2004

Accomplice

Text by Dana Gioia
"Accomplice" is a song for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano by composer Stefanie de Kenessey. The song sets a poem by Dana Gioia and is currently unpublished. Please contact the composer for more information.

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Accomplice
by Dana Gioia

In dusty fields I harvested the vine
And sweated at the lever as the grapes were pressed.
My aching hands still clutched their vagrant wages,
Sleeping in the cold barracks of the dispossessed.

But now at dawn, beyond the reach of reason,
I wake in the chateau between your tangled sheets.
My sunburnt arm across your naked shoulder,
The mute accomplice of our mutual defeat.