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Like a bird…
to be free.

Like a baby stillborn Cradled in
the birth of the storm
I have torn away from those who’d…
torn away from those who'd comfort me,

I’ve tried, I’ve tried, I’ve really tried,

in a book, in an old-fashioned look don’t cry
until you’ve tried to ask for

Like a wanderer before a fire
or the inverse of desire
in the heart of a mute town crier who
wishes not to inspire a thought on the tongue
of a liar it was the shape of our silence
[tacet] I have saved all my ribbons for

I’ve tried, oh, I’ve tried,
I’ve really, really tried, really
tried in my own way to be freeeeeeee

If I, if, if I, if I have been
untrue
If I, if, if I, if I have been
unkind

Like a drunk on a wire
like a bird in a midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free.

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from CLASSICS from the Rascali Klepitoire, released April 1, 2020
as sung by Patricia O'Callaghan.
composed by James Rolfe & John Oswald, after Len Cohen.
revised libretto by John Oswald

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John Oswald is best known as the the creator of the Plunderphonics genre, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began unfolding in the late ’60’s. This got him in trouble with, and also garnered invites from major record labels and musical icons. In the early ’90’s he began, with three commissions from the Kronos Quartet, to compose in what he calls the Rascali Klepitoire. ... more

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