©1998 Beau Sharbrough
At Brookhaven, I took a composition class from Elaine Gardner-Morales. The class assignment was to write three one-minute piano pieces.
In the second one, I wanted to do something unusual with tonal centers. This piece is based on a theme that I used back in 1976, but not so you'd know it.
There are words for this piece.
Holy, Holey, Wholly
I have these two sides. We live in
here. One’s a sinner, one’s a saint. I want to be the one who loves you. The
one who’d never want to be above you. The one who thinks you’re holy.
I’ve said it one time, I’ve said it twice. I never plan to fall in love. It
tears my tears out on the wrong day … It leaves me feeling spent and empty. It
leaves me feeling holey.
I live these two lives, at different times. Sometimes I try so hard to believe.
I want to be the one who trusts you. The one who jumps off the house above you.
The one who thinks you’re holy.
I can’t trust women. I can’t love men. Where does a problem like this end? I
watch you want the things that I do. I watch you want them deep inside you. I
watch you take them, wholly.
I live these two lives, at different times. Sometimes I try not to believe that
you’re the one who’d try to hurt me, that you’re the one who’d ever
desert me, that you’re the one who’s holy.
It was performed instrumentally in recital by Cakewalk 6.0 during December 1997.