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Slept away in a forest (song)

This song was made for the Art Jam 2021. Theme was anachronism so I decided to make a Gregorian chant styled song with some modern midi beat and soundscapes. Lyrics are a poem from a Finnish poet, Eino Leino, and this poem is called ''Metsään nukkunut'', from 1897.Here is a very free translation to English (not really a good one): ''I am like a child, slept away in a forest, when the dusk falls I wake up screaming,but brother has gone away, sister has drowned and the echo answers the screams. Does not know poor boy the time, does not know where the home or road is. Walks the trails through the coniferous forest, oh but to know which one leads to mother's. So great, ghastly is the deep forest, so silent and gray is everything, cannot feel the wind, trees staying still and behind spruces trolls peek. And a child weeps, runs, falls and rises, falls, rises once again. But small is the boy, big is the forest and so far is the sweet home. I am like a child, slept away in a forest, when the dusk falls I wake up screaming,but brother has gone away, sister has drowned and the echo answers the screams.'' Hope you enjoy it even tho it's a little off tune.