Lyrics Your Day - Preludes Original Cast

How was your day?
My day?
Did you get any writing done?
Writing?
Writing
No
Describe your day
Describe my day
My day...
My day began with waking I suppose
I don′t remember it clearly the moment I woke up my memory is vague
I know I lay in bed staring at Natalya in the beginning sunlight
And then I remember waking again and she was gone
She snuck out she sometimes does that lets me sleep
And that was the first hour
And then I lay there for an hour doing nothing
Stretching my muscles staring at the ceiling staring at the day
And that was the second hour
Then I went to the kitchen we have Bialetti
It's a... It′s percolator I guess? It makes espresso,
The water is stored in a little tank below and it boils and it
Goes up through the coffee grounds and above then there is coffee
I had to clean it out the day before the coffee uh collecrs into a
Little patty which I threw out I rinsed it all with warm water,
I filled it with cold water,
I placed the coffee in and patted it down very
Tenderly and delicately so the coffee wouldn't spill over
And I spent so much time on this, on being careful and clean
And I think I put on music maybe a Beethoven
Record... or Gordon Lightfoot! First it was Gordon Lightfoot!
My mother used to listen to him,
I know he's not cool but he brings back a fond feeling and I
Waited for the coffee, and I made an egg! In a cast iron pan!
And I grated cheese over it with a new cheese
Grater, salt, pepper, a piece of toast... butter
And that was the third hour
And then I lay down in bed again
And that was the fourth hour
And the I lay down in bed again
And that was the fifth hour
Then I decided to start, to start my day, really start
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Become presentable, able to accomplish things,
And I started with a toilet to wash
And I think I stopped at the chessboard
Stopped at the queens knight
He had no where to go
And that was the sixth hour
Then I went to the toilet and I brushed my teeth,
I stepped into the shower, I kept the water a bit cool
Afterward I trimmed my beard,
And the hairs get everywhere so it took a while to clean that up
We don′t have servants, we′re not rich, y'know, money is a worry
And that was the seventh hour
So It′s three O' clock now, schools getting out,
I haven′t really eaten lunch, I've been inside all day,
The windows are open but the air is still
Different inside and it′s bright outside there
I feel itchy and clammy, cooped up
And I think, how good it would be to go out, how good to go,
Walk in the park, how good to just go anywhere, see children,
Married couples, old men, dogs, squirrels and birds, and trees
And that was the eigth hour
And, And I know if I could wrote three short piano pieces I could get
A payment, and that would help,
And I think-I think that some of thise activities mostly went on for
A bit more longer so really we're at
The ninth hour, and that was the ninth hour
And I read a book! I think, or I read a little bit of a few books,
Books I really love and I stared at the shelf for a while andI tried
To find ones I'd forgotten about and I
Looked at a poem and I sat at the piano
And I played a Bach 2-part invention, F Minor
Though not very well
I practiced the scales at the end of it, tried to get it up to speed
And then I was so tired
And that was the tenth hour
And then I layed down in bed again
And that was the eleventh hour- Oh! Oh! And all day too, all day,
I was reading letters, little notes that came in from eh,
Booking agents, touring managers and uh,
A concert in Lisbon or Helsinki,
And I read the news, and various journals, and I tried to keep up
And I wrote a few letters back,
Threw many others away, this I did all throughout the day
So many minutes were spent with this, spent with on other people,
Obligation, a prompt reply, a professional, and in control,
A sane way of doing things,
So many minutes on these worthless things!
So now we are at the...
Twelve hour?
Must be
That was the twelfth hour
And then Natalya came home
And I left
And came here
And that was the thirteenth hour
And this is the fourteenth hour, and then I′ll go home,
In the fifteenth hour,
I′ll talk to Natalya for a bit, find out about her day
And that will be the sixteenth hour
And the I will go to sleep
For eight hours
And those hours are easy