The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The lyrics to this song is an abridged version of T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", one of my favorite poems. I wrote the music and the arranged the lyrics.

Lyrics:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening's against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let's make our visit.

For I have known them all already, known them all;
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
So how should I presume?

And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
time to murder and create,
time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think they will sing to me.
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all;
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
So how should I begin?

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• T.S Eliot
• lovesong of j alfred

[brbrunetta]

After many years reading and watching performances of this poem...

I find this novel and reamarckable interpretation of T. S.

That was a great surprise!

congratulations and keep on!

[CallaSmith]

@brbrunetta Thank you!

[DRDFOX]

Love it. The Crash Test Dummies created their own interpretation of this song in the 90s song Afternoons and Coffee spoons, which I liked, but this is a direct application of the poem to song and is is truly lovely.

[BLouise22]

You have a lovely voice. I actually just got finished listening to Eliot reading it for a hw assignment and your song makes it seem much less creepy. :)

[AntonioRamir3z]

I never thanked you for putting this video up back in june. I hope you still making good music and cant wait to see new stuff

[hadyn42]

This is just fantastic. Thank you.

[ravidre]

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo

[ravidre]

mmm i would

[SOUTHPAW4777]

When you sing the poem, it sounds so nice.. Really good voice!

[SECZEPHYRUS]

Absolutely beautiful!