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Suddenly-its-evening

Book and Lyrics: Joachim Matschoss
Music: Ross Brooks & Yolette Stewart (
CD available)

I AM NOT STRONG (Brooks/Matschoss)

... AND SUDDENLY ITīS EVENING (3f + chorus)

Two girls, growing up. Both in conflict with their parents, teased and bullied by their peers. They rely on each other to survive and discover that what makes them strong is their love for each other.

Style: Multiple timeframes and non-naturalistic imagery

A place at the fringes of a large city.
A girl sings:
Now it is mid-february again
and we will choose a morning of cool change
to move up the river
to find a secret spring.

Upriver, beyond suburban streets
plastic bottles like bloated fish
shopping trolleys underneath the water
but we walk on.

Dark-blue streams we travel
to keep us from our fears
ice-cold streams we travel
to help us through the years

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