Whitacre: Water Night - Eric Whitacre, Eric Whitacre Singers

Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night

Night with eyes of water in the field asleep

Is in your eyes, a horse that trembles is in

Your eyes of secret water

Eyes of shadow-water

Eyes of well-water

Eyes of dream-water

Silence and solitude

Two little animals moon-led

Drink in your eyes

Drink in those waters

If you open your eyes, night opens doors of musk

The secret kingdom of the water opens

Flowing from the center of the night

And if you close your eyes

A river, a silent and beautiful current, fills you from within

Flows forward, darkens you:

Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul