Your Brilliant Career

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• Genre: genre::song with words
• Words: Tigger and Woozle (first verse Tigger; not sure about second verse)
• Written: words mostly August 1985; music circa 1992
• Produced: when mixed::2015-10-16

I recorded the basic tracks (piano, vocals) on the TEAC A-2340SX in 1992. I digitized those in 2007, and added percussion and (electric piano) bass to produce this mix in 2015.

In 2017, I started rebuilding the multitrack session in Audacity from direct sources (no analog submixes), for a higher-quality final mix, but had to break off.

Notes

• The title is a reference to My Brilliant Career – Jenny and I saw the movie together when it played in Durham.
• The intro is a reprise of You or a Reasonable Facsimile.
• The original idea behind this arrangement was consciously inspired by the last 3 tracks on Abbey Road:
  • recap of another song on the same album
  • there was going to be a 17-second pause at the end (possibly using a recording of that same 17 seconds from my LP of Abbey Road, which has a loud scratch in it...
    • (Newer idea: instead of 17 seconds of silence or vinyl scratch, maybe some "music on hold" -- "your call is important to us, please stay on the line...")
  • ...followed by a short novelty track (The Penguin Song) with the announcement ("And now...") filtered to sound like a telephone.
• I finally figured out in late December 2017 that the words are about dissociation.

Lyrics

(Facsimile reprise)

The other day out in the garden

I saw your picture on TV

You wouldn't say what was the matter

Just like the way you did for me

(main)

You will live in a jar

You will travel very far

You will wonder who you are

You will live with a cat

Who says how about that

And a little sports car

Take me away from this riddle

'Cause I never heard the sound

always running through my heart

You will live in a tent

You will be the president

You will wonder what I meant

You will live over there

You will vanish in the air

You will think that I don't care

Take me away from this riddle

'Cause I never heard the sound

always running through my heart

You will be in a show

Your progress will be slow

You will not know where to go

You will tell me what to do

I won't listen to you

Your mom will be there too

You will be all alone

You will be on the phone

You will speak at the tone

The answer will be near

You will tremble with fear

You will shed a silent tear

(repeat from start thru "you will speak at the tone")