The Bird Painter
Awakening Echoes: A Canvas of New Beginnings in Maggie Pope's 'The Bird Painter'
Lyrics
Tomorrow we're shaking
Anticipation or excitement for the upcoming day.
Wake up see the sun come making
Observing the sunrise and the beginning of a new day.
A new year and colors a new year
Emphasizing the start of a new year with vibrant colors.
I think we'll walk together
Expressing a desire to walk together with someone.
For papers bound with leather from our skin
Symbolism of shared experiences, possibly bound by commitment.
Wake up from every page we're hanging
Waking up from life's experiences, like turning pages of a book.
Or are we a sleeper
Pondering if one is asleep or fully engaged in life.
Or are we moving like the bird painter
Comparing movement to the way a bird painter works.
I once heard a man say
Recalling a statement from someone about the universe and ballet.
I wonder if in the universe ballet
Wondering if the universe is a dance and music is its expression.
The music that's playing is echoes of
Connecting music to the echoes of God's voice.
God's voice traveling
Imagining divine communication through music.
And when they said nothing
Reflecting on moments of silence or nothingness.
Saw nothing beauty fell into the room
Noticing the entrance of beauty into a space devoid of distractions.
The painter the captain he woke up
Shifting focus to a painter or captain awakening.
Put on his clothes and moved
Getting dressed and preparing to move forward.
Tomorrow we're shaking
Repeating the theme of anticipation or shaking for the next day.
Wake up see the sun come making
Reiterating the experience of witnessing a new day.
A new year and colors a new year
Emphasizing the new year and its colors once again.
I think we'll walk together
Reaffirming the desire to walk together with someone.
A new year engraved on papers
Noting the inscription of a new year on papers, possibly symbolic.
I think we'll walk together
Expressing the intention to walk together once more.
A new year wake up wake up
Repeating the call to wake up to the new year.
I think we'll walk together
Reiterating the intention to walk together in the new year.
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