It’s happened once more,
Once more I was stopped,
Stopped what I was doing,
Music stopped me,
I had to listen.
I was taken into another world,
The world of the composer,
The world of Percy,
Percy Grainger’s music.
This voice sailed into the ether
And into my soul,
I was transfixed,
Transfixed by the sound,
That wondrous, beautiful sound.
Music has so much power
It can stop me in an instant,
As it did this time,
And I was transported,
Transported into its glory.
It stopped playing,
But that sound was within me,
And from that sound
Came these words.