Name: Ladies and Gentlemen
Duration: P00H05M04S
Description: A song I have wanted to create for a long while, but the opportunity to work with aerialist Lena Fumi made me actually do it. Written and recorded in a month, because nothing in the creative process is better, or worse, than a deadline.

Ladies and Gentlemen

by windows to sky

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A song I have wanted to create for a long while, but the opportunity to work with aerialist Lena Fumi made me actually do it. Written and recorded in a month, because nothing in the creative process is better, or worse, than a deadline.

lyrics

Now, for our delight!
More than tonight!
On exhibition: ladies and gentlemen.

He's strong and sure;
she's soft and demure...
Astonishing specimens, ladies and gentlemen!

Dear friends,
watch the ladder he ascends!
as she flexibilly bends over backward

In the whole human race,
they come in first and second place.
She's waxing the whiskers from her perfect face

Shoes on, lights up.
Give them the show they came for.
And if ever you fall, chin up.
Stick to the script, learn the lines,
take a deep breath.
Get back in the box

Our glamorous mess!
So pretty, but smart!
Effortlessly feminine, ladies and gentlemen!

Chiseled good looks!
No mind, no heart!
Oh how they envy him, ladies and gentlemen.

And you, in the pink,
or feeling blue?
Gendoor number one or number two?
The crowd is watching...

Keep up your aesthetics.
Hide your protrusions.
They don't mind prosthetics;
they'll buy the illusions.

Shoes on, lights up!
Give them the show they paid for.
And, if ever you fall, chin up.
Watch your steps; toe the line;
pick up on the cues.
Get back in the box.

Why do you cry, when we want you to laugh?
Why must you always feel cut clean in half?
Later you'll fly; you swear you know how.
But later means never
You're nailed to the now

Feet ache, props set.
Hurry, before your knees give!
Then hold
forever.

Mask on; cold sweat.
Settle down, we're nearly live!
Thank you, 5.
Get back in the box.

credits

released February 6, 2020
Joseph - Piano, Guitar, Glockenspiel, Vocals
Alpheus Underhill - Circus Drums
Frogs McCormack - Bass
Say Jay Hynes - Violin
Kelly Kasle - Bassoon
rY. - Trumpets
Sansa Asylum - Accordion
Liesel Hanson & Justine Elizabeth - Vocals

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windows to sky Los Angeles, California

Three-part harmony, layers of guitars, flugelhorn, violin, glockenspiel, the crispness of modern digital editing and the scratch of an old 78.

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