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Night Has a Thousand Eyes

by ArtIvanChew

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The acoustic guitars in this track were originally from Aussens@iter, released under a Creative Commons Zero license. Listening to them instantly reminded me of songs like “Temple of the King” and “House of the Rising Sun”. There’s something in that chord progression that just says Bittersweet.

Initially I toyed with some lyrics and did a test vocal recording but that didn’t work out. Horrible singing. Gave up on the remix.

By chance, I saw some words that my missus wrote for her calligraphy practice. I said the words sounded like a poem, and she pointed me to Francis William Bourdillon’s “ The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”.

Oh wow.

This poem gives me the chills. It’s brilliant.

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The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Francis William Bourdillon (b. 1852)

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

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released October 22, 2017
It's not necessary to credit materials licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), but I'd like to do so anyway. The acoustic guitars are from: ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56668

Image from Pixabay, under a CC0 license.
pixabay.com/en/human-lovers-night-sky-starry-sky-1215160/

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ArtIvanChew Singapore

Artist | Musician | Former Librarian | Entrepreneur | Creative Commoner

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