Lyrics Annotated
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CrackingTheSimonCode Lyrics Annotated |
Everything About It Is a Love Song |
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| 10-bar intro. Two-chord guitar sequence, F#/C# resolved to C#, each bar. Bass faint, drums silent. Electronics gently increasing. Languid feel. | |
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Locked in a struggle for the right combination— of words in a melody line, I took a walk along the riverbank of my imagination. Golden clouds were shuffling the sunshine.
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Languid, two-chord bars continue. Vocal in 12/8 over slow 4/4 beat. |
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But if I ever get back to the twentieth century, guess I'll have to pay off some debts. Open the book of my vanishing memory, with its catalogue of regrets. Stand up for the deeds I did, and those I didn't do. Sit down, shut up, think about God, and wait for the hour of my rescue.
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Way up-tempo. Drums quiet but quick. Vocal sixteenth notes. Same chords. |
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We don't mean to mess things up, but mess them up we do. And then it's "Oh, I'm sorry." Here's a smiling photograph of love when it was new. At a birthday party.
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8-bar electronics intro to this section. Buzzing in background like hive of bees. Substantial crescendo pressages vocal.
Vocal comes in on A#maj7. Drops to A on "Oh, I'm sorry." Electronics continues threatening buzzing. Lyrics totally change with "Here's a smiling ..." but only change in music is that the chords go to Dm, then Am. |
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Make a wish and close your eyes; surprise, surprise, surprise.
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Change in the lyrics completed. Electronics a bit less threatening. A# ("Make a wish ...") followed by D ("Surprise ..."). "Sur" precedes the bar. "prise" is on the beat. |
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Early December, and brown as a sparrow, frost creeping over the pond. I shoot a thought into the future, and it flies like an arrow, through my lifetime. And beyond.
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Vocal back in 12/8, key of D. Guitar chords up a half step to G/D resolving to D. Feeling of peace in the electronics.
Sparrows (see here) are white/brown speckled. Cross-reference to "Once Upon a Time ..."—"I look out my window, it's brown and it's bleak." |
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If I ever come back as a tree, or a crow, or even the wind-blown dust; find me on the ancient road in the song when the wires are hushed. Hurry on and remember me, as I'll remember you. Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
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Again, up tempo, sixteenths in the vocal. Chord continues G/D resolving to D. |
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The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song.
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Coda continues G/D resolving to D, each bar. Vocal in sixteenths, so has the opening tempo but does not have the languid feel of the opening. Melody almost an arpeggio, D major chord. |
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