Exploring Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage

"Maiden Voyage" (click title 
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music by Herbie Hancock
words by Mike Barrett

this time next time
this line next line
this chime next chime
this mind mines rhyme
this sine co-sine
this sin this crime
window sunshine
this note sublime
this prime next prime
surf church sand shrine

wave form
dithyrambic noise
sun shorn
dithyrambic noise
careworn
dithyrambic noise
starborn
dithyrambic noise

vision
dithyrambic noise
mission
dithyrambic noise
risen
dithyrambic noise
listen
dithyrambic noise

during solos:
What more am I 
than on a wave 
between earth and sky?

Blue is a note
blue is the ocean
blue is the color 
of this cresting emotion

It takes the sea
it takes the air
and it takes your courage
for every moment 
that you launch
is your Maiden Voyage