Please please allay
Lyrics
when my lady friend starts to drive me mad with harmoniums from the interweb i say please please please allay history is dead and grows deader each day like the manuscripts piled vertically in the windowsill from the library oh please please please allay print it is dead and grows deader each day but we're still alive in these compartments of skin and if i'm driven to insanity she will come to me and whisper gently please please please allay
Music
Chords
i have the guitar tuned down right now, and a capo on the first fret. so not sure where this actually is, but here are the chord shapes:
intro: F, E, Am
verse: Am, C, Fm, Bflat
1st chorus: Eflat, Aflat, Gm, Fm, Cm, Eflat, Aflat, Gm, Fm, Cm, F, C, E, Am
2nd chorus and bridge: Eflat, Aflat, Gm, Fm, Cm, Eflat, Aflat, Gm, Fm, Cm, F, C, E, D7, G, G7, C, F, E, Am
3rd half-chorus: Eflat, Aflat, Gm, Fm, C
Structure
intro
verse
chorus
verse
chorus
bridge
verse
half-chorus
Songwriter Notes
so deirdre has been preparing for a conference at harvard on "unmusic" and has been listening to loads and loads of barrel organs on youtube. i'm mean loads and loads of barrel organs all day playing all kinds of different songs. sometimes bird songs, sometimes things that belong on coney island, sometimes 18th century tunes, but always on barrel organs. its funny, but it's also been making me a little loopy. so that was the inspiration for the lyrics, but then it sort of became a song about obsessions and the management of them. luckily deirdre and i do a pretty good job here. for the chords i was trying to mess around with shifting between Aminor/Cmajor and Eflat major/C minor. Professor DKL explained to me that was what seemed to be going on with sea horses, necessity, and pillow. In this progression I was sort of trying to see how far i could take it. to me, some of the chords certainly seem a little all over the place, but i think the melody holds it together enough for the listener to get through it without feeling too upside down. which is cool. i have to admit, i'm quite excited about all the possibilities here. it's sort of like discovering the major scale all over again. the chords feel very new and exciting to me. hopefully it isn't too hard to listen too. Conorl 20:56, 4 March 2009 (PST)
