Story Behind The Song

Washington, D.C. area composer Jennifer Cutting was asked to contribute a track to the Hungry for Music charity's holiday compilation CD. and surprised everyone with this decidedly dark take on holiday music. She describes this song as "a little poison p

Song Description

British novelist and poet Emily Brontë's ?Fall, Leaves, Fall? is a celebration of winter's, darkness, death and decay, and a hymn to the bleak beauty in the baring of the trees. Set to original music by Jennifer Cutting, WAMA?s 2004 Songwriter of the Year

Lyrics

CHORUS:

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
"Fall the leaves and flowers away
Lengthen night and shorten day"

Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree,

CHORUS 2X

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow

CHORUS 2X

I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day

CHORUS 2X

Repeat & Fade chanting: ?Fall the leaves and flowers away; Lengthen night & shorten day?

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Anthony Hendriks	My Top Songs	2/8/2008