Songs That Should be in This Is Us

Composed demo in GarageBand in April 2019. Extended to full version October 2020. Inspired by This Is Us.

Sabrina Corpac's Album

Father’s Son

Composed September 14, 2020. I was thinking of Jack Pearson from This Is Us, this character known for wearing flannel shirts. Like wearing a flannel shirt in autumn, the song is warm and lovely.

Flannel Embrace

2021-10-19

Tuesday

Hallelujah, single by Shannon from the album Lucky

Lucky

Hallelujah

Apple iTunes

Introduction in English:

Last summer I went wandering in the Black Forest with my oldest friend. After a long day of walking, we stopped at a rather musty inn.   
We were chewing on the overcooked pasta casserole when suddenly the door opened and a young lady entered the inn. With her noble and elegant-delicate appearance she did not fit at all to the stuffy environment.
She sat down together with her family, who hermetically sealed her off, at the next table.
My friend and I immediately had the same association of a "sad beauty". On the outside, she seemed to hold herself together like an extremely well-formed porcelain figure. In her being, however, she seemed deeply lonely, isolated, and almost broken to us.  
For a very brief moment, our eyes met. And in this millisecond-eye gaze into her soul, this chanson was born.  
Since this young woman would have fit more into the Versailles chateau culture of the late 18th century, I sing this chanson in a frail French.

Lyrics in English (for those who don't speak French)

Sad Beauty

You sit there, upright, as if oiled
The hair tamed, strictly gelled

Behind the glazed look,
A shadow falls back
On misfortune

Your face marbled,
Brightly made up, highly decorated
like a disused fairy tale lake
like a nestless animal

You fall - unnoticed
A broken porcelain work of art
An art vase with a deep crack in the bottom

Sad Beauty, Sad Beauty, so sad

Your little daughter sits to your left
Wants your answer, but you are silenced

Your mother feeling is completely drained

Your parents look at you
They can't reach you anymore
Your sister is shaking at your garden gate
Even from your beloved ones you are cut off

You fall - unnoticed
A broken porcelain work of art
An art vase with a deep crack in the bottom
Sad beauty, sad beauty, so sad

Sad Beauty

Around The Atmosphere
By: Pieter Hurter

#ambient #instrumental

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Around The Atmosphere

Through a Mist

Life and the weight she carries
Pressing challenges
Willing to evolve
Virtuously devoted
Is a fast track yeah

The true grandeur of humanity
Is in moral elevation
Sustained enlightened and decorated
By the hands of man

The scene for great passion
Growing wings to flow
Under the cosmic ceiling
Contagiously powerful
Is a fast track yeah

Let it flow
Let it flow


https://haleen1.bandcamp.com/track/the-true-grandeur
https://youtu.be/Ic3p4WGOWaY

The True Grandeur

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Word to the wise: come to terms with your faith before your own mission
Goes to the dogs & your loyalty gets mistook for misprision
Down to the wire, circling vultures all await your excision
Cut to the chase: you’ll be cast out, disgraced, erased, O the list goes on
All around, hustlers standing the ground they acquired by hustling
Up & down, all  around them the infrastructure rusting
Face in their hands, charity transfers their bake-sale proceeds, entrusting
The beggar rebel holding a cup & a sign reading hedl, the dream lives on

Word to the wise: your brother in x’s heart drinks blood even as it bleeds
Needs of the world endlessly discoursed over devices no one needs
Back to the wall, he insists he’s enlightened just because he reads
Close to the Knives, but he skims looking for all the juicy bits (don’t we all?)
All around, Shamans selling the sacred stones for a pittance
Up & down, your commitment to branding the price of admittance
No one’s shy anymore: shame gets off at the first whistle stop & good riddance
Don your camo, get out & gather up weapons & ammo, the game is on

Word to the wise: your sister in y, she hunts with the mind of a leopard
Snake in the grass, but we’ll give a pass to any who’ll go on the record
Pastor approved: slaughtering sheep to provide meat & fleece for the shepherd
Come to the truth at the expense of a soul (don’t we all?), & the clock ticks on
All around, drummers drumming their armies of God to the river
Up & down, endlessly beating, berating, baptising each other
Long live y & death to x!  Stuff your manners & judge your confessor
Feed your cancers, phrase all your questions in the form of answers, the band plays on.

Word to the Wise

Runaway

Walking Away

Like a bird in a cage doesn't know what it's missing, as it stares into the bright sky.
He never experienced wind on his wings, as his life was passing him by.
But he's sure that there's something.
Just beyond reaching.
He can feel it within his minds eye.
An ache beyond words.
A nagging deep feeling.
As he stares and longs for that sky.

