Doyle:
“An Apparition” is a simple song about living a simple life. I started writing it in 2019, so it predates the pandemic, but a song about the contentment found in a sheer lack of events surely makes it timely in a way that I couldn’t have imagined. As ‘normal life’ starts to crank back into g...
An apparition
An alignment of the mind
In a conflation of two places at a time
Wherein lies a confluence of sound and temperature
A sense and scent that pulls you back to where
The world creaked by without event
And where what fell into the window of your view
However brief, was all that was happening to you
No other truth
Soap operas on high road theatres
The dance of seasons as they alter
A tumble dryer rumbling
And thеn that moment passed, as a moment’s won't to do
But by that logic, thеre will be another soon
Wherein blooms
A different set of circumstances
New seasons in different dances
An apparition once again
William Doyle released An Apparition (Without Event) on Thu Oct 28 2021.