An Island in the Moon

I wrote this song for two great performers who happen to be very close friends. Tyler's smooth and beautiful voice lends itself perfectly to the long and languid lines of this composition. The music, especially in the piano part, really signifies the starkness and despair of Blake's words. The first line is set in a quasi-folksong manner, but disolves into an ambiguous and evocative accompaniment to the remaining text. The first line returns in the middle and at the end of the song to offer both a compositional framework and a symbolical frame of reference to a more stable emotional state.