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TROIS GYMNOPEDIES by Erik Satie, new words by Joel Sattler

I.

fall outside and my vision has changed
again 
so I watch the sky looking for rain
in my eyes
dancing alone down these old cobblestones
it's strange to be feeling no sense of surprise
the bells sound
warning your love is like 
going down a
one way
street

hold your hand and I sometimes forget
my own
reflecting all the people I've met
in my eyes
I am composed of the people I've known 
I'm drifting afloat on the world in disguise
the bells sound
breaking up reverie  
half-asleep
dance
in bare
feet

My version is based on a recording by Aldo Ciccolini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtB0xB182_Q

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II.

you

ballet down under the bridge

you

pirouette beside the river

I

watching the snow

fall

down

not a sound

and your feet barely touch

ground

you

lost in your own

world

while the wind

swirls

such a strange

girl

I

only a choreograph

you

living for love and for laughter

I

watching you live

for

youth

and truth

while I

stand mute

My version is based on a recording by Aldo Ciccolini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1loSL7CjE_w

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III.

dance

you were born

only to dance in the light

not

the night

listen and

you can hear

the music no one 

can

dance

dream of the promises

that we all should have made

dance

as if your heart was to be enslaved dance

dance

as if you could still

escape

dance

dance

as brave and unafraid

dance

dance

dance

this may be your last chance

life is just masquerade 

My version is based on a recording by Aldo Ciccolini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDYPaeOhXG8

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