Greta's Opus

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  • Dedicated to Alapaevsk Martyrs
                                    

Note: This song is for my story "Homing Bird" (2012) The video contains the song with my terrible editing. So ease up the sound if you dare to listen. Please take time to look up the tragic tale of the alapaevsk martyrs. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Feodor Remez, Princes Ioann, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich and Vladmir Paley. Barbara the nun, Grand Duke Sergie  Mikhailovich. It's not so sad to think that you are gone, it's remembering how you died. 

I have a marching band

I have a schoolyard choir

I get my violin down

It moans out my heart’s desire

Down in the opera house

I’ve got an orchestra

Woodwinds, and brass play loud

Sing out cello and viola

Something is missing and I can’t find it

Someone is gone and they won’t be found

Somewhere is out there ‘cross the great wide open

Sweet symphony channel me your sound

Call in angels

Call in all an-angels

Seraph angels

Cherub an-angels

Lo, a drum and lyre

Who here knows how to play

Weep with the harp and obo

Comely fiddle wail my heart away

Piano may you be steadfast

Play until your name is fit to carve in stone

Organ why such deceitful playing

Hide in shame behind the breastbone

Something is missing and I can’t find it

Someone is gone and they won’t be found

Somewhere is out there ‘cross the great wide open

Sweet symphony channel me your sound

Call in angels

(Jah, send your angels)

Call in all an-angels

Seraph angels

Cherub an-angels

I speak through the orchestra

My Psalm is a forte sonata

Oh tempo rise don’t fall

Crescendo and wash me over

The Eternal Blue is ever uncorrupt

See heaven when its opened up

And if your opus stops abrupt

Beseech the Almighty…Call for angels 

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