(2019; voice and piano version, 2021)
(lyrics by Anna Weesner)
Instrumentation: voice, guitar. Or: voice, piano
Duration: 3:00
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Not every song is a love song
And not every day is a day for all days
Not every day is a song
Not every love is a song for all days
A song for all days for a love that arrives and stays
Not every love is a song
A song can be less than a day nothing more
It falls away
A love can arrive and not stay
A day is a song on the day of all days
When a love sings a song
And stays for the dullest of days
I yearn for the dullest of days
For now and then a day is a song
Not every day is a love song
Not every love that arrives and sings
Stays for the dullest of days
For the dullest of days is the love song
I yearn for the dullest of days
A meditation on the perplexing fact that the most exciting love is perhaps both ordinary and daily.
Circular Argument was commissioned by the Bowers Fader Duo and premiered by them on October 18, 2019 at National Opera Center in New York, NY.