Eric Whitacre Instagram – Child of wonder
Child of sky
Time to end your voyage
Time to die.
Silent slumber calls you
Dark and deep
Child of soft surrender
Child of sleep.
Child of sorrow
Child of rain
There is no tomorrow
No more pain.
Turn your silvered sail
Toward the light
Child of mourning
Child of night.
Child of iridescence
Child of dream
Stars and moons will guide you
Down the stream.
Stretched on ocean waves
Of endless foam
Welcome home my child
Welcome home.
When I wrote these lyrics I took a lot of inspiration from the incomparable Stephen Sondheim, who is the absolute master of distilling the human experience into a few simple words.
Child of Wonder, performed in March, 2020 by the Bob Cole Chamber Choir at Long Beach State. (We were performing in Salt Lake City). We couldn’t know it at the time, but this was the last performance we gave before the lockdown. @choirsatbccm | Posted on 11/Aug/2024 20:34:36
