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Animal Song Page
This is a new feature of the Interspecies website. In my own attempt to give something back to the community in which I live, I have started to produce local musicians, who, otherwise, might not get an opportunity to be heard by such a large network as visits this website. The Musical Gift project also fulfills a desire for Interspecies to become more active in the global movement of community art. Every so often, we'll post a new song by a composer and singer you've probably never heard of. There are just two criteria to post your own song here:
1. The song must sound great on its own behalf.
2. The song must incorporate ambient nature sounds as one essential feature of the performance.
I decided to start with a new song of my own. Last days is a statement about death with dignity, written as a request by a dying patient to his doctor. Listen closely, and you'll also hear excerpts of a realtime interaction between wolves and flute recorded on one of Interspecies first field projects, to the mountains of Nevada in 1974.
Weeks go by when standing’s too much for me to bear
Then one good day arrives, the pain seems to disappear
It could take as long as a year or two
Before my body finally goes
Doc, won’t you please prescribe the medicine
No one else ever has to know
My family does its best to help me bear this pain
They accept my decision, sure I feel their strain
I’ve never told anyone how to live their life
So don’t tell me how to end mine
Doc, won’t you please prescribe the medicine
And I won’t take any more of your time
These days my body’s numb and all strung out on meds
Hooked to this humming machine parked beside my bed
What makes so much more sense to me
Is to go out clear of mind
Doc, please prescribe some medicine
Before I run out of time.
Who can say for certain what awaits us after this
While some say we come back, others talk of heaven’s bliss
But don’t lecture me that life’s worth living
Can’t you see its meaningless to me
Doc, won’t you please prescribe some medicine
And you will set me free
See you next month.
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