Name: Turns Toward Dawn
Duration: P00H04M29S
Description: This song is more than just another romantic ballad in a musical. It's a song of new beginnings, offering a sense of hope badly needed at this time in our history. "Turns Toward Dawn" from the new musical EDEN IN BABYLON © 2010-2021 by Andrew Michael Pope.

Turns Toward Dawn

from Eden in Babylon Demo by Andy Pope

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This song is more than just another romantic ballad in a musical. It's a song of new beginnings, offering a sense of hope badly needed at this time in our history. "Turns Toward Dawn" from the new musical EDEN IN BABYLON © 2010-2021 by Andrew Michael Pope.

lyrics

WINSTON: (sings)
For all of my vision,
There have been sights my eyes could not see.
I've dreamed them at nighttime
Or in a morning reverie.

I've seen them in daydreams,
and when my trembling hands would draw near.
Those sights were like mirages,
Leaving my eyes so full of fear.

But all of those visions
Never came close to looking like you.
It scares me to imagine
All of what you and I could do.

TAURA:
And it scares me to ponder
All the places we might go,
All the worlds we might wander.
It scares me to know
That in you is reflected
All the wishes I have hidden from,
The dreams I've neglected
Start to show.

WINSTON:
And every time I hold you,
It is like holding on to a dream.
I wait for you to vanish
Like something else not so supreme.

I wait for it to finish,
And find instead it's barely begun.
I come ready for darkness
And face instead the rising sun.

TAURA:
And instead of an ending,
A beginning comes along.
As I turn toward the sundown,
It Turns Toward Dawn.

BOTH:
And the whole world is spinning
Like a top that twirls, the world is spun
And woven into the words we've sung.

BOTH:
And the words that are burning
In our hearts will ride upon
The same tide that is turning,
It Turns Toward Dawn:
T'ward a new exploration
Of unchartered new dimensions of the heart,
Let us start to travel on . . .

And on we will travel,
Though winter freezes,
Though summer burns.
We met first in the darkness.
Until we saw that darkness Turns Toward Dawn.

© 2018-2021 by Andy Pope. All Rights Reserved.

credits

from Eden in Babylon Demo, released September 8, 2021
Cooper Knutson & Keva Shull on vocals, Andy Pope on piano, sound design by Liam Robert Marchant.

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Andy Pope

I was born at 11:30 on a Friday night, when all across America, people were partying, and surely there was a standing ovation taking place at some Performing Arts venue, somewhere. With all those bizarre influences acting upon me at the moment of my birth, you'd think people would cut me some slack concerning my wild and oft-erratic personality. ... more