Evening Song

Synopsis

Evening Song is the story of two people intoxicated with each other. Maggie and Chris have recently met, just started dating. Each sees the other as both impossibly attractive and illegible. They want to spend all of their time together, and they spend a good deal of it that way. They talk. A lot. Maggie tells Chris her life story and Chris reciprocates. She leans. They kiss.

Evening Song began as a poem. The main textual difference between the poem and album is that their scenes are flipped. The poem begins at a lake and ends at Maggie’s apartment on a seminary campus. The album starts at Maggie’s apartment, ends at the lake. Both scenes take place during the evening. On the album, these evenings are divided by night, represented by a nocturne.