EDIT: I was playing the tune on my new recorder (soprano, just like in infants! - I was feeling nostalgic) and, as bad as I was (I had ONE lesson in infants, and then picked it up in senior school when we had, *cough*, "music" lessons - although I really don't call Chopin's whatever it was in C minor (I may be wrong about that but it rings a distant bell) music by any stretch of the imagination (sorry if you're a Chopin fanboy/fangirl but there are tonnes better composers out there if you want to get children interested in classical music at that age)) I found I could play the tune to some extent. That led to me wanting to put the music down in writing, so to speak. So I did a quick Google and downloaded Notepad Finale to have a mess about. The result is that with these lyrics you now have an "idea" (I'm tone-deaf, using a recorder as the basis for the notes, and have never had any training in notation. So the timing is out a lot, I know. The idea is that those of you with a good musical appreciation may actually hear how it's supposed to in your heads. To the rest of you, yes this *is* two cats fighting in a bag!).
The music is only for the verses and chorus, just so as you are aware...
Back in 2005 I wrote a collection of songs which covered a number of "dark" themes; adultery, death, murder, paedophilia, bullying, rape, suicide, and more. All-in-all there were 11 songs which I bandied together as an "album" called Malice Through the Mocking Glass (the title derived from Alice Through the Looking Glass and an Agatha Christie short story called In a Glass Darkly). Actually, one of the songs I included was more surrealistic than dark as it turned out but I left it in to lighten the mood somewhat, and the last song ended on a (very slightly) optimistic note...
This song has a melancholy tune to it. It's a song about bullying so don't expect raindrops and roses...YOUR EMERALD EYES (CRY THE LONELIEST TEARS)VERSEI see a shadow cross your face
And for a moment
You look around with frightened eyes
Each time you think you have escaped
The past is over
But you can never let it lie
CHORUSAnd as for stolen childhood dreams
A future never meant to be
If you could start anew you'd stifle all your fears
Your emerald eyes cry the loneliest tears
VERSEYou ask yourself time and again
When was that moment
When they set you in their sights?
And will this nightmare never end?
You search for omens
That are silent in the night
CHORUSYou live the future and the past
Because the present doesn't last
You stand Canute-like as the tide is drawing near
Your emerald eyes cry the loneliest tears
VERSEYou close your eyes and say a prayer
That for a moment
You can be free from all their hate
It's hard to fight against despair
When there is no one
Who can help you to feel safe
CHORUSYou curse the day that you were born
And wish damnation on them all
Is it too much to ask they simply disappear?
Your emerald eyes cry the loneliest tears
INSTRUMENTALEXTRAA candle lit upon an alter and a prayer
Cannot dry your bloodshot eyes
How can such pain arise from nothing but their words?
Words that could cut you like a knife
VERSEYou seek an answer to it all
And for a moment
You almost have it in your grasp
You let it slip away once more
The moment's over
It is buried in the past
CHORUSYou wonder how you can go on
When there is nothing to be done
And in the mirror is a girl from yesteryear
Your emerald eyes cry the loneliest tears!
CHORUSYou put the thought out of your mind
That there are ties still left that bind
You close your eyes
And cut the ties
And slay the fear
Your emerald eyes
Will never more cry
Another single tear...
