At Any Given Moment

Dennis Tobenski, tenor
Marc Peloquin, piano

Lyrics by William Zinsser

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This recording appears on And He'll Be Mine: Love Songs by Gay American Composers, Perfect Enemy Records PER-1 (New York, 2016), with the complete Modern Love Songs cycle and works by David Del Tredici, Zachary Wadsworth, Darien Scott Shulman, and Dennis Tobenski.

medium voice (original): C#₄ – E₅

high voice: F₄ – A♭₅

AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT

Verse:

As the poet said:
How do I love you?
Let me count the ways.
But I’d like to rephrase
        the question and start again.
Not how do I love you,
But when?

Chorus:

At any given moment
Of any given hour
Of any given day
You are somewhere in my mind.

At any given drop of sand in the hourglass,
At any given tick of the clock,
At any given shift in the sun’s position
I get that shock
Of recognition.
It’s you again!
Come to remind me
Of all our times together since we met
Not that I could ever forget.

At every given moment
Of every given hour
Of every given season
Of the year
You appear.