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Songs of Euphoria: The Poetry of Dana Maria Basilone

by Valentine Wolfe

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I fell in silence once again I wandered nights blinded And found myself Lost inside of them I looked to trees for guidance I asked the moon for its sight This fire is slowly dying The embers laugh at my despair This bitter cold inside of me Even the flames could not repair And all the things that I have lost My heart cries out in silent air My only comfort is knowing This emptiness inside of me It makes me whole And if you come to my door There will be nobody home
2.
She hangs her pearls upon the limb Before she takes her final swim Cradled within the silent stream Unable to wake from her drowning dream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Can you hear the haunting scream? The waters so cold of Ophelia’s stream Flowers adorn her raven head Remember me sweet upon my death Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Her harp has played its final tune She slips away to her liquid tomb Life is but a haunted dream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream Drowning inside Ophelia’s stream
3.
I will dance and I shall sing Laying violets in a stream I feel the birds and hear the trees Silence was always a friend to me I shall not hide from my fate For I had died long ago inside this place I grew these wings and I shall fly With few cares for sad goodbyes What will be shall always be I’ll dance my way in history I have no cares for hypocrisy Heaven is only a mystery to me So lay me down upon the snow Cover my limbs so they won’t be cold I will not hide from my fate For I had died long ago inside this place
4.
The sky is grey While the days are long A distant cold Upon my skin A lonely fire burns within The clouds are lying cryptic low And so the seeds begin to sow Wandering down below My lonely thoughts will always go The sky is grey While the days are long A distant cold Upon my skin A lonely fire burns within To a world that no one knows Where I can dream and be alone And in this place I will reside Upon white lilies my body lie Where sparrows soar, flying high And lonely loons begin to cry While silent streams begin to flow In the land of the black rose I go Among haunted forests In the land of the black rose I go Among haunted forests Forevermore
5.
There was a death in the garden Wakened by early morning cries When I got there twas too late Sudden sadness, fallen fate There was a death in the garden Beneath the willow tree Though the roses stayed in silence I knew what they had seen So I placed you for them all to see With roses surrounding your limp body And I cried for you, with those humble few Who shall miss you, just like me

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Valentine Wolfe's Songs of Euphoria is a song cycle collaboration with poet Dana Maria Basilone (www.facebook.com/Poetrybydanamaria)

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released June 18, 2022

Music Composed and Performed by Valentine Wolfe: Sarah Black and Braxton Ballew
Lyrics/Poetry by Dana Maria Basilone
Artswork by Egregore Design (image photography by Sarah Black)
Mixed and Mastered by Valentine Wolfe

This recording would not be possible without the support of The Valentine Society. Special Thanks to our Acolytes and Children of the Night:

Ora M.
Heiko and Christa DeWald
Hammad Khan
Jenn & Corwyn
Christopher Carothers
Karen Carothers
Xavier Muñiz
Jeanne and Ross Wilkins
Usagisteve
Phil C.
Stephanie Griffin
Jillian Venters
The Charlotte Geeks
Marco Iannello
Mikey M.
Wendy Ballew
Kim and Chuck Truett
Kyle Seigler
Alexandra Zeldenrust

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Valentine Wolfe Greenville, South Carolina

Two morbidly fascinated musicians combining ambient solo bass, brutal distortion, electronica, and 18th century opera to tell a story of the macabre.

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