Demos, early 2011

by One Happy Island

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02:35
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released 19 March 2011

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Track Name: Weatherman (demo, 1/26)
at the map in my blue suit
for the forecast at a glance
she called up
to say she could see cape cod through my pants

i asked her to my barbecue
and promised clear blue skies
dripping dudes
all laughed when tornadoes drove us inside
she stood by
we circled high
like turbulent air
something brewing there

a weatherman guesses
but knows not a thing
a weatherman wonders
what each failure will bring

arm in arm in old downtown
i signed a rain gauge for a fan
on nice days
a prime-time pop star to every old man
but i'll be damned
each night my random
models break down
i better kiss her now

faces from a satellite
their futures in nimbus clouds
old jet stream,
you move them, how i just can't figure out
is the doubt
what love's about?
my predictions fade
she surprises every day
Track Name: Meet Me in the Chorus (demo, 3/13)
Every day i hide my crush
with manners and coffee.
After nightfall I'm exposed
by stage lights and melodies

You're incomprehensible
when I try to read you
I'll wait till the lines clear up
when we're moving and I feel you

chorus:
i like to
jump close with you
on the dance floor
while everyone's nodding sweetly
you come and meet me
in the chorus
come meet me in the chorus

See our fingers clasp
my arms on your shoulders
Catch my waist when I spin in
or dare to be bolder

I tried so hard to hide
with so many cups of coffee
but now I am all exposed
thanks to dark lights and that heavy beat

chorus

(this is usually a flute/kazoo duet, but Meghan forgot her flute!)

Let's leave right now
still drunk on the band
when we walk out that door
you'll reach for my hand

chorus
Track Name: The Song About to Start (demo, 3/16)
i let it lag behind me
like a thousand times before
but rather than unwind me
it wound me even more.

when it came to find me
i was running, unaware
wondering if i should be
arriving anywhere.

who knew that falling in love would mean anything to me?
who knew that calling it love would be such a relief?

chorus:
i couldn't hear the song about to start
my heart beat right along oblivious
i couldn't see her standing in the wings
when the song about to start changed everything.

she paced backstage decidedly
the violins tuned up.
i could see that there was something
she was certain of.

trembling but slight, stumbling just so
she took what she'd been hiding
and let everybody know.

who knew that falling in love would mean anything to me?
who knew that calling it love would be such a relief?

(chorus)

i'd describe it as astonishing
'though the audience were applauding
they couldn't hear a thing...

i could only hear the song about to start
it leapt right from her heart and into mine
the secret that the two of us knew then
was that the song about to start would never end.