2007
Dream as Chavela Vargas
Artefact: Album, ‘Soledad’, released 2007, the year that Vargas was awarded a Latin Grammy by The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
Short, like a song
She’s old now
No time for long stories
All your dreams get lighter in the night
The years offer the chance to see
Moonlit
Ever less gravity
So let’s go from here
Floating body
Insides outside now
No weight, no longer
Guts, breasts, soul
Knees
Feet dancing hard
Stronger
Red pants skit up those bright glass stairs
Racing to a view of the life we once shared
You
Our love
There, conquered
A life isn’t a thing for getting smaller
Kisses, memories never made to stay
Contained
Passing here from me out to you
Loud, on the breeze
A singing refrain
Last verse, for now
Time will come around and break this heart, somehow
Fill it with juice, with pain
A black dove sings
Knowing the words to be sung
Great doors flung
Open wide
We don’t have a last song to sing each other
Up here
Star-ocean
Flying
Moon-tide
She’s old now
No time for long stories
All your dreams get lighter in the night
The years offer the chance to see
Moonlit
Ever less gravity
So let’s go from here
Floating body
Insides outside now
No weight, no longer
Guts, breasts, soul
Knees
Feet dancing hard
Stronger
Red pants skit up those bright glass stairs
Racing to a view of the life we once shared
You
Our love
There, conquered
A life isn’t a thing for getting smaller
Kisses, memories never made to stay
Contained
Passing here from me out to you
Loud, on the breeze
A singing refrain
Last verse, for now
Time will come around and break this heart, somehow
Fill it with juice, with pain
A black dove sings
Knowing the words to be sung
Great doors flung
Open wide
We don’t have a last song to sing each other
Up here
Star-ocean
Flying
Moon-tide