Rose Street Music: Irina Rivkin music

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I wrote this song when I was ovewhelmed, wishing I could create more hours in a day, or clone myself to get everything done.
Originally, I arranged the song for an acappella group (as it is in the recording), but now perform it solo, singing all the parts live and layering them through live-looping

Hold the Moment © 2000 Irina Rivkin

I dreamed I went down to the river
it was hot and I needed a swim
but the once rushing currents were streams now
and I had nowhere to jump in
The next day I came back to wade there
now even the streams had run dry
so I dug through the sand to find water
but it only would flow from my eyes

moments are minutes are hours are days
are weeks are years are decades
seconds and seasons get blurred in a haze
climbing up through the down sliding sand

Oh, to hold the moment in my arms
let it seep through my skin, heal what is harmed

but instead the moment slips through my fingers
like a river that's no longer calm
I say "I think I've almost found it!"
As I search the cracks of my palm

moments are minutes are hours are days . . .
oh to hold . . . .

I dreamed I went down to the river
But what I found was a riverbed dry
so I dug through the sand to find water
but it only would flow from my eyes

moments are minutes . . .
oh to hold the moment . . .
Blood rushing through my veins can't make more hours in day…
Can’t make more hours…
Oh to Hold the Moment