Eccentric Flower:199903/four voices

twenty-three march

four voices

paradoxical paradaisical paraliptical parapopsicle

Tenor.

i'm a really great writer
i want people to agree
i will show my work to everyone
if they don't love it
i will fix it till they do
i need attention
i need recognition
i need success

Soprano.

if i'm such a great writer
why am i not making a living
doing the words i don't think
i want to hear from anyone
that my work is good if they
tell me that then i have
no excuse if they stay
silent i can assume i didn't
succeed because my work wasn't
good enough not good enough

Alto.

everyone who says
my writing is good
is a friend
maybe my writing
is really good
but i
have yet to hear
it from a source
that i'd trust
it may be that
there isn't a source
that i'd trust
maybe i need
to be insecure
to keep
going

Bass.

none of it matters anyway
good or bad
it's a flyspeck
in a sea full of dreck
even if it's fantastic
only a handful
will ever see it
it's not worth the effort stop wasting the time
stop wasting the time

[N.B. The vocal parts are always sung in this order. Following the fourth part there should be a indeterminate period of utter silence. Then the parts repeat.]

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