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Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion's “And So,“ from their album 'Rectangles and Circumstance,' out now on Nonesuch: AND SO Words & Music by Caroline Shaw Would a song by any other name Sound as sweet and true? Would all the reds be just the same Or violets as blue? If you were gone Would words still flow And would they rhyme with you? If you were gone Would I still know How to love, and how to grow And how the vowel threads through? And so, you say, the saying goes A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme But in the verse there's always time Would scansion cease to mark the beats if I went away? Would a syllable interrupt the feet of tetrametric iambs when I am gone? Listen, and I will sing a tune of love and life, and of the ocean's prose And the poetry of a red, red rose that's nearly sprung in June And so, you say, the saying goes A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Is a rose is a rose is how I'm Keeping track of time When all the seas rise high, my dear And the rocks melt with the sun Will the memory of us Still rhyme with anyone? Will we still tune our violins? Will we still sing of roses? Will we exist at all, my love Or will we fade to stanzas of the dust That, I suppose, is all we were and all we'll be? And so, the saying, so it goes Depends a lot on if a rose Is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Is a rose is a thing sublime And so we stay on borrowed time #CarolineShaw #SoPercussion
