I often wondered - chorus - 2009
I Often Wondered is one of those instances where the words dictated the music to an extreme. The text, by Lewis Carroll, displays a unique feature that is cared over strictly into the music: when laid out in lines of six words, it reads the same down as across
I | often | wondered | when | I | cursed, |
often | feared | where | I | would | be — |
wondered | where | she’d | yield | her | love |
when | I | yield | so | will | she. |
I | would | her | will | be | pitied! |
Cursed | be | love! | she | pitied | me… |