Occasionally I will write a song that is a story - not about anything true but perhaps conveying something someone will recognize. That is the case in the song Amber Lee.
This song was born on the night before Valentine’s Day several years ago, when I was sewing bead eyes on some little lizards I had made, from rainbow colored fleece, to be Valentine’s Day presents for my kids. As it happened, the beads were amber. So the line came up, with its tune: Amber Lee has amber eyes. The rest of the words came, in bike rides over subsequent weeks, to fill in the tune. No real person behind this - just a story that arose from lizard eyes:
Amber Lee
has amber eyes
shining out like some bright prize
If you want to understand, you must
be wise
Amber Lee,
what satisfies you?
Amber Lee
has honey hair
shot with gold like some deep prayer
if you want to go within, you must
be there
Amber Lee,
what makes you care?
Amber Lee
has limbs of fire
laced throughout with swift desire
all the worlds that bend to her
she could acquire
Amber Lee,
what takes you higher?
©Wendy Mulhern
©Wendy Mulhern
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