Insanity my Best Friend

Insanity, my best friend



Many think I’m insane
‘cause I find my own path
Partly roads less traveled
Finding a few laughs
Embracing all that’s crazy
I seek refuge with the odd
Serving me my master
Not some made up god

Reality does not exist
The nothing rules us all
Time the endless wonder
Throws us up against the wall
The blood that flows in my veins
Is borrowed from the dirt
Ashes dust and back again
It keeps me most alert

Insanity my best friend
Will not leave me alone
So I am never lonely and
I always feel at home
Self medication is my game
I play it all the time
A little bit to soothe the soul
Topped with a glass of wine

Am I all right
Are you okay
It’s all inside my mind
I decide my feelings
So will I be mean or kind
I never know what happens
‘Til the past is in my brain
The future thoughts that might exist
Decide if I’m insane

If I act like all of you
I guess I’d fit right in
But deep inside my other self
I know I just can’t win
I’ll be out in the open
Where all will simply see
There is some type of monster
Living out his life in me

Insane perhaps or just unique
Of course you do not care
In straitjackets and padded cells
With these I make a pair
So toss me in the looney bin
And throw away the key
Away from all the normal ones
Who wish no part of me

The poem I wrote years ago, the music last week.

Here is the MP3

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I did this by hitting record in Sibelius and playing the piano part and then added the clarinet by hand. For those who wonder what kind of score Sibelius does when doing this, here is the score:


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Not very pretty. In fact it is down right ugly. I haven't had the time to clean it up yet.

Both instruments are GPO.

Comments are encouraged.

Ron

P.S. "I used to be crazy. I'm doing much better now." (John Astin in some TV show)

The first 3 notes played by the clarinet sound very familiar; like a "fingerprint". I know I have heard those intervals in your other works here and there.

Well, I'm impressed!
For something resembling a fragmented mind rhythmically there is plenty of lush melodic lucidity to keep ones attention.

Awesome!

Michael

I know it must be boring reading the same post;
but this is more to get the "ball rolling".



Michael

Thanks Michael

I might just follow you into never never land.

Ron