Duncan Sheik

Released: December 12, 2006

Featuring: Jonathan Groff John Gallagher Jr. Skylar Astin Gideon Glick Brian Charles Johnson Remy Zaken Phoebe Strole Lilli Cooper Lea Michele Lauren Pritchard

Songwriter: Steven Sater Duncan Sheik

Producer: Joan Cullman Patricia Flicker Chris Roberts Duncan Sheik

[ILSE]
And all shall fade
The flowers of spring
The world and all the sorrow
At the heart of everything
But still it stays
The butterfly sings
And opens purple summer
With the flutter of its wings

[COMPANY]
The earth will wave with corn
The gray-fly choir will mourn
And mares will neigh with
Stallions that they mate, foals they've borne
And all shall know the wonder of purple summer

And yet I wait
The swallow brings
A song too hard to follow
That no one else can sing
The fences sway
The porches swing
The clouds begin to thunder
Crickets wander, murmuring

The earth will wave with corn
The gray-fly choir will mourn
And mares will neigh with
Stallions that they mate, foals they've borne
And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
All shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
All shall know the wonder of purple summer

Duncan Sheik is an American composer, best known for his work on the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, which won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Original Score and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

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