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lyrics

(Townspeople are drawn into the Walking Man’s journey; all characters are voiced by the Centaur)

CENTAUR:

Look there: It’s the midwife and her husband, the cobbler.
They walk behind the Walking Man.

MIDWIFE:

Y-y-y-esterday she
W-w-w-ould have been five

COBBLER:

Poisoning your soul again?

MIDWIFE:

W-w-w-hat is in your
m-m-m-outh? Open!

COBBLER:

Don’t touch!
Leave it!

MIDWIFE:

Th-th-th-there’s blood…
Sp-p-p-it the nails!

CENTAUR:

And look, look, there!
It’s the mute net-mender.

NET MENDER:

Agh...agh…

CENTAUR:

And the elderly math teacher
muttering his equation, like Spinoza:

ELDERLY MATH TEACHER:

The object—the life of the son—
must never be located in the universe
at a distance
from which the father—the observing subject—
may encompass all of him
with one gaze
from beginning to end.

CENTAURr:

…and they groan… and trip...and stand…
walking half asleep…
behind the walking man…

A wail rolls over the desert.
They walk towards
a cliff cut
into round smooth mountain:
A barren brain-hill.
It pulsates, perhaps
once in a thousand years.

It is the brain of the universe
It is not what emits the wail
It is desolation.
Only desolation.

Mute and deaf and
flat
It has no wails
No thoughts
It has no answers
And no love.

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from Osvaldo Golijov - "Falling Out of Time" (ICR017), released October 9, 2020

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The artists of the Grammy award-winning Silkroad Ensemble represent dozens of nationalities and artistic traditions, from Spain and Japan to Syria and the United States, and draw on a rich tapestry of traditions from around the world to create a new musical language that weaves together the foreign and the familiar.

The group's album Sing Me Home won the 2016 Grammy for Best World Music Album.
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