2022 | 4 minutes

Instrumentation

Mezzo-soprano (Bb3-G5)
Piano

Composer's Note

"Eyes of Gold" is an aria written as a teaser for a operatic monodrama featuring a woman on a search for something she has lost only to have to question whether it ever existed in the first place.

Text

by Jonathan D. Kroeger

O, my love, my king, my dear
My journey's near its close.
Life and death have no power here:
Time itself now wanes and slows.
Give me one more whisper for my heart to hold.
One more grasp from your hand, so cold.
One more moment of those nights untold.
One more glance from your eyes of gold.
Now's the time, just open your eyes.
Death is only a deep sleep's guise.
Our moments pass by quickly now.
There's not much time that our gods allow.
Just give me one more whisper for my heart to hold.
One more grasp from your hand, so cold.
One more moment of those nights untold.
One more glance from your eyes of gold.