Words for the Abandoned (Tim Blickhan)

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(Posted 2009-12-02) CPDL #20527:

Editor: Tim Blickhan (submitted 2009-11-25). Score information: Octavo, 6 pages, 58 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Words for the Abandoned
Composer: Tim Blickhan
Lyricist: Joseph Gastiger^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2005
Description: No. 2 of "Songs for the Abandoned" (see Composer's Page for the other movements).

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Original text and translations

English text

WORDS FOR THE ABANDONED (excerpts)

If you were important, you would be somewhere
else. All the important people have flown away.

If you were blessed as they, you, too
would vanish.

If you can hear me now, you've been appointed
no one to worry about—hiding in a cellar,

coughing in a clinic, crouching in what, yesterday,
could have been a laboratory, could have been a school.

Choices were made. You weren't counted.

JOSEPH GASTIGER