about
the portrait
It was a normal night. He went to bed only to awaken some time later in a sea of darkness, no way of knowing where he was, he asked “if it’s morning, shouldn’t there be light?” In response, a living image in the sky showed him the magnificent beauty of our earth, and how humans are destroying her… ‘then man sets his fire, and boulders of smoke replace the sun, in blackened disguise, is nature’s demise, oh what have we done??!?” Our hero returns home promising to share what he’s learned, and ask us all… “If it’s morning, shouldn’t there be light?!”
lyrics
the portrait
‘He had gone to sleep as though it were any other night.
But, soon in a dream, he was transported to another place, another dimension.
He had awakened to the darkness, the silence only to be broken by a powerful but distant voice
crying out its message through a living image in the sky - The Portrait…'
If it’s morning, shouldn’t there be light?
The haze in my eyes from the darkness has left me blind
I feel a warning, and yet no one appears
A voice from above calls out pleading me to hear ...
‘Can you hold me? Keep the promise you’ve told me?
Show your love to the child you call your own?’
I look around me, unfamiliar ground
The voice fires light through a Portrait filled with sound
It shows me rivers, flowing rainbowed hues
Then suddenly the colors of life turn dark refuse
‘Can you hold me? Keep the promise you’ve told me?
Show your love to the child you call your own?
I can hold you. Hear the words that I’ve told you
Follow me and you’ll find your way back home’
The Portrait goes bright. The visions can tear your soul away
The wind-blown serene of forested green
In rhythms that only life can play
Then Man sets his fire, and boulders of smoke replace the sun
In blackened disguise is Nature’s demise
Oh what have we done???
A tear befalls me, for I’ve learned this time
A brightened horizon awaits if we heal our crime
You’ve told our story, and I’ll plant your seed
Now Portrait I beg for your ears, hear my plea...
I will hold you, and keep the promise I’ve told you
Show my love to the Child we call our own
Will you hold me? I’ve heard the words that you’ve told me
I’ll follow you and I’ll find my way back home
... If it’s morning, shouldn’t there be light ?
‘The day had begun as though he had never left. Was it only a dream?
Now returned to familiar surround, he lifted himself off the bed
and walked over to the window.
A pillar of smoke was climbing its way toward the sun.
Can you hold me?’
Words & Music by Mark Fenster © 2018 Autumn Song / SOCAN
credits
from
spark,
track released November 27, 2018
Music & Lyrics: Mark Fenster
String Arrangements: Mark Fenster
Introduction String Arrangements: Jan Jarczyk
Published by: Autumn Song Publishers
Produced By: Howard Redekopp & Mark Fenster
Engineered & Mixed by: Howard Redekopp
Mastered by: Brock MacFarlane, CPS Mastering
Mark Fenster: Guitars, Lead & Harmony Vocals, Percussion
Zoe Fenster: Harmony Vocals
Howard Redekopp: Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers
Pat Steward: Drums
Cameron Wilson: Violin
Henry Lee: Viola
Finn Manniche: Cello
Lawrence Mollerup: Double Bass
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