Because I Could Not Swing for Love
by Delphine Skye
Emily Dickinson’s verse finds new life in Because I Could Not Swing for Love, where jazz and poetry meet in smoky harmony. Delphine Skye’s vocals—part Blossom Dearie, part June Christy—float over brushed snares and luminous piano. From the swing of “Siren’s Song” to the bite of “Nobody’s Song,” each track offers a moody, elegant dialogue between 19th-century poetry and 20th-century jazz cool.
New Music Coming Soon — 9/1/2025Released 2025
Max Frank Music
Album tracks
- 12:32Siren’s Song (The saddest noise, the sweetest noise) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 20:35Truths Dazzle (Tell all the truth but tell it slant) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 32:09The Carriage of Time (Because I could not stop for death (clip)Delphine Skye
- 40:45The Book’s Journey (There Is no frigate like a book) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 51:09Funeral in My Brain (I felt a funeral in my brain) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 61:06Conscious of Being (This consciousness that Is aware) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 71:01I Died for Beauty (I died for beauty) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 80:32No Time for Hate (I had no time to hate) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 91:08A Bird on a Walk (A bird came down the walk) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 100:52The Happy Stone (How happy is the little stone) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 111:01Hope’s Song (Hope is the thing with feathers) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 120:56A Picture of the Sun (Make me a picture of the sun) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 131:49Embracing the Dark (We grow accustomed to the dark) (clip)Delphine Skye
- 140:37Nobody’s Song (I’m nobody! Who are you?) (clip)Delphine Skye


