Name: Flow My Tears
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: I have always found myself drawn to the opposite poles of early and modern both as a composer and a singer and so for this track I wanted to stay true to the original vocal style of the period but instead of singing with a harpsichord or lute accompaniment I harmonised in line with the original.

Flow My Tears

from Guise by Lydia Carter

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I have always found myself drawn to the opposite poles of early and modern both as a composer and a singer and so for this track I wanted to stay true to the original vocal style of the period but instead of singing with a harpsichord or lute accompaniment I harmonised in line with the original.

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Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!
Exiled for ever, let me mourn
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings
There let me live forlorn
Down vain lights, shine you no more
No nights are dark enough for those
That in despair their last fortunes deplore
Light doth but shame disclose
Never may my woes be relieved
Since pity is fled
And tears and sighs and groans my weary days, my weary days
Of all joys have deprived
From the highest spire of contentment
My fortune is thrown
And fear and grief and pain for my deserts, for my deserts
Are my hopes, since hope is gone
Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell
Learn to contemn light
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite
Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell
Learn to contemn light
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite

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from Guise, released January 31, 2021

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