Magic hair shop
Oh, Magic hair shop
Rearrange this hay
Rearrange this hay
Mr Sassoon let your
Skills bloom
Whatever … I'll pay
Finger nails and cuticles
And toenails beautiful
Boy wants to go
With me
Been so lost at sea
Magic hair shop
Life ring
Need all your
Need all your
Best things
To sing my song
Not one line wrong
Walk on water
In the sky
In symphonious beat
Under cashew moons
Wading newly wed street
Magic hair shop
This is seen: stumbling down a hi-way
This is seen: stumbling down a hi-way
Humming out of key
Love oh love
Yin oh yang
Nowhere did ‘it began’
Serving one another
Nowhere is it bound
Nothing there to lose
Following jester clowns
Carrying the sacrament
Of lost and now found….
Yin and yang ("dark—bright") describes how opposite or contrary forces are complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world (rather than opposing), and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Yin and yang forces interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, (for instance shadow cannot exist without light). In Daoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole.
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Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most famous and influential of all composers, with significant work in several musical genres, for a variety of instrument combinations. His works for symphony orchestras include nine symphonies and about a dozen pieces of "occasional" music; he wrote seven concerti for soloists and orchestra, and four short works that include soloists; he wrote 32 piano sonatas and numerous shorter pieces, as well as works with piano accompaniment including 10 violin sonatas, 5 cello sonatas, and a sonata for French horn, as well as numerous lieder; in addition to 16 string quartets, he wrote five string quintets, seven piano trios, five string trios, and more than a dozen works for various combinations of wind instruments; his only opera was "Fidelio," but he also composed two masses and a number of shorter vocal works with orchestral accompaniment. His grandfather had Lodewijk left Mechelen in what is now Belgium to become the leading musician in Bonn. Ludwig learned music from his alcoholic father and began performing at seven. (His father, trying to exploit
him as a child prodigy, claimed he was only six.) At 21 he moved permanently to Vienna to study composition under Joseph Haydn. (At 17 he had traveled there to study under Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but it is not clear if the two ever met.) In his late 20s, in a rage over his work being interrupted, he fell over in a fit; his hearing only partially recovered and was further impeded by severe tinnitus. This did not prevent him from composing, but it made concert work difficult. After a failed attempt in 1811 to perform his own "Piano Concerto No. 5" (the "Emperor"), he did not appear again on stage until he directed the premiere of his "Ninth Symphony" (the "choral") in 1824, and he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience because he could hear neither it nor the orchestra. Meanwhile, in addition to his progressive deafness, his general health also progressively worsened, often leaving him unfit to work. As composing became more important to his livelihood, the early influence of Mozart and Haydn became supplemented by intense study of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.