Kenya Fulton ARTHI 4122–001: John Cage: Concepts & Ideas Fall 2020 THE SPIRITUAL CAGE John Cage was already on his way to becoming an accomplished composer before he encountered the philosophies of Zen Buddhism. His musical compositions would begin to take quite the turn in the late 1940s and early…

They say, “A man ain’t supposed to cry” But Jesus wept And Apollo shed tears of Amber Strip off your glamour And take a walk with me By the Baltic Sea We ain’t got all the time in the world Are you waiting on your prince To bring you diamonds and pearls? Well, it would be my pleasure To share with you My treasure

Whispering Windz Please deliver my news And fare thee well across the sky Bring this message to my friends And clear them of their blues It breaks my heart to know they cry I used to think That the rising sun Was the greatest sight that I could see But to see you smile It means everything, Just everything to me.

Under the cover of Darkness Baby, I dream of you But when I wake up without you Baby, what will I do? It’s hard for me To wrap my mind around the fact That I can’t wrap my arms around you Our roads were crossed In Paradise, Lost My Darling, then I found you…

I didn’t mean to love you But you stroked my heart and made it purr I try to recapture what was on my mind, my dear But that time is just a blur Animalistic instincts drove us And our creatures did stir And though I sank my fangs into your flesh All I could think of was…

I’m so tired I can’t wait to go to sleep Where’s the fire? And who buried it so deep? In me? In you? I’m so hungry I can’t seem to get my fill Why, I’m lonely Everything seems less than real To me To you I’m so tired With weary eyes…

The moment, a millennium. The tear, an ocean. Then the ever-night enveloped his mind. Murky and dark and foul, the shadow squeezed itself into the very pores and orifices of his body-thing. Writhing. Jerking. Stillness. The light dimmed. The dark became everything. The sun rose. The eye opened. “da’fuck was…

…And I, Have seen it all before And I, Shall see this once again And you, Have seen this all before And you, Shall see it once again The suffering That never ends Can’t calm the storm With fair-weather friends All seems in flux Yet everything stays the same I gave into it With all my heart The entropy Makes it fall apart It’s a losing effort For everyone who plays the game And I, Have seen this all before And I, Shall see it once again And you, Have seen it all before And you, Shall see this once again…

I’ve been calm But now a storm’s a’ brewin’ And everything on land Has transformed to ruin Captain and crew I sail away Out to pillage and plunder Because there’s hell to pay A great darkness stains me Yeah, and a great hurt pains me I’m try’na find out what sustains me Existence…