Lucio Petroccione, Composer
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    • tear my soul...
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    • Words >
      • the yellow taxi
      • yesterday
      • pink sweater
      • brown meadows
      • snowing in new york
      • thirty years
      • some dogs for me
      • the table
      • disturb
      • travel too
      • every every
      • god
      • home
      • unusual
      • the night before
      • the passing
      • soaring
      • as one
      • hundred times
      • Us
      • a poem
      • fallen
      • dance as she sings
      • tender and sweet
      • the hill
      • the bridge
      • wistful words
      • lay witness
      • family
      • how far can i run
      • with you
      • twenty minutes to the bridge
      • a wine glass of you
      • drowning into you
      • broken
      • still more
      • waiting for you
      • winter calls
      • rainstorm
      • your road
      • rooftops
      • on her way home
      • wait
      • i have you
      • turbulence
      • white
      • orange sky
      • passes
      • and
      • and i miss you
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lay witness

doubtless i have witnessed it
i cannot really tell
i haven't imagined the scene
over and over it plays
like a performance that has worn thin
almost to the very core
i am moved by the pictures of the children
reaching out with their outstretched hands
beckoning
calling
images that suddenly vanish
only white mist remains on the stoop where the old lady sat
did she hear the flash
and see the wind as it burned through her town
no town
remains of a place with just a name
did it bring happiness to those who forged a life from her
the tiny storess with fresh baked goods
and the drunk who knew all for some cigarettes and a drink
continue...
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  • Home
  • Orchestral Works
    • Yellow Winter Orange Sky
    • Stealing Pieces of Time
    • When Whales Walked
    • House by the Sea
    • Blackbirds
    • Kerry's Field
    • Four Panels
    • A Winter's Tale
    • Autumn
    • Kill Devil Hill
    • Sermon on the Mount
  • Chamber Works
    • Ocean Sketches >
      • A Year of Storms
      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
      • Heading Out
      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • You and I
    • The Swan
    • The Summer House
    • Two Sketches
    • Blue Fields
    • Of Younger Days
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Poesia
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Standing Still
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Jagged Memories
    • Children's Lullaby
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
    • An Awkward Man
  • Soundscapes
    • Heartbeat
    • driving home...
    • away from home
    • incredible day
    • without you...
    • gehrig st
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • flying
    • every moment
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • tear my soul...
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
    • Like the Rain
  • Basement
    • Words >
      • the yellow taxi
      • yesterday
      • pink sweater
      • brown meadows
      • snowing in new york
      • thirty years
      • some dogs for me
      • the table
      • disturb
      • travel too
      • every every
      • god
      • home
      • unusual
      • the night before
      • the passing
      • soaring
      • as one
      • hundred times
      • Us
      • a poem
      • fallen
      • dance as she sings
      • tender and sweet
      • the hill
      • the bridge
      • wistful words
      • lay witness
      • family
      • how far can i run
      • with you
      • twenty minutes to the bridge
      • a wine glass of you
      • drowning into you
      • broken
      • still more
      • waiting for you
      • winter calls
      • rainstorm
      • your road
      • rooftops
      • on her way home
      • wait
      • i have you
      • turbulence
      • white
      • orange sky
      • passes
      • and
      • and i miss you
    • Art Gallery
  • Contact Lucio