Name: Madame Bovary
Duration: P00H04M53S
Description: I composed this tune many years ago, but the lyrics were inspired in 2009 while reading Flaubert's novel.

Madame Bovary

from Secrets by Geoff Mather

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I composed this tune many years ago, but the lyrics were inspired in 2009 while reading Flaubert's novel.

lyrics

Bright-eyed and bold
With dreams that unfold
Artless, naïve and hopeful
A certain unease, that shifts with the breeze
Afflicts you
You think that bliss
Doesn’t come with just a kiss
But to other lands you fly
In your mind, unsatisfied
Such discontentment inside
Wishing….

Wishing for walks, for long midnight talks
The hearth of a snowbound cabin
Mysterious scenes from a cinema screen
Fill your mind
If I could make all your dreams come true
And take you to Heaven – I would
You’d still be wishing for more
Always unsettled, unsure
Wishing… wishing…

Wishing for grace, a moonlit embrace
Tears bathing hands at parting
A silk-curtained room, and the finest perfumes
Are your due
When you survey your reality
It makes you turn away, away
You grow detached day by day
Wishing for what - you can’t say

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from Secrets, released October 16, 2013

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Geoff Mather Sandbach, UK

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Secrets

Oct 2013
Back in Time

Jun 2011
Drifter

May 2013
Outside

May 2013

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