Between the Shadow and Soul

“I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Sonnet 17.

I wrote this song, like all of my songs, very quickly. I’m a firm believer that, I’m not so much writing the song — as channeling it. In the case of Between the Shadow and Soul, I had Hans Zimmer’s Time and Max Richter’s On the Nature…