Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name - Edmund Spenser
Soft rock with disco-soul influences, electric bass with melodic counterpoint leading the rhythm, clean electric guitars with muted strumming, Fender Rhodes electric piano with warm sustain, brass section with trumpet and trombone stabs, lush string ensemble with sweeping legato lines, steady hi-hat-driven drums with syncopated groove, handclaps accenting the backbeat, tambourine shimmer, subtle conga and cowbell layer, male lead vocal in bright mid-register, smooth and affectionate tone, occasional falsetto emphasis, layered harmony vocals in call-and-response structure, stereo-panned choral backing with multitrack doubling, analog reverb for warmth, light phasing on background vocals, rounded mix emphasizing melodic bass and vocal interplay, overall joyful and affectionate atmosphere
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name - Edmund Spenser
Soft rock with disco-soul influences, electric bass with melodic counterpoint leading the rhythm, clean electric guitars with muted strumming, Fender Rhodes electric piano with warm sustain, brass section with trumpet and trombone stabs, lush string ensemble with sweeping legato lines, steady hi-hat-driven drums with syncopated groove, handclaps accenting the backbeat, tambourine shimmer, subtle conga and cowbell layer, male lead vocal in bright mid-register, smooth and affectionate tone, occasional falsetto emphasis, layered harmony vocals in call-and-response structure, stereo-panned choral backing with multitrack doubling, analog reverb for warmth, light phasing on background vocals, rounded mix emphasizing melodic bass and vocal interplay, overall joyful and affectionate atmosphere
Lyrics
Intro
Instrumental interlude
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Bridge
Pre Chorus
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
Bridge
Instrumental interlude
Chorus
"Not so," - quod I - "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
Bridge
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Bridge
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Instrumental interlude
End