SCP #181: No Run To Save The Varnish

Composed & performed 8th July 2017. Composed by Erica Bramham as part of the Song-Chain Project. The Song-Chain Project is a year-long creative mission that commences January 9 2017 and will run until January 9 2018. Each day for 365 days a new piece of music will be written, recorded and posted online, and the process documented. For more information visit ericabramham.com/songchain-project

I can't quite believe it, but I have made it to the end of six months.  I should write a proper update about how I'm feeling, but for now here's a song.  My starting theme was slow, and branches of a mind map led me to the lyrics.  The melody is mostly improvised save for a little hook, and a few questionable notes snuck their way in and will need to be plucked out when I finally get time to revisit all these songs and do something exciting with them.  What that something might be, I have no idea yet.

You spoon me into your coffee
and I dissolve.
Your elbow on the wonky table
and I am spilled all over the cloth
ticking off each embroidered flower as I spread.
There is no run to save the varnish
no race to mop me up
so I dry into the stitches.