When I half-close my eyes – this is my current old-new song. I composed it when I was suffering from the heat of the sun in the summer before 2000. I sang it and played the accompaniment on an acoustic guitar and recorded it on my first mp3 recorder at the time, just like my previous blues song “Dreamers daily blues”. And now here we have the heat again. And I also used my singing and created a new arrangement of the accompaniment from virtual instruments (see, for example, Kontakt). For the choir, I used Choir 2 from Dreamtonics and the complexity of using Czech was circumvented only by the vocals “u” and “a” through Spanish. I added vocals in harmony to my singing, where I already had to use Czech and long time I took some time to “hammer it to them head” by Asterian and HXVOC, who keep me company most of the time. Here I will give a literal translation from ChatGPT in English. If anyone is interested in the Czech written text, it is on SoundCloud, where there is a recording of me singing with a guitar from before 2000. The link to this guitar recording is on SoundCloud, where I have a recording with a new arrangement, which I am advertising here…
When I half-close my eyes!
It is a hot summer night, the kind that has been in recent years!
Rain does not come to help – it would hardly make it anyway!
So I wait for a cooler morning!
Except for a few stars and the white moon – the sky in black wraps the world!
And it, like a widow without effort – wanders slowly back and forth!
Now a draft chills me again at my temples and down my back!
And I half-close my eyes – for a moment I hold my breath!
I have all the windows wide open and a hot roof above my head!
By half-closing my eyes! Am I wasting light – or darkness?!
I say that the morning will be wiser!
And time deliberately drags – sometimes it does things to spite people!
And whether my head is clever or foolish, from time to time time tricks it!
And I just wring my hands – what bad luck I have again!
And then I just half-close my eyes – for a moment I hold my breath!
That is when I half-close my eyes! And place sinful words on my lips!
To shout – yet I don’t know where? Thanks to dreams and mysteries!
That is when I half-close my eyes! And I wanted a better world so much!
I know my monologue well, I still know it by heart!
And from those distant windows – I see night after night a canvas of lights!
But the moon has slipped away somewhere! And the stars suddenly began to lie to people!
That is why I now have a stronger reason!
To see the world darker in the night than it usually is!
That the morning will be wiser, sleep now hides from me!
One quiet sigh sounded – to a body fallen within four walls!
My eyes are already closed and I have stopped holding my breath!
That is when I half-close my eyes! And place sinful words on my lips!
To shout – yet I don’t know where? Thanks to dreams and mysteries!
That is when I half-close my eyes! And I wanted a better world so much!
I know my monologue well, I still know it by heart!
La, lalala ………