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Groovelily with Tom Prasada​-​Rao - Everything Changes But You

from Sleeping Beauty Wakes by GrooveLily

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GROUNDSKEEPER’S SON
Pruning the brambles and branches between us
Planting the dahlias and daisies around
A daffodil-daylily-dandelion border
And you are some kind of arboreal Venus
Peaceful perfection in petal-soft gown
Showers of springtime are sprouting new
seedlings as shadows grow shorter
And everything changes but you

I trim back the ivy we planted together
So there will be nothing obstructing your view
Of the roses and robins and redwoods—
remember
Hiding and seeking in hedgerows and heather
Under a sky of cerulean blue
Sunshine suffuses the season from solstice clear
through to September
And everything changes but you
Everything changes but

You stay the same
Here in the glade
Always in bloom
Never to fade

Never to hear
The hummingbird’s hum
Never to know
The man I have become

Chill in the air as the ground starts to harden
Leaves change from greens into yellows
and reds
With no one to see in this palace of sleepers
This is the last time I’ll tend to your garden
I am too old to be planting new beds
Flowers and field mice and grapevines and
graying assistant groundskeepers

Everything changes but you
Everything changes but you

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from Sleeping Beauty Wakes, released April 27, 2009
Written by: Milburn & Vigoda
Lead Vocal: Brendan Milburn
Guitar: Tom Prasada-Rao
Violin solo: Valerie Vigoda

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Bicoastal trio GrooveLily inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz and pop. The success of their first concert-musical, the critically-acclaimed holiday show STRIKING 12, has led them farther into the world of theatre, where they have carved out a unique niche as a rock band writing and performing shows. ... more

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