Time Waits for No Man

by Li/ Lisa E. Harris

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Time Waits for No Man is one of the first original songs that Lisa E. wrote for herself to sing. The song evokes long distance travel and inner contemplation, which could be due to the fact that Lisa E. wrote this song in her early twenties, post graduate school, at a time when she was developing a relationship with her path and journey. Time Waits for No Man, is a gospel truth, an adage, and a great soundscape for life and the moving image, or a passing Texas terrain. Lisa has been singing this song for listeners for the past 15 years and recorded a vocal piano duet arrangement with Jason Moran in 2015 at Houston's Sugar Hill Studios.
Lisa E. later made an accompanying video on location in Venice Italy to enhance the contemplative propensity of the meditation.
This song and video is a question about temporal existence. An action, in this case a question, and the space around the action.

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Time Waits for No Man
by Lisa E. Harris

Time waits for no man
when your money's gone
and you live at home.
Cool things we pretend are on their way,
forget about yesterday.

So you never leave and you never stay
You're stuck in between every other day.
And you're searching for a familiar face
to chase all your sorrows away.

Ah, throw away your dreaming!
You'll never become.
I can't help believing that dreaming is dumb.

So you start to think Like everybody else
and you start to hate your own self.
And now you're searching for a new addiction
to chase all your sorrows away.

Ah, throw away your dreaming!
You'll never become.
I can't help believing that dreaming is dumb.

For every man has a choice to make:
when to dream and when to wake.
when to stir and when to shake,
and when to chase all your sorrows away.

Copyright Lisa E. Harris 2006

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released May 23, 2019
Lisa Harris, vocals, composition
Jason Moran, piano

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Li/ Lisa E. Harris Houston, Texas

Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, writer, educator and researcher from Houston Texas. She is the founder of production company, Studio Enertia.
Li is the 2021 recipient of the Dorothea Tanning Award for Music/ Sound, awarded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2021 Texas Vignette Artist Grant winner. ... more

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