Post # 1: “Time Sighed” by The Time Signatures

“Time Sighed”

In

due

time

We’ll

all

climb

Red ladders to the clouds

Where ancient cartoon gods

Play

with grey

female aliens

Lightning

Strike

Trident

Bite

Lotus pose before the cave

Acorn shells brown as pine

Time

don’t take no sides

Time

is only sighed

Musical Prompt:
“Steel Tongue Drum, high tenor male lead singer, choral background singers, minimal glockenspiel and percussion” 

Background:

In early 2023, someone donated a Steel Tongue Drum to the youth center that my partner and I founded and operate. Each morning or afternoon before we opened, I would play around on the instrument and I gradually started writing a song. As the song was forming on the instrument, a vocal melody began to form but for months I couldn’t come up with lyrics that felt like a good fit. Finally, some lyrics were written based on an experience that had occurred a couple of years prior during a kind of guided meditation that a friend led me through via zoom. During that guided meditation, many of the images mentioned in the song were experienced, like the Red Ladder to The Clouds, the Ancient Cartoon God frolicking with a Grey Female Alien, and another alien sitting in Lotus Pose in front of a Cave.