some cool Beach-boy like BGV's in there - great vocals !

Another gem of a song with fabulous harmonies, singing and guitar work

luv that melody line, sounds like it's under water.... very cool... some great guitar work in there too...🤘👊😁🙏

Duration: ca. 9'
Music by Robert Paterson • Lyrics by David Cote

Instrumentation:  soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble (wind doubler [flute, B-flat clarinet, oboe], violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Performed by American Modern Ensemble, Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano, and Jorell Williams, Baritone

Purchase Sheet Music (available with In Real Life II and In Real Life II): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2778
Extraordinary may be performed as a stand-along work, or with In Real Life I and/or In Real Life II.

For more information:
Version for Soprano,  Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-chamber-ensemble
Version for Soprano, Baritone, and Piano: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-piano

PROGRAM NOTE
As a follow-up to our song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (or piano), Robert and I  agreed the concept of five characters looking for love online should have a male counterpart. Written for baritone and chamber ensemble, In Real Life II looks at five contemporary men clicking their way to second chances and romance. In “No Frog” we meet a prototypical player, a guy who fluffs his profile, but the truth keeps slipping out. The tone shifts with “Sola Fide,” in which a U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan explains the tattoo on his chest and the wounds inside. An older gentleman envisions one last fling in the irreverent “Die with Me.” In “Still Vamping,” a gay man muses on his start-and-stop romantic history. Finally, in “Nice-Plus,” an everyday guy reveals a hidden passion. In Real Life II was commissioned by American Modern Ensemble with funding from the Doctorow Family Foundation.

American Modern Ensemble: In Real Life

In Real Life

Extraordinary (Version for Soprano, Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble)

LYRICS

I'd give your pretty head a little shake.
Cos maybe i'm not such a fool.
Ah now, you're out there hanging with the super freaks.
The ones who abhorred you at school. 

There's no reason to be this excited by.
Oh, it's only some shit up your nose.
You look in the mirror from your pallid eyes.
Good lookers never give you a rose. 

The cows in the fields,
Oh they get it for free,
They get it for free.
The cows in the fields,
Oh they get it for free,
Come get it with me. 

Overestimating your thinking time.
It's seconds not the years that you thought.
The days that you gave in waiting on the line.
Can't count all the shit that you bought. 

Perfecting a lazy impression of.
The dandiest man on the town.
Might fool all the others with your dirty clothes.
Someday everybody comes down. 

The cows in the fields,
Oh they get it for free,
They get it for free.
The birds and the bees,
Oh the cows and the trees,
They get it for free.
The cows in the fields,
Oh they get it for free,
Come get it with me. 

You think you'll have it down
your nose at us.
Now that it bleeds take a pass.
The wolf is laying right there in your grandma's bed.
My girl what big teeth that he has. 

I'd give your pretty head a little shake.
Cos maybe we're not such a fool.
Ah now, you're out there hanging with the super freaks.
The ones who abhorred you at school. 

The cows in the fields,
Oh they get if for free,
They get it for free.
The birds and the bees,
Oh the cows and the trees,
They get it for free.
The cows in the fields,
Oh they get it for free,
Come get it with me.


Cows (Get it)

LYRICS

Like a bullet in the shoulder, laid there bleeding out.
Like a waif when you look in the mirror, staring out.
Like your ankle in a bear trap, oh you're screaming out.
Like another deal to wrangle, hopes are fading out. 

Oh this is no surprise to me.
You wake me from my reverie. 

Oh you wake up in the back seat, oh you're fading out.
There's a rope around your wrists, and you lay there fading out. 
Can't remember how you got there, oh your fading out.
Oh it takes a while to figure out, you're fading out. 

Oh this is no surprise to me.
You wake me from my reverie.


Rêverie [with The Fall of Saigon]

LYRICS

Oh there's a girl in the corner of my tv.
(and I'm totally wasted)
And I don't know what any of it means.
(or how to translate it) 

Tired of wasting my Friday nights,
taking a chance on you.
Tired of working and getting nowhere,
drinking too much too. 
Cos everything's a bit shit,
and nothings going great.
The Frosty Jack's is going down,
I'm wasting half my days. 

Jobfinder coursing down the screen.
(and nobody reads it)
Slightly better than QVC.
(what everyone's leaving)

Cos everything's a bit shit,
and nothings going great.
This Frosty Jack's is going down,
I'm wasting half my days. 
Tired of wasting my Friday nights,
taking a chance on you.
Tired of working and getting nowhere,
drinking too much too. 

You told me everything was shit.
(but I couldn't face it)
You told me everything was a bit shit
(and I tried to chase it)


Jobfinder [with The Fall of Saigon]

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Running Away From

A New Joy For All - Combstead / Robert Grigg

The Sound of something Groovy ? Just run to it, dance, move, max out, do the thing, feel happiness, be happy and enjoy Rock'n'roll metal riff in this Instrumental Guitar Rock Track. Feel free to like - and miss the bad day(s). Enjoy :-)

Track from the Instrumental Rock Album 2023 from MODVÆGT:
No Music No Life: https://soundcloud.com/modvaegt/sets/nomusicnolife

Released november 2022.
V. 1.1 m

Groovy (Instrumental)

this is basically my life, specifically late July 2023 til September 2023, put into songs. this is me


originally released September 25, 2023

Shout out to Whisper of the Heart for being the best example of being a creative in all of media, shout out to Yoshifumi Kondō for your brilliant mind, shout out to **** ***** and *** **** for making me feel alive and breaking my heart into a million pieces I love you both forever (jk) [also yes ghost girl is about 2 different people :O], shout out to Fred again.. and Jessie Reyez for capturing how I feel about missing somebody better than I did with Jessie (I miss you) and sorry for stealing the vocals I hope you don't notice lol, shout out to the song Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower by Susumu Yokota for inspiring Let me catch my breath, shout out to vewn for capturing the human condition so perfectly in all your videos and for capturing mental health so perfectly in 'motivational video movie' and in all your work, shout out to Agony by Yung Lean for inspiring one specific detuned piano layer in Mara and for guiding the structure of the track as a whole, shout out to a sermon on the book of Ruth by the pastor at Cornerstone Church in Boston for inspiring one of the lyrics "call me Mara cause God's made life bitter" and for inspiring the title of the song, shout out to Uberduck AI vocals for the vocals on Mara and Null and, shout out to blessings stranded on YouTube for capturing my specific feelings towards life better than anyone else ever has, shout out to flyingfish for making amazing shoegaze and for inspiring the second half of the song, Shout out to my family who I love so much, shout out to the song Dark Blue by User2222 which singlehandedly inspired and shaped this entire EP, and shout out to God (that sounds cringe saying shout out LOL I sound like a youth leader) but it is hard to trust You lately but I still have my faith in none other.

Jobfinder [with The Fall of Saigon]

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