Background Production Notes
to the KyPoetry recording of the poem, All Woman Next to You, written by Kylyra
All Woman Next to YouI watched you as you lay Sleeping in the early eastern light. The urge was so strong I had to fight it down Beat it back To hold you, for just one night How can you keep Sleeping like a child When I'm all woman next to you? I drown in your dominion. As the music pounds my mind, In a room full of people You are all I find When I look up. And the morning after You lay sleeping Like a boy-king Sprawled across your throne. You won't even meet me eyes To offer me a bone to chew on. I could scream till my face is blue; How can you keep Sleeping like a child When I'm all woman next to you? We won't speak Of this, we never do. One more twisted cigarette butt And oh, there's quite a few Under the carpet this morning. How can you keep Sleeping like a child When I'm all woman next to you? |
The first sound on this piece is a heartbeat, one of the most primal sounds known to humans. I used it to invoke an intimate, personal feeling to this piece, and to reinforce the concept that the poem is from the heart. The melody interwoven underneath, titled 'Lament of Unshed Tears', begins with a repeated pattern played on strings. The pattern descends the scale, giving the listener a slightly depressed, sad feel. When the repeated refrain: How can you keep Sleeping like a child When I'm all woman next to you? appears, a keyboard sound that falls several octaves is heard. This sound underlies the depression of the piece, and the sorrow delivered in this refrain. When the second stanza begins, a heavy sub bass (again falling in tone) is heard. This sound is used for two reasons: first, to give ambience to the stanza, which discusses a loud, crowded room with music, and second, to subliminally reinforce the feeling that this poem is not about a one night encounter, that the feeling behind it runs deeper than that. The higher string sound that is heard in the second stanza is the lead instrument, lending structure to the piece and drawing it away from a drone or rutted feeling towards a feeling of flow from beginning to end. The notes played again reinforce the sad nature of this piece, with the high point reached at: I could scream till my face is blue underlying the raw truth and charged emotion of this line. 'Lament of Unshed Tears' ends at the beginning of the final repeated refrain. The piece fades out on the heartbeat and falling keyboard sound, leaving the listener in an intimate, inner questioning mood. |
