Name: The Silent Piano
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: A song about the death of a young girl from sickness/contamination.

The Silent Piano

from The Gasoline Coast by Nick Di Gaetano

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A song about the death of a young girl from sickness/contamination.

lyrics

On the day that she died
The bed was all covered in roses.
And the keys stood like soldiers
On the silent piano.
The dolls one by one came to wish her goodbye.

You said in your blindness:
“I’m the first one to do something finally.
I like staying home
And playing the piano
The thing I don’t like is to be left behind.”

If we look,
What will we find
Under these
Little stones of the earth.
Bones, polished and bright or covered in dirt?

It’s been years
Since you’ve died.
The house is all cobwebbed and silent.
And the keys stand like soldiers
On the silent piano,
The dolls have been packed up and all put away.
There’s a ghost haunts your room
Singing your melody
Weeping inconsolably every night.

If we look,
What will we find
Under these
Little stones of the earth.
Bones, polished and bright or covered in dirt?

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from The Gasoline Coast, released February 21, 2014

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Nick Di Gaetano Smiths Falls, Ontario

Nick is a songwriter, actor/improviser, comedian and sound designer from Ottawa, ON. His musical work ranges from punk/hardcore to theatre/film scores to folky-synthy jams about science fiction.
He lives in Smiths Falls, ON with his beautiful wife, their two amazing sons and a cat named Poo Poo. ... more