Ran out of time. I think this would've been cooler if I hadn't been contending with the Christmas holidays and a nasty case of the flu that hit me around Wednesday.
Rather than a line by line breakdown, here's the source material for my thefts:
"Time," David Bowie
"Eye in the Sky," Allan Parson's Project
"What a Fool Believes," Michael McDonald
Then the big stuff...
"The Shield of Achilles," W.H. Auden
"The Waste Land," T.S. Eliot <-There's an internal theft here as the German chorus is from "Tristan und Isolde" but also appears in "The Waste Land."
Musically it's a bastardization of "My Funny Valentine," Chopin's "Prelude in E minor," and Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." There's a lot of additional jazz tropes as well due to that being the idiom in which I'm living.
Though I had intended upon this lyric basically being an avant garde Pollock-esque smattering of colors, it may have gone a bit far, lol.
lyrics
Time the wing waiter
Eyes us in the sky
And red, the quaalude wine
Trickles down your spine
Voices without a face
In tones as level dry
They march away the blind belief
Logic brought them somewhere grief
She looked over his shoulder
For ritual pieties
Oh, what a fool believes
It’s not a place, it’s not a time
It’s the honor of the thieves
Frisch weht der Wind
Der Heimat zu
Mein Irisch Kind
Wo weilest du
The mass and majesty
Carries the same old weight
The worst could wish, they lost their pride
Passed as men, their bodies died
Ragged urchins,
aimless and alone
And lilacs out of winter lands
A ray of light in frigid hands
She looked over his shoulder
For ritual pieties
Oh, what a fool believes
It’s not a place, it’s not a time
It’s the honor of the thieves
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