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Another String Pulled from the Theory

from NoteSpeak 12 by Lisa Marie Simmons, Marco Cremaschini

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lyrics

As a child

delight in the mystery

Why mommy why

yeah but why uh huh but why

The answers never satisfy there is always one more string to be pulled from the theory

Infinite is a concept we struggle with at three

It’s scary

This vast unknowable world

Out of my mother I came born

upon the endless river

through the space of time which never existed

or always did

Up like you I grew and flew a bird on an unseen current no matter if it’s known
It’s there or is it not?

Martian Venutian Jovian Space Creatures

they exist

and they don’t

Both left and right

Both flight and fight

Intones the Daughter universe

Portals and black holes
Cosmic rays and dark matter
Gods and Goddesses

are what we need
are angels and devils
I
n this alien laboratory
with inter-dimensional travel

Can I get an explanation please?

How to define why we’re here?
Is it to explain away all fear?
Then sit suffused in love
no wonder and wondrous
sudden starlit supernova

Nothing matters
but this
is
all
there
is

She asks...
Why do butterflies fly are they happy

and why
looking at

where the sea hugs the sky
does my tummy feel funny

and isn’t it funny
t
hat roly poly bugs curl into a tight little ball
and why are they so small

What’s in the head of that hedgehog
when he eats the dog’s food

does he want in or

a cuddle
also, is that a sin
Why not if stealing is naughty
why wouldn’t that count

and look at that cloud

why does it look like a trout

Why do I have to eat breakfast

if I’m not hungry anyway

and why is it called hunger

and why doesn’t everyone pray, or do they?

Why is the sky blue

and what’s behind it

and is that plane stuck to it with glue?

Why if you speak two languages does kitty speak only catlish
and won’t learn english

Why can’t I stay up as late as you do?
Don’t you need just as much dream time?
Why do we exist

what and where is my soul

why do we kiss

Can I get an explanation please?
why mommy why

yeah but why uh huh but why
Is anything possible?

Anything within reach?
Everything we can conceive is true
Or not

How to define why we’re here?
Is it to explain away all fear?
Then sit suffused in love
no wonder and wondrous
sudden starlit supernova

Nothing matters
but this
is

all
there
is

credits

from NoteSpeak 12, released February 24, 2023
Lisa Marie Simmons - Lead Vocal, Lyrics, Composer (All Tracks)
Marco Cremaschini - Keyboards, Arrangements, Composer (All Tracks), Percussion 12
Marco Cocconi - Electric and Acoustic Bass - (All Tracks)
Federico Negri - Drums (All Tracks), Composer 5
Manuel Caliumi - Alto Saxophone (All Tracks), Composer 5
Laura Masotto - Violin 2, 8
Denise Dimè - Vocals, Lyrics 4
Dionne Draper - Vocals 9
Ernest Ikwanga - Guitars 2, 4, 11
Mauro Negri - Tenor Saxophone 1, 6, 10, 11
Federico Pierantoni - Trombone 1, 6 , 10, 11
Fulvio Sigurtà - Trumpet, Flugelhorn 1, 6, 10, 11
Donata Greco - Flute 1
Weedie Braimah - Percussion 8, 11
Maurizio Giannone - Percussion 4

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Digitube Studio, sound engineer Carlo Cantini

Executive Producer Louis Marks

Producers:
Isell Denson
Rosey Bloch
Natalia Semler
Jeff Bloch
Anna Perrino

Painting/Cover Art Elena Crisanti
Photography by Peter Abraham and Giacomo Pini
Graphics Monica Polato

For Isell Denson, Shirley Kellum, and Tony Allen

Much gratitude to James Morehead for essential feedback, webmaster extraordinaire Scott Williams from Cotts, inc. Digital Marketing, and Chris M. Slawecki, Senior Editor at All About Jazz. Your unwavering support since this was but a twinkle in our eyes has been invaluable.

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"Musically & vocally, NoteSpeak consistently changes, shifting from style to style – acoustic jazz solos into hip-hop beats into harmonized gospel vocals into electronic jazz and fusion into free verse rhyming – and yet seems to constantly groove... " All About Jazz Chris M. Slawecki ... more

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