Copyright 2010 - Donya Lane & Ed McNamee

Something in the Light

LISA

We still grow from deep inside.

Who’ll be here to mark these changes?

When all we have we have to hide.

Of course it’s best that he not know.

Though, I think of ways

to share the truth with him,

but only dare, at this time, when the light

might carry me there.

LEONARDO

This choice is cursed:

return the work,

and still our sin...

just serves to make it worse.

For far from done, oh Lisa,

I have yet to begin.

LISA

Sin can not be brushed away.

For far from done, oh Leo,

I have yet to begin.

LEONARDO

How can I paint your wedding rings?

I must show what’s true inside you,

and know which songs a caged bird sings.

LEONARDO

Yet, high above

this twisted fate,

I’ll paint the view

where raging rivers

are just mist in the air,

at this time, when the light

might carry you there.

And should you escape these bars…

we’ll see something

in the light.

Who knew at first

our greatest work

still lay within?

And so we’ll stay immersed

for far from done,

oh Lisa, I have yet to begin.

LISA

I have dreamt of open skies…

where raging rivers

are just mist in the air.

And should you someday

know this child was ours…

we’ll see something

in the light.

Who knew at first

our greatest work

still lay within?

And so we’ll stay immersed

for far from done,

Oh Leo, I have yet to begin.

We still grow from deep inside.

As twilight falls on her lonely vigil,

Lisa contemplates sharing her greatest secret with Leonardo:

that she is with child. 

All the while, Leonardo has been studying her from afar,

sketching in the columns that now confine her, in…

Vocals:  Lewis Cleale and Megan McGinnis

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