Song for Leonardo

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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?

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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?

for we still have the gifts the Maestro gave us the delicate design of smiles and tears,