(« Effect of Butterfly » by Anastasiya Markovich)
The third part of « The Idler » is entitled « Upward. »
The idea behind the movement is quite simple : once the necessity of evolution has been recognized and accepted, there’s only one way to go and its up.
To convey the feeling of somebody who is reinventing themselves, the music reintroduces some of the themes already presented earlier in the suite, but gives them new forms or turns them completely inside out.
There are no vocals in his section. Here's the associated poetry :
I only have myself to blame
As the mirror reflects my shame
I've seen the past and it was lame
Yet it defined a better aim
Walked on and on along this route
I know the place inside and out
So long a time spent in circles
I know by heart all the cycles
Exhausted of repetition
I'm ready for evolution
I recognize elevation
Essential to perennation
Pick me the flower yet ungrown
Map me the location unknown
Tell me the joke that's not absurd
Build me the floor undiscovered
Lead me up steps I never took
Fry me the fish I'll never hook
Reveal the cards as yet undealt
Evoke the sentiment unfelt
Write me the story yet untold
Warp me in time yet to unfold
Push me further than my intent
Touch me farther than my extent
Sanctify sinner yet absolved
Ask me the riddle left unsolved
Draw me the shadow of a doubt
Situate me outside of out
Tailor the skin that's yet unshed
Summon the spirit yet undead
Revive the man who never died
Mix me the color never eyed
Paint me the canvas yet unframed
Attain the goal yet to be aimed
Grant me the reward yet unearned
Teach me the lesson yet unlearned
Upward bent and forward headed
Purposeful until upgraded
Unending magic carpet ride
On winds of change unfazed I glide
And here’s what it sounds like when we perform it. Again, the live version is very different from the working version :
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