Somewhere In Time

Victory

This was a song that I wrote or came to me that week in June of 2002 when Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home. After I heard the news and putting my then ten year old son to bed that night I couldn't help but feel such sorrow for her family especially her dear mother! My heart sank and I spent many hours over then next couple of days praying for her and her family. This continued over the course of that year as so many in our community followed the story so closely. That night I sat down at my keyboard and this was the results throughout that night and in to the next couple of days. Music and words are the pen to my heart. I write how I feel  in song and script. I knew the minute I began this song the name would be, "Little Girl Lost'. This is to you Elizabeth! I am grateful for your strength and faith. You are an example to all!

I hope that you will enjoy this first recording of this song  over thirteen years ago in it's most prehistoric stages. Thank you for listening and sharing.

"Music by Sheri Dye. © 2010. All rights reserved. Copying by any method or means without permission prohibited."
~Sheri

Little Girl Lost

I wrote this song back in 1988 after I had gone through one of the most difficult events in my life. II came to me and I would have to play it over and over on the piano to keep it fresh in my memory just like all my other songs of that time. It wasn't until the early 2000's that I purchased a digital piano and began having the ability to record all the songs I had composed over my life. This song was very much inspired by one event and two people. A most special friend who kept me out of trouble and my Grandfather who would ask me to play it over and over for him. He would sit on the couch with his eyes closed and then tell me after that it made him feel like he was sitting by a stream up in the woods with the trees all around him. I named it "If I Could Fly" because it always reminded me of those videos they used to play where they showed a glider attached to a small plane and they would get it high enough in the sky and then detach it. I loved the motion of the glider flying over the mountains and country side with complete silence and almost weightless. They would then descend down to a landing strip and things would get a little bumpy right before they came to their final stop. I loved how they would open the glider to get out and the sound was back and all the activity around them was to be heard. This is so symbolic to me of how I felt in my life back then. So free of things that could have destroyed my life for good. So here's to Overcoming, my family, friends and my dear sweet Grandpa. I love you all! Thank you!
~Sheri

I hope that you will enjoy this first recording of this song over thirteen years ago in it's most prehistoric stages. Thank you for listening and sharing.

"Music by Sheri Dye. © 2010. All rights reserved. Copying by any method or means without permission prohibited."
~Sheri


If I Could Fly

I wrote this song as it came to me after a very special friend   I adored passed away in 2006. He had gone through many difficult events in since the passing of his sweet wife and best friend. This song was very much inspired by this one event but I had lost one of my close friends not even a month prior to his death.  It was almost too much to bear and I myself was faced with some difficult health challenges that would render me unable to attend either of their services. The day of his service my family would go and as I stayed behind would hobble out to play my last prayer and Eulogy to my friend and honor his life. It was a most beautiful event for me. I called this "Glimmers of Hope" as it was totally what I had prayed for him daily. I have several digital recordings of this but this past month as I visited the home of my parents I got to play this on "My Voice" being the Piano I started my life on. That old Baby Grand! It truly is where it all began.
~Sheri

I hope that you will enjoy this first recording of this song over thirteen years ago in it's most prehistoric stages. Thank you for listening and sharing.

"Music by Sheri Dye. © 2010. All rights reserved. Copying by any method or means without permission prohibited."
~Sheri


Glimmers Of Hope

A Soul's respite from the darkness comes with the Dawn of Spring.

AprilSunrise

"Labyrinth" is based on Passacaglia in D minor by Christian Friedrich Witt (1838-1882), formerly attributed to J.S. Bach, BWH Anh. 182.

The walls of time
The shadows of my mind
There's no place to hide
From the demons inside
A swirling maze
I am afraid
I'm crumbling from within
Will this be the end?

My fingers turn cold
I stumble down this twisted road
The future unclear
It's the labyrinth I fear

Find me
Save me
I can't stay
Lift me
Wake me
Light my way

Heal me
Cure me
Set me free

Labyrinth

"Aria (Cantilena)" is from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). The original version of this features the cellos playing pizzicato, and it moves at pretty quick pace. I decided to slow it down a bit by giving the cello a deep and melodic presence and adding in some electronic elements. My track features Nicole Pinnell on the cello and she did a wonderful job. This is a vocalise, which means the entire song is sung on a vowel with no lyrics. I first heard this on Sissel's album Into Paradise and thought it had such a lovely melody. Here is a video of her singing it.

Aria (Cantilena)

"Hymn to the Forest is based on Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 Allegretto by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Sounds from the shadows faintly approaching
Beckon my senses pulling me in
Calling my soul to join with it's forces
Music will take me into the night
Slowing my step as voices surround me
Drowning my senses, leading me on
Now I can feel it softly embracing
Finding it's way to my beating heart
I cannot help but hearken to music
Join with this serenade of the night
I cannot help but hearken to music
Join with this serenade of the night

I will sing with your melody
Blend with the chorus
Lift up your voices
Hymn to the forest
Honoring all that's before us
Praising the source of goodness and light
Hymn to the forest
Honoring all that's before us
Praising the source of goodness and light

Feel it
piercing through darkness
chanting it's prayer to heaven in gratitude
I can endure through all of your dark illusions
Music has come to take me home.
I can endure through all of your dark illusions
Music has come to take me home.

Validus (powerful)
Acceptus (welcome)
Et mirus (and wonderful)
Amplexus (embrace)
In vieta (unconquered)
Et liber (and free)
Nec metu (without fear)
Resurgam (I shall arise)

Validus (powerful)
Acceptus (welcome)
Et mirus (and wonderful)
Amplexus (embrace)
In vieta (unconquered)
Et liber (and free)
Et nec metu (and without fear)

(repeats)

Victory

Robert Pemberton

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