And Then…

I had one of those dreams where areas in a series each have a portal of some sort that opens onto yet another area with its own portal to the next space… and so on; I mean, yes, there is a sense in which all narratives are like that, and dreams tend to be stories and such… or at least my dreams are like that. But this was one of those times where the “rooms” were more distinctly sequenced.

So I thought that I should make a lullaby of that sort. Besides, I was still in the throes of being enamored with the relatively jazzy kind of music found in “Smooth and Blue,” and the looser, improv nature of the tale felt like it would be a good candidate for a similar sort of backing. Plus, I wanted to try something other than the verse, verse, chorus, repeat, kind of pattern that I find familiar and comforting. I do like those structures, in part because Suno tends to use the imported melodic bits for choruses, so I get to hear them more than once in a song. And the reliable pattern is also helpful for lullabies, which are trying to elicit sleep, or at least not be disturbing. But this time, I just wanted to do something different.

Anyway, the recent dreamscape episode that provided the impetus for the lyrics did not involve ymages that would lend themselves to a lullaby, so I hwimsied things up, as per usual.

And yes, I am well aware that mothers are not the only ones who read bedtime stories to their children, but this album was inspired in honor of a birth, and the mother ymage took the stage.

Lyrics

A blanket covers you

woven from moonbeam strands

A magic carpet to

wander off through dreamlands

"I wonder what's in here?"

A garden filled with stars

where monkey balladeers

play hyperspace guitars

And then...

Beneath a silver tree,

a tiny door amiss

so small it's hard to see…

"What if I open this?"

A sea of clouds so white

where bunnies blow a kiss

to dragons in mid-flight

And then...

Upon the nearest cloud

a music box, beware,

its song a thundercloud…

"I'm gonna look in there"

A forest fed by streams

where babies dance with bears

and cha-cha-cha in teams

And then...

Between two sleepy trees

a portal to spellbind

a jester with TVs…

"I wonder what's behind?"

A room of gentle rains

where seahorses so kind

play card games with Great Danes

And then...

The raindrops form a pool

that shows a golden key

so precious and so jeweled…

"I wonder where this leads?"

A playground filled with sheep

where mother softly reads

a book to help me sleep

And then...

A book to help me sleep

with pictures I can see

where in my dreams so deep…

A blanket covers me

woven from moonbeam strands

A magic carpet to

wander off through dreamlands

And then…