My love of the music of YES shows here: multiple meters, cross-rhythms, poetry and Blake-like spiritual yearning in the lyrics. Also evident: the influence of a Columbus Ohio singer-songwriter William D. Burton, whose intricate and skillful Sondheim-level rhymes I try to emulate (straight off / played off).
Here is the sculpture of the city of my heart
take it, man; make it what you can
here is a painting of the place we are to start
naked man making what he can
this is how it all began
a man trusted his ignorance, mustered his courage and flew
he ran straight off the precipice, played off and dwindled into light
he saw light as no other had seen it before
right - it was right, he could open the night like a door
here in the sun, I am flying home
here is the wind in the branches, here is the sun on the wall
here is the stillness inside me, here is the distance I fall
I am the wind in the branches, I am the sun on the wall
I am the stillness inside me, I am the distance I fall
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