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for Helen

Time runs in place, too fast to see or know
like the moon reflecting off the tide
It lives in a sacred space, where the echoes go
and the horsemen of the sunset ride
There is a pattern to the leaves, to the birds that fly;
an arrow running through the stars, not seen by you or I
The wind whistles, or does it cry?
Lullaby, lullaby.

The roads diverge like you and I, like friends when time is spent
leaving in between a ghost filled world.
Across the gulf we can still hear a call both clear and distant
it is there our best songs and poems are heard.
It is there, across this distance our greatest songs are sung;
it’s from the echoes of these valleys that our truest visions come.
The wind whistles, or does it cry?
Lullaby, lullaby.

The years trudge on, the sages say, or the sun would stop and fade away
the stars would get confused and die;
Lullaby, lullaby.

The day we first held something near was the day that we could lose it,
like the moment that we live in or the touch that we feel.
The moment waits for all of us if we have the strength to choose it,
or the courage to make it real.
Anything worth having has the power to break your heart;
it’s taking hold of it anyway that sets us all apart.
The wind whistles, or does it cry?
Lullaby, lullaby.

credits

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