Story Behind The Song
This song is from a concept album called "No Clothes on Ragged Island based on the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The project was conceived by Kevin Peckham and Karl Ward on February 20, 2010, as part of the RPM Challenge. Each song is a scene from Millay's life, told in chronological order.
Song Description
In 1913 Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poor girl from a small town in Maine, entered Vassar College in the Hudson River valley on a scholarship based on her potential as a poet. Millay eventually went on to become one of the most famous poets of the world during the height of her fame. This song chronicles her feelings about her time at Vassar based on poetry she wrote as a student and after.
| Song Length |
3:45 |
Genre |
Rock - Indie/Low-Fi, Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Relaxed, Content |
Subject |
School, Change |
| Similar Artists |
, Leonard Cohen |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
I'll take the field and forest
I'll take the sound
Of the sky to one ear,
One ear to the ground
In the springtime
All hands reach to the sun
I will touch one hundred flowers
And not pick one
I will be the air
If you'll be the seed
I will carry you
If you will go where I lead
Summer wind carries us down these halls
Faster than we can run
I will knock at one hundred doors
And not enter one
If I escape you
Will you run after me?
If I come back to you tonight
Will you turn away from me?
We make our bed in these autumn leaves
The night sky above
I will light one hundred fires
I will not be burned by this love
I am most constant
When I am least true.
But the miles stretch between us,
It doesn't hurt like it used to.
We lie as seeds between
The winter snow and the stone
I will touch one hundred women
And still feel alone