Name: A Man Young and Old - Part I - First Love
Channel: Matt Montgomery | W.B. Yeats
Description: "A Man Young and Old - Part I - First Love" is a song by Matthew Montgomery. Lyrics by W.B. Yeats, music by me. I've been lacking in lyrical inspiration lately, but not musical inspiration. This is the result.

A Man Young and Old - Part I - First Love

Matthew Montgomery

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Lyrics by W.B. Yeats, music by me. I've been lacking in lyrical inspiration lately, but not musical inspiration. This is the result.

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Matthew Montgomery

I've been into music for as long as I remember -- for the first twelve years of my life, I stuck mostly to classical and a little jazz my parents listened to. I'm 19 now, and I listen to a little bit of everything, except for silence.

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Genre

Alternative • Indie

Charts

Peak #863

Peak in subgenre #74

Author

Matt Montgomery | W.B. Yeats

Rights

2004

Uploaded

September 12, 2004

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MP3

MP3 1.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Lyrics

Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty’s murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
Until I thought her body bore
A heart of flesh and blood.
But since I laid a hand thereon
And found a heart of stone
I have attempted many things
And not a thing is done,
For every hand is lunatic
That travels on the moon.
She smiled and that transfigured me
And left me but a lout,
Maundering here, and maundering there,
Emptier of thought
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars
When the moon sails out.

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