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'The Book of Never' Libretto

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I. PASSIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE… O oh, I wait… oh… oh, will I wait? oh, why? O Lord …all hours …all my people all now all I want…

…other people …another other people now… go on…

…all my hidden life… I’m lost in me I will need… …my love…

I’m new I’ll be gone I’m all of me now I’ll love you

And I’ll pain to go

I know that I’m lost

You led them…

my blood know my blood… …know my pain… …I’m not in pain now

…I wept I will not break …all my sorrow now …you will stay

I’ll be you I’ll be you… I’m whole I’ll make you whole

O Lord, I want to say my silence

I know

…you led them by the hand…

How I long… on my own now all now all now …on my own now…

I am gone I will go I’ll stay I’ll remain

I’ll clean my hand …my fair flesh …and my eye my flesh is clean

I know O Lord

…and will to go now oh, I’ll break now oh, why alone? oh, I’ll wait now. …oh on my own…

I’ll be near you… …now I’m you… Whole now…

I… I… I… I…

Remember? I remember now… I know now… I know you…

I know now

…but you wouldn’t lead me… …now …now …now …now

I’ll go now O Lord …all… all gone… I will go my own… …on my own…

…. …. …. ….

I’ve no sympathy …all my suffering… …all my pain …my pleasure

I cry out from nowhere All alone, I will go

I will to go now …now …now …now …now

but I’m still here I’m not here I’ll be here I’m here

we suffer still …I feel still I sit still we can be greater still

I cry out for days and years of forever…

And I know

…wouldn’t walk with me… I am not me I am not myself …now …not now… …through the darkness… O… O… O… O…

Go you know… I’m another… my people you go

all my life… oh, I’m lost oh, I am gone all through my years…

…for those of whom we only know nothing…

…through the cold… …through the skies…

…for those whose pain pours out of the skies…

I know I’ll go

…through the silence… O Lord

…like darkness in the cold of silence…

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