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Guess who’s coming ‘round again.
Hold your head up like you’re dumb
and you meant to care, always wanted to
because of me and my liquid eyes fallen
in the sand.
Talk to me like I am rain
going from the sky to earth.
You’re not innocent, you are miserable,
behind the times, and between the lines turning
into me.
Eyes, mind, heart: open.
Life, come to me once more.
Use your hands to make me well.
Draw a river from your stone
and let it soothe me, like a melody
played from your bones, and my ears fall off due to
misery.
You take ashes in your soup,
and your blood could melt a car.
But I would drink it, I would have a glass
if it would mean that my world would end in just
some short time.
Eyes, mind, heart: open.
Life, come to me once more.
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Smokey breath from your lips to the air,
dark and dust with some string lights on
for you and me, just you and me.
Faded eyes underneath your hair,
there’s loud, loud noise and there’s wine and joy
for you and me, just you and me.
Oh lovely eyes, your lovely eyes.
We sit down outside the house in cold,
on the street there is snow on the ground
for you and me, just you and me.
Now I speak in some broken tongue,
I’ll be gone in a breath or two
for you and me, just you and me.
Oh lovely eyes, your lovely eyes.
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Have you seen my ghost? ‘Cause I’m running ‘round
with my eyes on the moonlight and in the dark,
and my heart blooming out like an open book
to be read by the wind on the shore,
like a secret on your tongue
that you’d only bring to rest.
Now I’m good as dead, lying like a stone
thrown by your heavy heart to mine, shattered like cold ice
in my hand, on your face like a tender kiss
from a bus or a train or a gun,
like the stars found in your teeth
that could only chew on me.
On some normal street, there are battle cries
from people who look just like me, only killing you,
and they bring knives and flames to your half-closed eyes
to be closed by a man with a gun.
Now you’re nowhere, anytime.
You are nowhere, anytime.
They said “love will win, love will always win,
hate will never win.” And here we are, my love in the ground
and now I’m running ‘round, my eyes on the moon
in the dark in the wind on the shore.
Now I’m nowhere, anytime.
I am nowhere, anytime.
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Among the people in the streets
with all the trouble that you keep,
there is life.
There is life where you walk.
In all the cold and dark nights
when you think and then you cry,
there is warmth.
There is warmth where you are.
To all the bashed and beaten boys
with mothers weeping at their side,
there is time.
There is time to make it right.
Take your time.
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Interventions 1 – 5 is a collection of chamber music and contemporary alternative songs by Nicholas Patrick Quigley. The intent is to provide an experience comparable to moving around in a gallery, from ‘intervention’ to ‘intervention.’ Some pieces are single-movement in a sense, and others break down into smaller sections called ‘episodes.’ Intervention No. 1 is composed for solo piano, Intervention No. 2 is for guitar and voice in three episodes, Intervention No. 3 is for solo celesta, Intervention No. 4 is for bassoon, marimba, and viola in three episodes, and finally, Intervention No. 5 is composed for solo viola in five episodes. Outside of these experiences is an Overture for strings, and the Epilogue, which reprises the singer-guitarist and strings to conclude the experience.
"Epilogue" video, directed by Gregory Mahan:
youtu.be/pDSDzTT6OsA
Score:
www.researchgate.net/publication/362242579_Interventions_1_-_5_Musical_score
released June 13, 2017
Nick Campbell: Audio Engineer
Brian Cannady: Marimba, Intervention No. 4
Alenka Donovan: Violin, Overture and Epilogue
Kevin Grainger: Bassoon, Intervention No. 4
Jon Kohen: Guitar and Voice, Intervention No. 2 and Epilogue
Linnea Marchie: Viola, Overture and Epilogue
David Mason: Viola, Intervention No. 4 and Intervention No. 5
Stuart McDonald: Violin, Overture and Epilogue
Sean Patterson: Lead Audio Engineer and Finalizing Engineer
Nicholas Patrick Quigley: Composer
Carolyn Regula: Violoncello, Overture and Epilogue
Alexander Thomas: Piano, Intervention No. 1; Celesta, Intervention No. 3
Related media:
www.bu.edu/cfa/from-classroom-to-community/
soundofboston.com/album-review-interventions-1-5-nicholas-p-quigley/
www.bu.edu/articles/2017/nicholas-quigley-album/
www.bu.edu/cfa/school-of-music-student-releases-debut-album/
