piano

Her Song

Posted by sara-garrard

funny thing
the life we share
I hold your hand as if I never let go
we were young
we were child-kings in our kingdom
our treasure gold in the fields and our crowns of flowers from the hedgerows

am I the girl
who once was your dazzling prize?
winter frosty bright, you had to shade your eyes
now we smile over coffee at breakfast 

If someone told you years ago,
would you ever believe it?
if I had known
the things I know today
that we’d make it safe
and walking the stair
past steps that weren’t there
we’d make it safe home 

memory shakes me
I let you down
and woven wreaths like vows we made unravelled
we were too weak
too weak to stop what had started
I cursed them, ‘she is the one that I love, however we be parted’ 

we come home
unpack our things from the grocery store
blanket forts sitting on the floor
you are my fortress
and my airfield
I will go
and come back home

And all that happened years ago
with time and grace we can grieve it and let it go
the colours change but this I know today
I love you, we’re safe
I love you, we’re safe
I love you, we’re safe
I love you, we’re safe
we’re home

Posted by sara-garrard

Dear everyone,

This little 30-track-album (they’re short pieces though!) is now available on bandcamp – the fruit of my PIANOWRIMO efforts.  

The styles vary from Baroque to Romantic flavoured with nods to favourite vgm soundtracks and more recent composers. In another sense they are all very ‘me’ in one way or another; by writing a lot this quickly it really had to be my own natural style, and that was very nice for me to work on!  Anyway, some people have asked me about bandcamping this up and I’m glad to have finally done so.  Happy early Christmas!  (Hey, maybe this could be a gift for a piano-friendly friend? xD)

The price is pay what you want, so you can download the whole set for anything from free!

ETA: LINK to the Bandcamp page (you can click on the player buuut possibly not on mobile!)

Posted by sara-garrard

I haven’t really decided how often / how many piano pieces I will put up on bandcamp – I’d like to have sheet music to go with them, but you can only do that as an extra with an album….

so sometime I may make an album or three of piano music …

anyway 🙂  This is a standalone.  This is that strange meditative piece from last year – now recorded on an actual piano <3  And now with sheet music available, as I say!