Christiana

*** Metaphysical girlfriend sets the rules on a romantic hiking trip in the Engadine, home of Nietzche ***

VERSE 1 [A minor]

Rail to St Moritz, depart for Val Fex

Clear alpine air that brought spring to our steps

Eyes on the snow line we smiled all the way

Walking at Lake Silvaplana

VERSE 2

Later we paused above high summer clouds

Contemplate how every scene might play out

Saw Sils Maria in summer’s new morn

Gazing at dear Christiana

PRE-CHORUS 1 [Dminor]

April came and April went to melt the winter snow

The glacier had moved and then she had to let me go

Be back with autumn’s clouded moon, the letters that she’d send

CHORUS 1 [F sharp minor]

“Love new unto ourselves

Seen through a different lens

What drives the beating heart?

Look through each basic part

Your love is not for me

Control not liberty

Greed by another name

Unconscious of your aims”

VERSE 3 [A minor]

Walked far ahead of me, mile after mile

Never to compromise or reconcile

Dreamless, unconscious, the unrisen sun

Following dear Christiana

PRE-CHORUS 2 [D minor]

She would smile and then confess

An urge to greed and selfishness…

The will to power must obtain

Dominion over others’ pain

I’d criticize the casual way she’d say it so dismissively

CHORUS 2 [Fsharp minor]

“Love seems to be the goal

Loss, fear that kills the soul

Man’s primary concern

Take what you cannot earn

Your love is not for me

Control not liberty

Greed by another name

Unconscious of your aims”