FAWM: "◄2► boyfriend for the sky"

◄2► boyfriend for the sky

1 week ago by @burrMod

◄2► boyfriend for the sky

burr

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Liner Notes

i'm blowing out the cobwebs by catching up on projects my overloaded 2024 self wasn't able to follow through on last 50/90 challenge.

🚨 weird alert 🚨

i had an ambitious idea to do a #CommentsFirst #Cassette #4Track #Feast so i posted not one but FOUR #Titular titles and let people go nuts.

then, once the prompts came in... i sort of saw a narrative emerge and decided to try a mini "concept EP" that tells a story, on top of the cassette and comment constraints. why? because i'm a glutton for punishment.

this ended up being very ambitious and, while fun, results were mixed. i don't think i'll try this combo of constraints again! 😅 i kinda had to "cheat" from time to time either pre-sequencing some parts in a DAW or playing VST instruments and then routing the audio to the deck, since i don't have (or even know how to play) some of the instruments i was prompted to use.

original comment prompts from last summer:

the tracks & instruments:
T1 ► yamaha pss-480 "music workstation"
T2 ► nyckelharpa VST / baritone uke
T3 ► vocals / sound fx
T4 ► tambourine

all the songs are:
1 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309129
2 ◉ THIS!
3 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309131
4 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309132

Lyrics

==== MOAR NOTES ====
this is SECOND in the series. in which we meet our narrator takes a work trip and is seated next to the mysterious artist he admires. they hit it off.

the original title i was given from titular was "boyfriend for the skies" but singular worked better. i happen to have a VST of a nyckelharpa which has "bowed" samples, so that's in the intros and choruses. the "clever rhyming structure" i chose (for the verses) has a name: ballade, which is ABABBCBC.

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the flurry of failed alarms
nearly made me miss my flight
maps and apparatuses in my arms
off to an archaeology site
and there, seated to the right
of my nearly empty seat
was a woman’s whose work i know by sight
and who i’ve always longed to meet

we find common ground as we fly
who knows where we’ll land, you and i?
catapulted like a ufo up high
is this real, or am i a boyfriend for the sky?

art, and science, and unknown lore
the enigmatic allure we share
brushing our feet on the cabin floor
breathing in recycled air
we’re such an unworldly pair
no missed connections
i have nothing to declare
except my ever-growing affections

we find common ground as we fly
who knows where we’ll land, you and i?
catapulted like a ufo up high
is this real, or am i a boyfriend for the sky?

Comments

@nadine 1w

This sounds pretty good for being so random! The lyrics haha !!

@ductapeguyMod 1w

That "almost real" bowed nickelharpa solo at the start is sooo interesting. The almost romance story is delightful.

@jimdgreen 1w

oh this is simply joyous - if this was a 7" I'd buy two, one to keep and one to play.

@namjunerobot 1w

I get a They Might Be Giants vibe, whom. I love. Really cool idea and I think how it ends is great. Wonderful lyrics.

@sapient 1w

I had a flight once where, as I was putting my bag up in the overhead locker, the pile of blankets in the window seat came to life and a voice said, "Do you speak Russian?". I said no. The blankets didn't speak or eat for the remainder of the 10 hour flight...
I'm glad our protagonist had a nicer time of things. I love the cheery vibes and yeah, that title is just great 🤩

@cts 1w

This is such a high concept tune (I was overwhelmed just reading the liner notes, man 😀 ). I salute you for the creative endeavor and I love that Yamaha-480. That drum fill brings back sooo many memories. Chorus is making me wanna think about The Cure's song High (which I love so very much).