Topic: Throw Away The Lights
https://share.google/images/6t8Oz11MchDHzGzdP (link to Louise Fishman)
A link to recent review of her work - and what inspired me to write this song.
https://www.artforum.com/events/louise- … 234734033/
I used the words from the poem she referred to as the opening lines of my song.
It was from a Wallace Stevens Poem called “The Man with the Blue Guitar XXXII” (1937) ( it's Verse 32 !) that begins with the canto:
Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
here is a link to the whole poem - https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis … uitar.html
She was such a fighter for women's rights, and a humanists in every sense.
She was also a dear friend of mine whom I miss !
This is the song
Throw Away the Lights (Please Louise) By Jim Kenyon
Verse 1
[G]Throw a[D]way the [Em]lights, [C]the defi[G]nitions,
[G]And say [D]what you [Em]see [C] in the [D]dark.
[G]No chains [D]of words,[Em] no [C]false con[G]ditions,
[G] feel my [D] wild heart’s [Em] fire [C] lit with just a [D] spark
Pre-Chorus
[Em] The world will [C]try to name my [D] soul,
[Em]But I'm not a [C] story that they con[D]trol.
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Whisper oh remember...
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Chorus
[C]I won’t be [D] caged by [C] who they say I [G] am,
[C] I’m more than the [D]lines that they [C] draw in the [G] sand.
[C] defiant and [D] different, [C]I’ll make my [G] stands,
[C]I’m just [D]the truth of my [C] mind and [G] hands.
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Verse 2
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[G] Shadows [D]whisper [Em]names [C]that they’ve [G]given,
[G]But none [D] of them [Em]can ever [C]carry my [D]flame.
[G]I’ve fought [D]every [Em]day, the [C] prison of their [G]chains
[G]And here [D]still I [Em]rise, [C]proud and una[D]shamed.
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Pre-Chorus
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[Em] The world will [C]try to name my [D] soul,
[Em]But I'm not a [C] story that they con[D]trol.
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Whisper Just remember...
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Chorus
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[C]I won’t be [D] caged by [C] who they say I [G] am,
[C] I’m more than the [D]lines that they [C]draw in the [G] sand.
[C] defiant and [D] different, [C]I’ll make my [G] stands,
[C]I’m just [D]the truth of my [C] mind and [G] hands.
Outgo - Slow
[G]Throw a[D]way the [Em]lights, [C]the definit[G]ions,
[G]And please Lou[D]ise, [C]see me for who I [G]am
slower
Yeah, please Lou[D]ise, [C] see me for who I [G]am.
The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it. - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke
