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You're a force of nature
Growing, exploding, fermenting, cementing our love
You're a force of habit
I know all your ways and they're not just a phase
But I like it, I like it
You're a force of God
Who animates my love for you
Animates your love for me
And every little thing that we do
You're a force God
Who lives in you and lives in me
Illuminating space and time
Without that nothing could even be
I am the lily of the valley
You're the gazelle across the hills
Searching for me,
And bounding over all the mountains toward me,
Crossing the hills that stand between us
Feasting, feasting
You're a force of God
Who animates my love for you
Animates your love for me
And every little thing that we do
You're a force God
Yet the routine is enervating
Pulling me further from the source of our love
I cannot bear it
Help me
Help me to grow beyond my nature
Lift me up
Show me the mountain where I found you
Bring me up
I am like the chaff that wind just blows away
I am like a tree whose roots have gone astray
Gone astray, I've gone astray
I am the lily of the valleys
You're the gazelle across the hills
Find me, find me
Or I'll grow over all the mountains
Crossing the hills that stand between us
Reaching for you
You're a source of
Everything in me
Everything in you
Comes from somewhere
Come from something
All I have to do
All we have to do
Is get closer the source
You're a force God,
Who lives in you and lives in me,
Illuminating everything that we are
And that we'll ever be
You're a force of God
Who animates my love for you
Animates your love for me
And every little thing that we do
You're a force of nature
Expanding, commanding my doubts notwithstanding and
You're a force of nature
Exploding, eroding the doubts I'm unloading
You're a source of laughter
Your crazy demeanor is just what I'm after
I love the way
From day to day
You're love is like wine
Much sweeter than wine
Gingi Lahera-vocal
Peter Saltzman-piano & B3
Jim Gailoretto-tenor sax
Katherine Hughes-violin
Mark Agnor-violin
Ben Wedge-viola
Jill Kaeding-cello
Rob Kassinger-bass
Jeff Stitely-drums
Producer: Peter Saltzman
Assistant Producer: Steve Weeder
Chief Engineer & mixer: Steve Weeder
Assistant Engineer: Steve Johnson
Mastering Engineer: Danny Leake
Recorded an mixed at
Hinge Recording Studios, Chicago, IL
(Notes by Peter Saltzman)
The text for this 10 minute movement is very loosely based on the "Song of Songs" or Shir Hasharim, an piece of erotic poetry that got into the Hebrew Cannon supposedly because the great Rabbi Akiba and his pals interpreted the whole thing as a metaphor for God's love of his people Israel. (Incidentally, I wrote a song cycle using actual text—well, a modern English translation anyway—from the Songs of Songs back in 1997. It's published by Oxford University Press and is quite beautiful. You can hear it here.) The Kabbalist, big fans that they were of the erotic connection between man an God, at this up and made it a big part of their. Me? Well, judging from this particular lyric, I eat it up, too. I could say a lot more about this movement, but there's already plenty of music and lyric. It's quite a piece of musical drama.