[Soprano Aria] [Andante sostenuto – harp glissando, tremolo violins begin softly, warm strings swell with each line] [sung] Oh time, you silent river wide, You carry all I’ve loved away… The morning light I once held tight Now fades into a silver grey. [Low piano arpeggios enter, cello harmonies rise beneath vocal line] Each heartbeat marks your drifting course, No hand can hold, no voice can stay— You steal the youth from every face, And still we walk your weary way. [Orchestral swell – violins lift, winds sigh gently] I watched the springtime bloom and fall, The golden leaves, they whispered low… A thousand days, I cannot name, Have passed me by like melting snow. [Tempo lingers – harp and horn echo faint motifs from earlier lines] I was a girl with skies in mind, Now stars are dim, my hair grown pale— Yet in the hush, I hear the chime Of memories the years unveil. [Pianissimo – horns echo distantly, strings shimmer with harmonic overtones] [softly, with sorrow] Am I a ghost within my life? A shadow cast from days gone by? Each breath I take feels less my own— I'm lost in time, and don’t know why. [Crescendo builds slowly – tremolo rises in strings, horns swell] [rising in quiet hope] But if I’m lost, then so are you, For none may stand where time won’t tread. We’re threads within a tapestry, All stitched by moments long since fled. [Orchestra rises to climax – forte, full ensemble] [climactic] Oh time! You cruel and wondrous tide, I weep, I love, I yield, I climb… And though I vanish with the dusk, My soul will sing— Though lost in time. [Final chord sustains – harp and violins shimmer, gentle decrescendo to silence]
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