Denouement (with Matt Guntrip, guitar) by Vikki C. Music published on 2022-07-09T17:11:24Z 'Denouement' was originally written on the piano to accompany a poem of the same name. I later had the pleasure of working with songwriter and guitarist Matt Guntrip who added his stunning guitar to the track. I feel that the guitar has truly elevated the piece by accentuating the nuances of the story in a powerful way. I hope you enjoy this "music-spoken word" landscape which aims to bring home the sentiments of love and life endured across the passage of time. 'Denouement' piano and poem - written and performed by VWC Poetry & Music Guitar and production - Matt Guntrip Do check out more of Matt's beautiful music: Matt Guntrip 7-9 on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jrV6M Cover art by Vikki 11th July, 2022 ____ Lyrics (by VWC Poetry & Music): Denouement I want to be there, in your broken reflection the one that haunts you after the end maybe we were right then but now we're wrong like stirring pale clouds into steeped tea just an illusion of something far away married into an unextraordinary routine but it is vital, this milk of memory makes life mildly bearable when I stare in the mirror, I see you madly in love, still you see me, a Plath poem pressed to my heaving chest a girl you once knew, now trapped in her own mind: a library of stories belonging to others, vellichor draped over an aloneness that defies poetic justice the window left open to a perpetual sunset a sleeper train interrupts the horizon it carries the cargo of absence across a long and winding road to some fool's paradise with no name along those boundless fields, we walked there, time is a quicksilver bullet, then gone light dissipating everywhere but here I accept that now, silent all these years how love changes even in the aftermath its death, sudden and swift, so the stories go I'm going home now maybe the mourning will end after the dirge but my black heart will always believe in its ghost ...and I confess, what remains, is quietly startling. ____ #piano #poetry #guitar Genre Piano Comment by Jongle beautiful 2022-09-21T00:42:18Z Comment by Kate Stanton I've listened to 2 of your songs in a row (both versions of Denouement) and I am blown away by your talent and grace. Gorgeous work Vikki. Piano. Arrangement. Poetry. You're a class act! So glad to have met you here. 2022-09-16T20:22:36Z Comment by No killie fish Really stunning and emotional Vikki, love the passion in the verse and that crying guitar Matt, exceptional . Johnny 2022-08-02T20:42:13Z Comment by Deirdre Macdougall Wow Vikki this is so amazing ! All of it !π β€οΈ 2022-08-01T07:21:56Z Comment by betterlate Beautiful piece Vikki, the guitar, piano and poem combine beautifully ππ 2022-07-27T10:18:08Z Comment by Prop3r Earworm β€οΈπΆπΉπΈ 2022-07-12T17:49:01Z