Lyrics Minami-No-Tori
Music:
Daniel Cross
Libretto:
Andriana Minou
Coral A
Minami-no-tori
Mermaid Song B
Noom ret-sis
Lliw wolf dna bbe
Peed red-nu
Senob ym sten-gam
Worg lliw deew-eas
Eht deppid si doolb
Erut-uf devrac senots
Ni seye ym lliw
Moon sister, ebb and flow
Will deep under my bones
Magnet will grow seaweed
Blood is dipped
The future carved in stones
My eyes will
Coral B
Minami-no-tori
A thousand times upon a time
One half is thirsty
The other half is drowning
Mermaid Song C
Will my eyes in
Stone carved future
Blood is dipped, the
Seaweed will grow
Magnets my bones
Under deep
Ebb and flow will
Sister Moon
The moon is my sister
Her ebb and flow
Will carry my story far and wide.
My tears will blister
Seaweed will grow
And bury my fishtail deep under the tide.
My eyes will be water
Magnets my bones
History’s drought is memory’s flood
The trace of my slaughter
Carved on the stones
The quills of the future are dipped in my blood
The trace of my slaughter
Carved on the stones
The quills of the future are dipped in my blood
Sea/Birds B
The pearl of flow
and the pearl of ebb
The pearl of memory
And the pearl of oblivion
Oblivion
And the pearl eternal
In the stillness of the sea
Coral F
The palm of my hand
What is remembered
And what is forgotten
In the palm of my hand
Nothing left to disappear
Only the feathered flutter
Of forgotten histories
In the howl of the wind will remain
In the howl of the wind will remain
What is remembered and what is forgotten
Can you erase what is written on water…
Music:
Daniel Cross
Libretto:
Andriana Minou
Coral A
Minami-no-tori
Mermaid Song B
Noom ret-sis
Lliw wolf dna bbe
Peed red-nu
Senob ym sten-gam
Worg lliw deew-eas
Eht deppid si doolb
Erut-uf devrac senots
Ni seye ym lliw
Moon sister, ebb and flow
Will deep under my bones
Magnet will grow seaweed
Blood is dipped
The future carved in stones
My eyes will
Coral B
Minami-no-tori
A thousand times upon a time
One half is thirsty
The other half is drowning
Mermaid Song C
Will my eyes in
Stone carved future
Blood is dipped, the
Seaweed will grow
Magnets my bones
Under deep
Ebb and flow will
Sister Moon
The moon is my sister
Her ebb and flow
Will carry my story far and wide.
My tears will blister
Seaweed will grow
And bury my fishtail deep under the tide.
My eyes will be water
Magnets my bones
History’s drought is memory’s flood
The trace of my slaughter
Carved on the stones
The quills of the future are dipped in my blood
The trace of my slaughter
Carved on the stones
The quills of the future are dipped in my blood
Sea/Birds B
The pearl of flow
and the pearl of ebb
The pearl of memory
And the pearl of oblivion
Oblivion
And the pearl eternal
In the stillness of the sea
Coral F
The palm of my hand
What is remembered
And what is forgotten
In the palm of my hand
Nothing left to disappear
Only the feathered flutter
Of forgotten histories
In the howl of the wind will remain
In the howl of the wind will remain
What is remembered and what is forgotten
Can you erase what is written on water…