Before You Sing - Jack Hardy

Before you sing, before you strum you silken strings

uncloud your mind, take yourself out of time

remember me as a child unviolated and wild

layed out upon your bed: the wine but not the bread

your thirst among my fears, your verse for only my ears

but you had magie, you had might

you had everything in sight

and everything I gave to you

and still you do not know me

before you sing, before you strum you silver strings
put down your cup which drowns the sounds of us
one hallowed night delfiled, I concieved your child
the life that you disown, the wile you tried to own
at the crossroads of will the child you had me kill
but you had causes, you had hope
you always had enough rope
and as you mother, I gave birth to you
and'still you do not know me

before you sing, before you strum your muted strings
put down your cross, consider what it has cost
my mask it mirrors yours, the task you must endure
layed out upon your bed, to cup your weary head
you have poisoned well the songs you sell
you've created hell upon earth
and the gleemen laugh with their ghoulish glee
and still you do not know me

Note: This song is from a forthcoming play by Gia.ncarlo Biagi and Jack Hardy with songs by Jack Hardy. In this song the lead character, a singer, is being attacked by the muse in the form of the'lhree phases of the moon godess. The muse is explaining why she has forsaken the singer; he has not confronted love, he has not confronted the family, and ha has not confronted his own mortality. The muse is wearing masks, the singer is wearing a guitar.

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