✍🏻 ADDITIONAL LYRICS & COMPOSITION BY EME LATINA (2026) 📝 POEM USED: "I felt a funeral, in my brain" by EMILY DICKENSON (1891) 🔗 poetryfoundation.org/poems/45706/i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain-340 ------------- ABOUT: ------------- This is one of my favorite poems, and one that is felt deeply —almost as if I wrote it myself. In many ways, it reminds me of my own piece, “Funeral For Me,” which explores similar themes. I understand the words more than I sometimes wish I did, but there’s a certain comfort in familiar sadness. I added my own lyrics to complete my interpretation and vision of the piece. Enjoy the arrangement! -------------------------------------------------- SSC8 Poetry Challenge: Emily Dickinson -------------------------------------------------- • Choose any Emily Dickinson poem that is in the public domain • Turn it into a song, keeping the original spirit intact • Light adaptations are allowed, like repeating lines, making a chorus, rearranging lines, or making small phrasing tweaks • Keep it 2:00 to 5:00 minutes and PG-13 ------------- LYRICS: ------------- [intro] I felt a Funeral (in my Brain) [verse] I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through... [verse 2] And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum Kept beating - beating - till I thought My mind was going numb (My mind was going numb) (My mind was going numb) [buildup] [Chorus - by Eme] And I knew it then… (I knew it then) Soft as it settles in And I knew it then… (I knew it then) Nothing left to defend The end didn’t come to me— I walked into the end [verse 3] And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space began to toll... [Bridge] As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race, Wrecked, solitary, here... [interlude] [instrumental] [Pre- Chorus - by Eme] I knew it then, I knew it then… No need to begin again I knew it then [Reprised Chorus - by Eme] (I knew it then) Soft as it settles in I knew it then… Nothing left to defend The end didn’t come to me— I walked into the end [Outro] And then a Plank in Reason (broke) And I dropped down, (and down) And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing... then. And Finished knowing... then. (I walked into the end) ((I walked into the end))
