[Instrumental Intro — felt jazz piano, low cello, upright bass; fragile descending 4-note cello motif] Tears fall from a black swan. Stars keep vigil outside the cave. He wakes into dawn. [Female contralto — fully sung, intimate] Fog slips down the mountains. White clouds, like forgotten ribbons, drift through the morning. Dew trembles on his skin. He touches it. [Music nearly disappears] Salt. Tears. But whose? [Faint 4-note cello motif] He remembers. Once, he was a beautiful black swan, in love with a girl on the other side of the earth. [Upright bass enters; felt piano, sparse brushes] They had no sky in common. Only dreams. [Distant female voice — very soft] seulement en rêve And sometimes, in some impossible alignment, their two worlds opened onto the same place. Then— they could see each other. [Instrumental — cello, upright bass, muted electric guitar, unresolved piano] He remembers the black swan crying into the distance. Each tear falling into the faraway. [Distant female voice — very soft] au loin Until one day, there was an ocean. [Short instrumental rise — cello motif expands, jazz harmony opens] And somewhere beyond all that blue, [Almost bare — lead voice, felt piano, cello] a shore waiting for him. [Distant female voice — very soft] une rive [Long instrumental outro — cello develops 4-note motif; upright bass answers; unresolved felt-piano harmony; natural decay into silence]
