave
Monument of a mercy misused
Among you
Distance an empire that conquers and wastes
A cage of beauty and grace
Rules now the abyss….

...in between…
I’ve asked:
“Does my singing live
Just when someone is enjoying it?
Or maybe it behaves like the wind
That blows over seas
Although there are no leaves to stir?”
I say: “It lives because someone has lived and sang it
…it lives because someone has lived”

I offer my donations of air caged in tones
To the altar of Nature built upon the memories of a dusk in the past
There I thank for existence
I’d like not to expect any sign from your side of the abyss
I’d love to live on my creed and my poetry
But I’m not strong enough…
And sometimes among the red heather
I feel lost then I wait a call from you
From far to break down this solitude and silence
Am I wrong when I pay no respect to my soul
And those voices, and those sounds
So pure and too high? Or am I just alone?”

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from Distances, released October 6, 1997

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Court Varese, Italy

The Prog-Rock-Alternative band COURT started in 1990, four album and two singles (included in prog compilations) has been released. The music filters progressive, folk and ancient music, generating a new & original sound.
After intensive Tour in Europe and USA, the band was noticed by US promoters and in 2007 Court participated at the “Los Angeles Music Awards" winning as “Best Alternative Artist” ... more

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