I look to you in passing
Morte e Vita (Death and Life)
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)
Music pairing: Handel & Kempff - Keyboard Suite No. 1 (Set II) in B-Flat Major, HWV 434: IV. Menuet
I look to you in passing
Before the fog claims you into the mass
Our time together sketched an
Eternity we thought we had
Days course through my veins
With each breath I make believe
Yet there stands the immortal Joker
Whose undiscriminated smirk remains
Ah, you and I but crossings in the mist
Doomed to wander in a blur
Until the day we drift off the cliff
In days past, in meaning seek
So we sing as a lost thing
Let each other’s songs lead
What we sow, we shall reap
Before the fog extends its reach