Dissolved SSA - Digital Sheet Music

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I composed Dissolved over the stiflingly hot and humid Sydney summer of 2018-2019. It’s all about finding relief from the heat by plunging your body into the sea at twilight. I went with some friends to Sydney’s Coogee Beach one late afternoon, just as the sun was setting. We parked in a side street and walked barefoot across the road, still warm from a full day of blazing sunlight, over the prickly grass, down the concrete steps onto the soft sand and into the ocean. The feeling of being cleansed by this salt water was so strong, I felt compelled to write a song about it.

Sally Whitwell

Long shadows stretch into still summer nights

The atmosphere lays heavy, liquefied

Warmth rising from the asphalt, once alight

From the sun, now disappearing 

Drawn to dark water, we become amphibian 

Bare toes swallowed by waves on wet sand

Deionisation, we hold it in our hands

And the fever’s disappearing

We are dissolved

The water absolving us

We are evolving

On the ever revolving earth

Ever evolving, revolving, dissolving

Water abating and we’re dissipating

As the world turns and our hearts burn

With love