This piece is a Latin-Jazz Ballad that weaves four melodies together to represent an inconsolable sense of longing and yearning. 

SEHNSUCHT LYRICS:

Unsatisfied, misty-eyed, yearning inside
intense yearning, soul burning, tossing turning
feeling alone, in my bones, in my own zone

Forsaken, spirit shaken, my breath taken, lost linchpin 
Deep longing, my soul craving, my mind churning, fierce wanting
Mystified, longing denied, need set aside, void inside

Overcome, feeling numb, I succumb, zero-sum
I’m wistful, feel dismal, sleep fitful, it’s gloomful
My longing, is hazy, uncertain, stir-crazy
I’m windblown, soul’s millstone, mind’s grind-stone, 
on my own And I moan, heart unknown, barren groan, hollow clone
feel disowned, heart handblown, nerves un-sewn, crave home-grown

Forsaken, spirit shaken, my breath taken, lost linchpin 
Deep longing, my soul craving, my mind churning, fierce wanting
Mystified, longing denied, need set aside, void inside

Unsatisfied, misty-eyed, yearning inside
intense yearning, soul burning, tossing turning
feeling alone, in my bones, in my own zone

Feeling wind-blown, soul’s mill stone, mind’s grind stone
I moan, heart unknown, barren groan, hollow clone
Mystified, ache denied, set aside, void inside
Why

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