composed

This is a cover of Mr. Brightside targeted at my Speech and Debate Team.

Im coming out of my shell
And Ive been doing all right
Gotta get better fast
Because Korea calls!

It started out with a speech
How did it end up like this?
It was only one speech
It was only one speech

Now I'm falling asleep
Dreaming of passing math
While I'm reciting my speech
The Main points of my draft

Now we get to go home
And the stress doesn't leave
And it's all in my head

Two tournaments left now
I am feeling stressed out
Let me go

I miss my weekends, do you know what I mean
I miss going home

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through outdated lines
Choking during practice time

But its just the price to pay
Glad to join your team, I say
You've opened my eager eyes
Now I see the bright side

I've come out of my shell
And I'm living my life
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all

It started out with a flub
How did it end up like this?
It was only one round
But then it turned into three!

Now I'm learning to see
What was once so unclear
While the new kids begin
From where I was last year

Now they too are so stressed
But they're growing up now
It's not all in their heads

We are all stressed out
We need time to rest, now
Let us go

Cause I just can't look it's killing me
My ballots, they're crazy!

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through outdated lines
Choking during practice time

But its just the price to pay
glad to join your team i say
you've opened my eager eyes
Now I see the bright side

All the right things in all the right places is good enough to be considered original. But being original has nothing to do with having fun.

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It simply is.

You might.

Stutter.

A new leaf.

Sustained equilibrium:
prevent overstimulation;
dispel understiumulation.

Negative velocity.
Positive position.
Untangling, ordering strands.
This is real.

Scrunched bundle.
It is all mine.
Nobody else really wants it.
Enjoying it is disturbing.

I riff gently on the piano.
I am gently treated by the piano.
Gentle are those who have comfort.

I went through my catalogue of previous photos, and decided that I'd like to make a song about one. I took this photo a little over a year ago, on a walk somewhere.
This time, I let myself have some fun.

Spicy piano.
The left hand doesn't do quite enough. The song starts nicely and
ends with boredom.

I spent a while forgetting about music.
Then a friend reminded me how sad it would be to have played my last song.
And so I play again.

A friend asked for a detailed explanation of how I made this.
Here's a copy of my response: https://mesacsclub.com/kaa/lumber-over.txt

I picked up a book from a take-what-you-want library some months ago, titled "The Enjoyment of Music Fourth Edition", printed in 1977.
I browsed it, and occasionally picked at its contents, yet did not commit to an extended reading.
I recently chose otherwise, reading from it about half an hour each morning for roughly a week.
The context its first 100 pages provides allowed me new-found musical control.

:}

doom doom doom
doom doom doom DOOM DOOM
doom doom doom
doom doom doom DOOM DUUM
doom doom doom
doom doom doom DOOM DOOM
doom doom doom
doom doom doom DOOM DUUM
DUN DUN DUN
DUN DUN DUN dun dun
DUN DUN DUN
DUN DUN DUN dun dun
DUN DUN DUN
DUN DUN DUN dun dun
DUN DUN DUN
DUN DUN DUN dun dun
doom doom doom
dittle dd--

A friend asked that I make their friend a beat to rap on.
When I asked my friend's friend what sort of beat they'd like, they responded in the Fortnite text chat, "skooby doo".
This is what I came up with.

I sampled the first episode of Scooby Doo, Slick Rick's "A Love That's True, Part 2", and GTA III's "Wash Him Off".

a3 b3 c4 d4 e4 d4 e4
a3 b3 c4 d4 e4 d4 e4
f4 e4 c4 e4 c4 e4 c4
g4. f4. e4. d4.
a4a5 g4 f4 e4 d4 e4
a4a5 g4 f4 e4 d4 e4
f4f5 g4 f4 e4 d4
e4. c4. d4. b3.

a3a4 b3 c4 d4 e4 d4 e4
a3a4 b3 c4 d4 e4 d4 e4
f4 e4 c4 e4 c4 e4 c4
g4. f4. e4. d4.
a4a5 g4 f4 e4 d4 e4
a4a5 g4 f4 e4 d4 e4
f4f5 g4 f4 e4 d4
e4. c4. d4. b3.

a3a4 b3 c4 d4 c4 d4 c4
a3a4 b3 c4 d4 c4 d4 c4
e4 d4 b3 d4 b3 d4 b3
f4. e4. d4. c4.
g4g5 f4 e4 d4 c4 d4 e4
g4g5 f4 e4 d4 c4 d4 e4
f4f5 e4 d4 c4 d4
e4 d4 c4 b3

a3a4a5

Hello, hi there
how do you do?
Oh, I am well!
How about you?

I am quite fine,
not quite sublime.
Oh, that's alright!
Is it though, dude?

I don't know . . .
I just said some thing
to get you to stop talking

Well, I'll have you know
If you let me talk more
this convo could grow!

You always do this
every time!
Why do you do it?
Why, why, why?
What's the point of a conversation
that ends leaving us feeling bitter and dry?

Hey now, come on!
I don't know
how else
to lead a conversation

I suppose that I do fear
experiencing
confrontations

Your fear is baseless!
And if it is not . . .
You, you are doomed
to be sad 'til you rot.

sugar coated hogwash!
You know nothing!
You don't know me!
You simply do not understand!
This is beneath me!
I am leaving!

So be it then, bye, bye!
I would rather be alone
than choose to share with you, my time!
Au revoir!
'til the day I die!

Why is it this way, always?
I do not want to be . . here . .

we are one, such happy days!
so empty without
my dear

all alone . . .
Why is it this way?
I can only hope
that they return some day . . .

now we find where wonder went
now we have a place for all the love to stay

Dearly teetering 5
Barely not falling 5
make sure to hold on to 6
the railing, beside you! 6

please do not let go 5
please, do not leave, no 5
please stay near to me please 6
let my shrill voice guide you! 6

where is it you'll go? 5
where is it you'll go? 5
where is it you'll go? 5
where is it you'll go? 5

where is it you'll go, I want to know
I want to know where you're going
do not ask why, I want to know
I want to know where you're heading
I want to be your every thing
I want to understand your mind
I want to be all of your life
I want your body to be mine

If you refuse to tell, then I will follow
If you refuse to tell, then I WILL FOLLOW

pitter patter 4
skitter, scatter 4
static on my mattress as I have my mental chatter 14
4

staring, soaring 4
slowly imploring 5
my mind digesting all it deems surely does matter 13
8

The night time crickets 5
Filling my head with 5
A sound that I found to be surely delicious 12
12

scrumdiddilyumptious 6
wholesome and gumptious 5
rhythmically making me feel so rambunctious 11
16

drippin droppin 4
bippin boppin 4
yes tiptoeing toward my inevitable coffin 14
20

laughin talkin 4
hackin coughin 4
feeling funky in a way that I am so in love with 14
24

It's a firy passion 6
at least as hot as 5
the universe's very hottest bastion 11
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a deep overture of love you may fall in 11
a great blast of feeling as a companion 11
32

cushioned, warm, delightfully and lightly sweet 11
distinct hint of honeysuckle in between 11
36

bouncing around in your mind 7
like a child on a trampoline 9
such a fervor unseen 6
40

As that child ages 6
thoughts settle in the dust 6
feeling the sureness of childhood's dusk 10
44

as the person that they once were 8
feels like no thing more 5
than an empty, sad, and brittle husk 9
48

How does one 3
looose 1
all that they had before 6
52

just to 2
go ahead and 4
replace it all? 4
56

what does one 3
dooooooooooooooooooo . . ooo, ooo 4
60

what is it that one does 8
when that surely is all 6
that can be done? 4
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