Leonardo
Davinci has been a personal hero of mine for many years. After seeing a public
television presentation on the life of Leonardo and reading the book, "The
sublimation's of Leonardo Davinci" it struck me how much the creation of his
art and his inventions were based on the exercise of his own free will. At a time when
many of his studies in anatomy and other scientific endeavors were considered heresy
punishable by death he defied convention in the search for greater truth.
Leonardo was an
extremely complex man with a duality in his nature that allowed him to create works of art
of surpassing beauty as well as mechanisms of mass destruction. He strove to understand
both life and death and the nature of the human soul. It is evident that much of his work
in anatomy was for the express purpose of finding the physical location of the soul within
the human body. At the same time that he sought enlightenment he struggled with his fear
of the darker side of human nature and death itself. It was his ultimate humanity and
courage in the quest for the meaning of life that inspired me to write this
song.
Song for
Leonardo
When Leonardo walked through his vineyard, the setting sun
cast a red light on the hill,
The
maestro walked in all his sublimations, the product of his own free will,
the
product of his own free will, and in the end
could
he feel the evening's coming chill? could he feel the evening's coming chill?
Chorus
Ave
Leonardo, Ave Leonardo, Ave Leonardo,
Is
this world more than what it seems ? In the end is it really just a dream?
And
in the end is it more than just a dream? is it more than just a dream?
And
did he turn his eye to inner landscapes that no one else but he could have perceived?
did
he turn his eye to inner clockworks with a faith that even priests could not conceive?
a
faith that even priests could not believe, And in the end, in the end, did he believe?
In the end did he
believe?
Chorus
Now the only way
that he can teach us is fragile bridge that reaches through the years,
for
we still have the gifts the Maestro gave us the delicate design of smiles and tears,
the delicate
design of wheels & gears in the end, in the end did he show no fear?
