Lost In Vienna

from Lost In Vienna by Lilycrush

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Friedhof is the German word for cemetery.
1938 is a reference to the events of Kristallnacht.

lyrics

Where have I been?
Well, I could ask you
Where have you been?
Sitting here now
With your fat Sachertorte and that grin.
I know I was supposed to meet you at Stephansplatz
Instead, as you've no doubt surmised
I got lost in Vienna.

Earlier I had been inside the cathedral
Where Mozart was married and,
Years later, carried from
To St Marx, where you can visit his marker but not his grave
It's true, he too was lost in Vienna.

I went to the Friedhof to see
The great composers' graves
Beethoven, Schubert and yes, Salieri
They rest by the main gate but I had got turned round coming in
So I entered the wrong gate
That's me, still lost in Vienna.

The section I walked through was scattered
With gravestones that had been shattered
They had lain that way since 1938
And they stay that way now
When there are no descendants to tend them.
Too much, so much lost in Vienna.

Once I found my way back to town,
I saw Figarohaus
Where Mozart wrote -- oh, yes, I see that you know.
I must have spent over an hour
Looking at coats and Klaviers and clocks
As easy as falling in love
To get lost in Vienna.

By then it was dark
And I finally got back to Stephansplatz
Remembering how the cathedral roof in the day
Looked like the November leaves in the Friedhof
Gold and brown and green and even gray.

So where were you?
Even Mozart had an excuse.
He, like me, was hopelessly, artlessly, utterly, perfectly finally
Lost in Vienna.

credits

from Lost In Vienna, released August 30, 2021
Acoustic guitar by Katie Marie
Cello by Lindsey Virell
Vocals by Suki

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Singer-songwriter. Multi-instrumentalist. Conservatory survivor. Musician.

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