Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet - And So (Official Video)

Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet perform Shaw’s ’And So,’ from the album ’Evergreen,’ out now on Nonesuch: AND SO would a song by another name sound as sweet and true would all the reds be just the same or violets as blue if you were gone would words still flow and would they rhyme with you if you were gone would i still know how to love and how to grow and how the vowel threads through. and so they say the saying goes a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme but in the verse there’s always time. would scansion cease to mark the beats if i went away would a syllable interrupt the feet of tetrametric iambs when i am gone listen and i will sing a tune of love and life and of the ocean’s prose and the poetry of a red, red, rose, that’s newly sprung in june. and so you say the saying goes a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is how I’m keeping track of time. when a’ the seas rise high, my dear and the rocks melt with the sun will the memory of us still rhyme with anyone will we still tune our violins will we still sing of roses will we exist at all, my love, or will we fade to stanzas of the dust that i suppose is all we were and all we’ll be. and so the saying “so it goes” depends a lot on if a rose is a rose is a rose is rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a thing sublime and so we stay, on borrowed time. #carolineshaw #attaccaquartet #evergreen