Beautiful keys and strings. Beautiful lyrics. REALLY beautiful vox! This
goes on my list of faves!

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As said, beautiful, as well as, sad, sweet and comforting. A very nice musical backdrop to a wonderfully expressive voice. Congrats you two:)

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to one of my favorite macjams of all time. Very nice indeed!!!

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Thanks ziti,

nice to hear from you again.

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just caught mr pucker discussing this in chat - wow - what a find! d/led!! fav'd and - omg - voted!! what a beautiful piece of work - xoxox

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Smooth and lovely. Just gives you a warm feeling. Beautifully warm lyrics.
An all-around excellent tune. Great combiniation of words and sounds.
And very reminiscent of The Blue Nile, which is a very good thing.

Nicely done.

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You've done a splendid job of adding lyrical and vocal legs to Patrick's
beautiful composition, Paul.

Your performance is honest and charming and the phrasing is relaxed
and natural. You've made a lovely melody even more evocative.

It sounds like a great number to close the second act of a musical... to
applause and cheers. ;-)

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Great collab guys...fab vocal performance and a really lovely tune all in all
Steve

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What a wonderful duo you two make. This has always been one of my
favorite bits of music and futzpucker has been getting better and better
at beautiful lush production. But the addition of Paul's light and precious
voice and lovely image-filled lyrics have made this track beyond
wonderful. The only line that stumbles, in my ears, is the "Some day I am
such a fool" line, especially the diphthong created by splitting up the
word "fool" which I would have preferred the simply end the line (perhaps
by adding an adjective to take up the extra notes). To add such depth to
the sentiments of "morer" music and a title, Paul your lyrics are excellent.
Thrilling collaboration.

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What a wonderful duo you two make. This has always been one of my
favorite bits of music and futzpucker has been getting better and better
at beautiful lush production. But the addition of Paul's light and precious
voice and lovely image-filled lyrics have made this track beyond
wonderful. The only line that stumbles, in my ears, is the "Some day I am
such a fool" line, especially the diphthong created by splitting up the
word "fool" which I would have preferred the simply end the line (perhaps
by adding an adjective to take up the extra notes). To add such depth to
the sentiments of "morer" music and a title, Paul your lyrics are excellent.
Thrilling collaboration.

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Interesting you should mention that line, Tobin. I thought a lot about that
line. I went with "fool" for three reasons (in addition to the always avaiable
reason of "laziness"). There is always tenstion in lyric wrtiting between
preserving the form of the lyric vs. preserving the intention or meaning of the
lyric. In this case, I felt that "fool" enhanced the intention of the lyric at a
small sacrifice of form.

Secondly, I don't like to adhere to form too rigidly. The perfect lyric, if too
perfect, can be boring or uninspired. This may just be an excuse, of course.

Lastly, the lack of syllabic exactness points up the word more, which I like.
You can think of it as a short melisma.

But, as usual, IMBFoS! Thanks so much for the listen, Tobin. I value your
opinion.

-Paul

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Thanks for the explanation. Just want you to know I love this track, critiques
from subjective ears notwithstanding. Excellent and thrilling collaboration.

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The perfect melding of music, lyrics, and voice. Truly an impressive
collaboration here. Paul, you have given a new "voice" to Patrick's
already wonderful song. Your lyrics seem perfectly integrated into the
rhythm and spirit of the music. Which is not an easy thing to do
coming to the music written by another. And your vocal offering nails
it and, in fact, drives home the nail... All together this is a complete
song, and so satisfying to listen to.

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You're such a tunesmith I was surprised it was your words with someone else's music instead of the other way round. Very nice and 'smooth'.

You should do a song about running dogs.

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very well done vocal treatment to futz's music........i remember how much
i enjoyed your first posted track to macjams.....this one is just as brilliant
as the first.......kudo's to futz for his excellent playing.......

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i like how you stayed true to the style in this song-sort of "hats"-era
blue nile and the long notes and melody-very annie lennox-nice job!!

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I would like to say that I was very honored to have Paul approach me
with his arrangement of my song. It was quite unexpected, as I thought
it would be quite difficult or even impossible to put a vocal track on a
free-tempo, nearly free-form instrumental piece such as this.

I was very pleasantly surprised to hear what Paul came up with. It
seemed that both lyrically and vocally he captured the essence of the
original and still managed put his own artistic spin on it. He certainly
brought full heart to his effort, which I appreciate.

I am grateful to all these fine musicians for the gracious and generous
comments, and I grateful to Paul for bringing his inspiration to bear on
this piece.

Thank you, good people of MacJams, for letting this song have another
life here.


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Very pretty, very uplifting. Your song makes my day. Your song provides hope and encourage ment. Very well crafted lyrics. Vivid imagry.
Nice keyboards. very relaxed, tasty performance. by Mr. Futzpucker. I like the very low-key singing and vocal phrasing.
Bravo


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The singin really goes hand in hand with this drop-dead gorgeus music.

This is quite relaxing.

Impressed!

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Your singing is beautiful. Not easy to lay vocals on top of an already polished instrumental piece. Your lyrics suit the music perfectly.

Thanks for this post.

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Henry, Very nice electric piano and vocals. I can't quite understand
the connection of the lyrics from the beginning to the end however I
appreciate the production and I think this is a very nice song after
listening several times.

mvh : )



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