Your name is Ann;
My name is Darshan. [x2]
I like the way you talk;
I like your Czech accent.
I love the shape of your lips,
and I love your beautiful eyes. [x2]
I like your skin.
Oh, it's beautiful,
Skin, oh, it's so soft,
Skin, oh it's beautiful and soft. [x2]
I like the way you walk;
I like your Czech assets.
I love the shape of your hips,
and I love that you're pretty and wise. [x2]"},
// {name: "Ann - Part 1", date: "20090911", flags: ['vocals', 'guitar'],
// description: "The first version."},
// {name: "Ann - Part 2", date: "20090911", flags: ['vocals', 'guitar', 'violin'],
// description: "First draft of the updated version."},
{name: "Too Much For One Heart", date: "20091106", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "Self expression is satisfying.
It feels like my heart is going to explode.
" +
"It feels like my heart is going to explode.
Sometimes my heart grows so fast.
" +
"Sometimes my heart grows so fast,
" +
"that I cry my eyes. I cry my eyes out.
" +
"I write cheesy songs, and I cry my eyes out.
All that I feel is too much for my heart to bear alone.
" +
"All this love is too much for one heart.
" +
"The only way to survive is friends and lovers.
" +
"We can put our hearts together, and feel, feel, feel, feel
" +
"love. Love. Love, love, love, love.
Sometimes my heart feels so much.
" +
"Sometimes my heart feels so much,
" +
"that I cry my eyes. I cry my eyes out.
" +
"I write cheesy songs, and I cry my eyes out."},
{name: "I Endure", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "I wrote this in the winter of 2000. It's been one of my favorite songs ever since, but for some reason I never got around to recording it until today.
Every morning, I get real tired, and I lie down in my soft, warm bed.
" +
"Images pass before my eyes.
" +
"Scenes are granted my mind to view.
" +
"Other worlds I enter at random.
The story makes no sense, but it's cool as hell.
" +
"Sam says that it's cool as ice, nevertheless it's cool as hell.
Every afternoon, I wake up in a soft, warm place.
" +
"Images are granted me of what can only be described as a room.
" +
"And I can only be described as Josiah.
" +
"And this can only be described as life.
I endure.
" +
"Do you der?
" +
"To der is to be cool.
" +
"To be cool is to live right.
" +
"To live right is to enter paradise.
Yeah, I'm going to heaven.
" +
"Are you gonna see/meet me there?
If you want to see me in heaven,
" +
"Then you will der, and you will der.
" +
"Just like I do.
" +
"Just like me."},
{name: "Things Have Changed", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "I used to be part of a spirtual community that was just a bit cult-like. The head teacher had way too much control over us, and this somewhat angry, self-empowering song was written right after I left the group in spring 2007.
Things have chaged.
" +
"You cannot take advantage of me or my friends anymore.
I have connections.
" +
"I have power.
" +
"I have money — Oh, yeah, that's power.
" +
"I have the means to repay what you did to me.
" +
"I have the means to put you out of your misery.
" +
"Don't tempt me. Oh no, don't try me.
You've been warned.
" +
"You better watch out.
" +
"You've been warned."},
{name: "Ann", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "I had a crush on my friend, Ann, in September 2009.
I like your skin.
" +
"Skin, oh it's beautiful.
" +
"Skin, oh it's so soft.
" +
"Skin, oh it's beautiful and soft.
I like your voice.
" +
"Voice, oh it's beautiful.
" +
"Voice, oh it's so sweet.
" +
"Voice, oh it's beautiful and sweet.
Your name is Ann.
" +
"My name is Darshan.
" +
"I like the way you talk; I like your Czech accent.
" +
"I love the shape of your lips, and I love your beautiful eyes."},
{name: "Ellen", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "I had a crush on my friend, Ellen, in January 2008.
Ellen, I like you.
" + "While it is certainly true that I don't know you very well,
" +
"It is also true that I really like what I know.
I'd like to dance with you.
" +
"How'd you like to dance with me?
" +
"Well, I could dance the whole night through, If I could dance with you."},
{name: "Invitation to Love", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "I wrote this in the summer of 2004. I was getting really into meditation and experiencing a lot of lovey feelings inside, but I was also feeling very critcal of the world and felt that it was severely broken and lacking in love.
What has happened to the world we live in?
" +
"Love is talked/sung about, but practically forgotten.
Well, I invite you to know love.
" + "Love is offered for us to just rest/dance/sing/play/laugh in.
