What a What a strangling knot to be in To be exiled To be in Berlin with Vienna so near Yet so far from the ear a strange and impossible sum To be old while to be so young To have sung speaking a word To be To be Then to To be To love but to be so To and to be so deceived To mourn, forlorn, to be torn you Scorned for who suffers no grief To God, seeking lightning And to still be To hide in this room, now too to afford To hear armies of bang at the door Always yelling for And to have to sell that could help for the Steinway that sits in the corner
For Arthur it all too easily To learn the scales in key To play the etudes and the The and The Fantaisie To master the sonatas, minuets, and To seek the fits and starts To strike the middle F it's an arrow through the heart To wing the right like a dove
(the peaceful flutter of a dove) And with left a violent shove
(some moments demand a shove) To needle gently yet relentless with a steady upon the pedal And to clench the iron first the velvet glove To to whisper and to scream (the whisper the scream) To let each yearning finger (no, nothing unless it breathes) To burn, to worship, to To pose a with a pinky on a key To flee, to fight, to To in air Nothing solid To rap those heavy knuckles on the gate to til there's nothing to Achieve, but To go retrieve the of cable hidden in the cabinet To metamorphasize the twisted unto an alphabet To lay the C upon the shabby wooden floor to rest To send the end the top and bend the C into an S To curve the tail beneath the S to turn the to a B To hug the root around the fibers suffocatingly To wrap again to again to give the coil seven loops To penetrate the hoop To tug the loose through To yank the knot until it's for the job
it's got to do To toss the braid above the ceiling beam and to affix the To bid adieu to all of there's nothing left to do but the chair To the collar the edge To step the air