Oh, there's no gain.
Without any pain.
Like a punch bag.
Locked away safe.
Oh, there's no way.
To get away.
When you deny.
All that's inside you.
All that's inside you denied.

Memory can be transformed by a meeting with someone who comes with a plan.
A plan that might keep you from opening boxes, discovering things by that chance.
Like a jigsaw with thousands of similar pieces.
Place them anyway that you choose.
But it's right or it isn't.
It fits or it doesn't.
It's easy to get the thing loose.

Oh, there's no gain.
Without any pain.
Like a punch bag.
Locked away safe.
Oh, there's no way.
To get away.
When you deny.
All that's inside you.
All that's inside you denied.

A pointless vendetta based on an opinion that flies in the face of the truth.
Hard to play anything, even Solitaire, without a full deck of cards to use.
The keeper of secrets.
Creator, benefactor.
A tinker, a tailor, a spy.
The transformation from a squab to a pigeon.
Held back by a bare faced lie.

Oh, there's no gain.
Without any pain.
Like a punch bag.
Locked away safe.
Oh, there's no way.
To get away.
When you deny.
All that's inside you.
All that's inside you denied.




No Gain

Scrambling desperately in the past
When I hadn't quite left my mark on the world
There is a blinding light
A dream that's come true
This is a song about how I feel for you

CHORUS 1
In a moment you filled me with a joy
Took the demons and watched them all destroyed
Diving headfirst into an empty void
Loving looks and Sunday smiles
The darker days are through
This songs about my feelings all for you

If at any time you feel sad
I will act like I'm all armour-clad and strong
Defeat the obstacles that stand in our way
I would do anything to see you today

CHORUS 2
In a moment you lifted all the gloom
A beam of light that comes shining in the room
I think I'll pen you yet another tune
Loving looks and Sunday smiles
The darker days are through
This songs about my feelings all for you

CHORUS 1 and 2

Loving Looks And Sunday Smiles

Parachutes

Yellow

“This Town” Lyrics:

Waking up to kiss you and nobody’s there
The smell of your perfume still stuck in the air
It’s Hard
Yesterday I thought I saw your shadow running round
It’s funny how things never change in this old town
So far from the stars

And I want to tell you everything
The words I never got to say the first time around
And I remember everything
From when we were the children playing in this fairground
Wish I was there with you now

If the whole world was watching I’d still dance with you
Drive highways and byways to be there with you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you

I saw that you moved on with someone new
In the pub that we met he’s got his arms around you
It’s so hard
So Hard

And I want to tell you everything
The words I never got to say the first time around
And I remember everything
From when we were the children playing in this fairground
Wish I was there with you now

Cos if the whole world was watching I’d still dance with you
Drive highways and byways to be there with you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you

You still make me nervous when you walk in the room
Them butterflies they come alive when I’m next to you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you

And I know that it’s wrong
That I can’t move on
But there’s something about you

If the whole world was watching I’d still dance with you
Drive highways and byways to be there with you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you

You still make me nervous when you walk in the room
Them butterflies they come alive when I’m next to you
Over and over the only truth
Everything comes back to you

Everything comes back to you

This Town

I Know How To Speak

Cleopatra

The very first instrumental I composed on GarageBand in April 2019. Inspired by Jack Pearson from This Is Us which airs on Tuesday nights (hence the title), though most of the show's music is a mix of classic rock and acoustic songs.

Tuesday Nights

Inspired by the character of the same name in This Is Us. The acoustic guitar represents his humbleness, determination, and devotion, and could pass as a track in this show since it’s indie folk. Created in GarageBand. Dedicated to Milo Ventimiglia.

Jack Pearson

No, I'm not sick. Some of my daydreams are turned to songs because of the coronavirus pandemic and many of us in quarantine. Listeners, stay home and stay safe.

(Lyrics)

(Chorus)
City lights, pretty sights, along with you by my side.
City lights, pretty sights, I'm sure you will be mine.

(Verse 1)
So many guys that I can choose and lose.
There is only one you. How I cannot love you?
So many fun things we can do.
There is only one you. How I cannot love you?

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)
Your handsome face clouds my thoughts and haunts my dreams.
There is only one you. How I cannot love you?
Your confidence rocks my world, makes me a happy girl.
There is only one you. How I cannot love you?

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Don't leave me astray.
Just take me away, or at least stay.

(Chorus)

(Outro)
City lights, pretty sights, along with you...by my side.

City Lights

Sabrina Corpac is an American indie/experimental composer, a New Yorker living in Utah. She has been composing music since 2009, first in Guitar Hero's Music Studio feature, then in GarageBand. She can play percussion and guitar. From her cool beats to her unique music style, her music will take you to another world. This account is the first to feature her compositions.