" +
"So just sing and dance and play and laugh in it."},
{name: "Miraculous", date: "20091004", flags: ['guitar', 'vocals'],
description: "A funny little song written in the summer of 2007.
It's so miraculous just to be alive.
" + "Let's go for a walk,
" +
"Let's take a walk through life,
" +
"Let's go out together,
" +
"Let's go out tonight.
Just that we exist I feel is a miracle.
" +
"It's so miraculous just to be around."},
{name: "Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam", date: "20090502", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "As in: jam session with myself. 'Record' was pressed four times, with 'rewind' pressed in between. I often do that and then cut-and-paste the pieces until I'm happy with the arrangement. Other times, like here and with Jet Set, I'm so intrigued by the result that I can't bring myself to ruin the organic flow, so I leave them as they are."},
{name: "Nigirizushi", date: "20090430", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "Arranged, but not much."},
{name: "Taco Salad", date: "20090506",
description: "For some reason I felt like I was wrestling with this one; the basic idea came together easily, but then little things kept going wrong and it just wouldn't quite come together. But I'm happy with where it's at now."},
{name: "Deprimido sin Café", date: "20090504", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "Every five days or so, I skip my daily cup of coffee. I usually feel a bit down on those days."},
{name: "Blue Caramel Corn", date: "20090424", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "The beginning of the roll. I took the time to arrange this one pretty carefully."},
{name: "Licorice", date: "20090428", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "Left alone, but planned out before recording."},
{name: "Jet Set", date: "20090313", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'],
description: "A jam session with myself."},
{name: "'fore I", "basename" : "Fore I", date: "200912", flags: ['vocals', 'guitar'],
description: "One of the only songs up here right now in which I actually sing. I love singing, but most of my songwriting lately has been done in the wee hours of the morning, when Asha's sleeping, so my only option is electronic music and headphones.
When I write songs, I usually just sing whatever random words come out of my mouth. Sometimes I keep them; other times I go back and write real lyrics. In the case of 'fore I, I felt embarrassed by the initial \"word soup,\" so when I played it for Asha for the first time, I warned her that the lyrics were stupid and that I was planning on writing real lyrics soon.
" + "When she heard it, however, she said that she loved the lyrics and that I had to keep them. She explained that they meant:
" + "'fore I get out of town = before I die
" + "I better watch/jump with ladies on the trampoline; watch/swim with women in the submarine = have fun connecting with pretty ladies
" + "I'm gonna knock your socks off / rock your world 'til you're in love with me = make music that rocks / have fun connecting with pretty ladies
" + "I figured that was probably about right."}, {name: "Nine Times", date: "200806", flags: ['vocals', 'guitar'], description: "Remember the Instrumental Improvisational Thingy? It started as a guitar riff that I liked and decided to record. This song is what happened when I took the riff and decided to try singing over it instead of doing instrumental things over it. The lyrics are pretty ridiculous and aren't actually about anyone; they just happened to fit the rhythm I wanted to sing."}, {name: "20090624", date: "20090624", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard'], description: "Another one that was only meant as a bunch of ideas that might go well together if cut and pasted a lot. Unlike with Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam, however, this one was left unarranged out of laziness rather than out of admiration of its current state. It's been long enough that I don't think I'll ever get around to chopping it up, but I think it's good enough to share as it is."}, {name: "Girls Are Very Pretty", date: "2008Summer", flags: ['drums', 'violin', 'guitar'], description: "An idea I always meant to elaborate on, but probably never will, at this point."}, {name: "Cells", date: "200804", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard', 'vocals', 'guitar'], description: "Written for my Anatomy and Physiology class. I find this recording kind of hard to listen to now. My generally slightly-out-of-tune vocals are more so, the whole thing feels really loose, and something with the levels just hurts my ears. Sorry. At least this proves I'm improving. Anyway, I spent a lot of time on it and was pretty proud of it at the time, so here it is."}, {name: "Heart", date: "200805", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard', 'vocals'], description: "Here's another song written for Anatomy and Physiology class."}, {name: "Six Point Seven", date: "200805", flags: ['drums', 'keyboard', 'vocals'], description: "One of the songs I've spent the most time on. When I do it \"live\" with my sampler, it has a super-cool intro and outro that I really should record at some point."}, // {name: "", date: "", // description: ""}, ] var cur = 0; var audioSupported = false; function propagateDescriptions() { var s = ""; for (var i = 0; i < songs.length; i++){ s += '
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