Unreachable (feat. W.H. Auden – Lullaby)

Описание: A sonic reimagining of W.H. Auden’s 1937 existential masterpiece. This interpretation pairs the poem’s raw, mortal honesty with a warm, melodic landscape. The organic tones of acoustic guitar and ethereal woodwind synths breathe new life into the verses, while a modern electronic pulse drives the journey forward.

In this version, Auden’s "Lullaby" becomes a hypnotic mantra—a quiet observation of beauty, transience, and the "mortal world" we inhabit.

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Credits:

Lyrics: W.H. Auden ("Lullaby")

Music & Production: Krzysztof Stano (@stanostudio)

Visuals: https://pixabay.com/videos/ocean-sea-...

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Lullaby

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's carnal ecstasy.

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

W. H. Auden
1907 – 1973