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Answering Emma

from My Mind Was a Mirror by Terry Champlin

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from the song cycle "To Match the Voice and the Face"
poem by Carolyn Dewald

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by Carolyn Dewald

Driving back last week
leaving you
four states and two large deserts away
I did not start to cry
until I came to the sign
dividing east from west.

Water now for you runs east;
you are very far away,
doing things that I have never done
with people I will never meet.

But something like the pull of the moon
on the spring tide binds us.
My arms know how your shoulders feel,
how the long bones move in their sockets,
how you throw your head
back when you laugh,
the drawl with which you speak French,
how your fingers fold around mine.

If the ground beneath could speak
to the young birch
lovely in its white bark
and new spring leaves,
what on earth would it say?

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from My Mind Was a Mirror, released January 31, 2012
performed by:
Helen Avakian, guitar, voice
Jeff Haynes, percussion
Sabina Torosjan, violin
Scott Petito, guitar
Terry Champlin, guitar
Vilian Ivantchev, guitar

recorded by Scott Petito at NRS Studios.
produced by Terry Champlin and Scott Petito.
mixed by Scott Petito.
mastered by Scott Petito.

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Terry Champlin Pleasant Valley, New York

Originally educated as a theoretical physicist at MIT, Terry switched to music at the age of 21. His music has been performed around the world by such artists as Evangelos and Liza, David Starobin, and The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall.

Terry is on the faculties of Vassar College and the Mannes College of Music.
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