Sunday, August 26, 2007

Summertime Lyrics

By request, I have tried to transcribe the Summertime lyrics to the best of my ability.
If you can figure out any of the missing lines feel free to submit them.

......?
......?
He hoped that ever would never end
and he hoped that summer would never end
It's summertime, summertime!
He'll get back as soon as he can
He'll get back as soon as he can
Oooh yeah, yeah he's (something ) the beach
.............?
He eats the food that he wanted
He liked that food that he wanted

Thursday, August 23, 2007

It's Summertime!






The other night the artist watched as I recorded a guitar track into GarageBand on the computer. I went downstairs and when I came back up I found him as you see him in the photo above; headphones on (plug dangling at his feet) and piano in lap. Grant had somehow figured out how to start recording and had added a track to my song. We sat together and listened and I was treated to a brilliant piece of low-fi avant-pop.

"He hopes that summer never ends, and he hopes that summer never ends", he sings over a manic toy piano and soft acoustic guitar melody. The artist pushes the structure of modern songwriting to its limits. After the guitar ends, the piano continues for several minutes before fading into a moment of silence and then the sound of a balloon being blown up for several more minutes, which is in turn followed by 2 minutes of dead silence and then a short conversation with the artist's teddy bear.