A friend suggested this one. Starting with a piano part, this quickly developed into a full-blown cover. The original Elbow track can be found on the record "Cast of Thousands." (2003)

Not a Job (Elbow cover)

Low-fi, lazy-day-after-Xmas cover of Arcade Fire's "Wasted Hours," recorded with an upright piano, using an iPad.

Wasted Hours (Arcade Fire cover)

I am not your princess
Though white's the living end
If not a lucky princess
who am I to hold your hand?

Put flowers in my hair to make it pretty
These ugly truths I know
Bottled up in blond and be skinny
For shame be a vagrant ho

If darkness is my sickness
too vulgar to invoke
and whites of eyes reign vicious
who am I to flash my own?

Put flowers in my hand to make it pretty
This ugly runway show
Be modeled up and dolled up and witty
An angel to behold

But I am not a princess
Nor flower to condescend
the whites of eyes so vicious
and cages without end

These towers in my head may get chilly
and many-faced to know
I'm howling at the moon over city
expected to tiptoe

But I am not a princess
I am not a princess
I am not a princess
No, I am not a princess

Towers

I didn’t want to try to match the melancholy of the original, so I went for upbeat on the piano instead. This one was for a friend.

Walking After You (Foo Fighters cover)

A demo for an original song recorded with an upright piano and an iPad. This one sounds kind of like it could play on a phonograph.


Your Dad Said (demo)

R.I.P. Adam Schlesinger
Written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger.

Towers

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