by @liwei · made with Suno
The Vine Gives Again·Three Ways
2026-10-12 · 3:53
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Chamber folk-soul, Rhodes, acoustic guitar, cello and bass clarinet weaving around warm bass and brushed percussion; relaxed 6/8 at 58 BPM, full sandy female alto in a low-middle register with natural, clear English and expressive melodic turns, sustained phrases; three evolving movements, 12-bar intro, sixteen-bar developing instrumental bridge, animal imagery opening the final movement, 12-bar resolved outro, arranged with room for breath and musical development.
Lyrics & section notes
[Instrumental Intro - 12 bars]
[Complete Selected Text]
Such there be, who when they have done a good turn to any, are ready to set them on the score for it, and to require retaliation. Others there be, who though they stand not upon retaliation, to require any, yet they think with themselves nevertheless, that such a one is their debtor, and they know as their word is what they have done.
Others again there be, who when they have done any such thing, do not so much as know what they have done; but are like unto the vine, which beareth her grapes, and when once she hath borne her own proper fruit, is contented and seeks for no further recompense.
As a horse after a race, and a hunting dog when he hath hunted, and a bee when she hath made her honey, look not for applause and commendation; so neither doth that man that rightly doth understand his own nature when he hath done a good turn: but from one doth proceed to do another, even as the vine after she hath once borne fruit in her own proper season, is ready for another time.
[Resolved Instrumental Outro - 12 bars]