From the recording BUT SADLY, SOMEWHERE
“BUT SADLY, SOMEWHERE” is created with regard to the oil canvas “Sirin and Alkonost: The Birds of Joy and Sorrow,” painted by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov in 1896, now located in The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Another source of inspiration for the song’s narrative derives from a collection of fables attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop (ca. 620 BCE-564 BCE).
Lyrics
BUT SADLY, SOMEWHERE
Lyrics by Diana Guber
It’s Yet So Early in this World
Nobody Else, Just You and I
Life Mysteries Become Unfurled
About Love That Soon Shall Die
Why Now Think of The Times of Rain?
That Love is Merely a Madness
Like Sisters in an Unbreakable Chain
Hand in Hand Joy Walks with Sadness
Why Now Think Joy Walks with Sadness?
But Sadly, Somewhere
The Birds of Joy and Sorrow
By Fate Joined
Sing Together
in Counterpoint
Of Love Eternal [And] Evergreen
And Yet, As It’s Always Been
The Blissful Summer [‘d] Be Forgotten
When Leaves Fall From the Trees in Autumn
But Sadly, Somewhere
But Sadly, Somewhere
It’s Yet So Early In the Garden
Our Mystic Love is in Full Bloom
I Pray Our Hearts’d Never Harden
Surrender to Sadness and [to] Gloom
Why Now Think of the Times of Snow?
When This Day Shines with Gladness
Perhaps, You And I Will Never Know
Hand in Hand Joy Walks with Sadness
Why Now Think Joy Walks with Sadness?
But Sadly, Somewhere
The Birds of Joy and Sorrow
By Fate Joined
Sing Together
in Counterpoint
Of Love Eternal [And] Evergreen
And Yet, As It’s Always Been
The Blissful Summer [‘d] Be Forgotten
When Leaves Fall From the Trees in Autumn
But Sadly, Somewhere
But Sadly, Somewhere
C’est Fini