Book of Days

This one is pretty straightforward. It begins with music that sounds a bit like a sunrise, so I chose yellow paper and used very bright colors (my highlighters). I just drew the abstract form of what I thought the music would be like, coming out of a book, since the song mentions a “book of days.” It is a very BIG song in some ways, very much like a firework that just kind of bursts. That’s why I used that sort of shape. There are all sorts of dots (representing tracks) and long wavy lines (representing paths) as well as formless lines that are meant to be reminiscent of dreams coming into reality (drawn in response to the line “My dreams could be tomorrow”). It is all in a book because we write stories as we live.

Book of Days–lyrics

One day, one night, one moment
My dreams could be tomorrow
One step, one fall, one falter
East or west
Over earth or by ocean
One way to be my journey
This way could be my book of days
Ó lá go lá, mo thuras,
An bealach fada romham.
Ó oíche go hoíche, mo thuras,
Na scéalta nach mbeidh a choích’.
(In Irish Gaelic, this is translated as:
From day to day, my journey,
The long pilgrimage before me.
From night to night, my journey,
The stories that will never be again)
No day, no night, no moment
Can hold me back from trying
I’ll flag, I’ll fall, I’ll falter
I’ll find my day may be far and away
Far and away
One day, one night, one moment
With a dream to be leaving
One step, one fall, one falter
And a new earth across a wide ocean
This way became my journey
This day ends together, far and away
This day ends together, far and away
Far and away