How are you

it grows

how are you (mp3)

Lyrics

When we sleep --I sleep
When we dream --I dream 
Our impossible lucid dream 
of living in a practice space
of living in the library with me

When we wake --I wake
When we reach --I reach
reach for our alarm
turn it off 
make a cup of coffee, put our
feet inside our socks inside our

shoe shoe oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh

How are you? 
How are you?
How are you?
How are you? 
How are you? 

oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh

Our love, it draws, it draws us close
close like protein fold chaperones
close like gravity
like living at the library with me

Our love, it grows, it grows like mold
like those holes in our favorite clothes
like the universe, iguanas and
our impending sense of

dooo dooo oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oom

Chords

C F a D x2 (chorus)

C C7 F f x2 (verse; 2nd verse each chord half as long and only 1x)

Outtakes

Impossible dream of:
warm soup in cans
making a list of truly random numbers
carrying the bass amp with one arm
a tiny house in the stacks of the library
playing guitar like Will Long
bottomless bowls of granola and yogurt

It grows like:
compound interest
entropy
average temperature of the earth
children
embryos
our oceans
those ozone holes at the poles
our hair and fingernails after we're dead
emerging economies

Song Writer Notes

A silly fun song. After listening to this again this morning, I think it could use a bridge.

Comments

This made me smile ear to ear and then at "iguanas" it made me laugh out loud. Hee-hee.

• I really like the keyboard work, both the sound and the parts. It even reminds me of Written In The Sand a bit. I am all about the groany lower parts at the end, which makes the pick-up into that last set of "oo"s sound like a drum fill somehow! I know Conor has been toying with working in more weird synths and stuff for a while, so it's nice to hear some solid progress on that front.
• My favorite part is the "How are you?"s. I just love the rhythm. Not knowing what to expect, or at least, when to expect something, really puts you on the edge of your seat and sucks you into the song.
• Just the idea of offbeat "oohs"! Was that hard to do? I would think it'd take some concentration to not just fall into step together.
• The effect of the offbeat oohs, spreading the melody around and refracting it in the neatest ways.
• This song is impossibly cute, but it's also tempered by weird stuff like iguanas and doom, and mold, and protein fold chaperones. Which keeps it from giving me a toothache.
• The impossible dream of playing guitar like Will Long: Shared by many.
• Re: the rest of the outtakes, I love seeing them, but I think you chose well.
• As for a bridge, I think the "How are you"s serves as a nice break, it's short and keeps the listener on their toes; I almost hear that as a bridge. Where were you thinking of putting one?

Thank you, thank you! I am not going to stop smiling all day.

Gabemcelwain 12:43, 18 February 2008 (PST)