Name: Second Best
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: Tried to get outside of my usual comfort zone and made a stripped down pop song with just drums, bass, piano, mellotron and two vocal layers.

Second Best

by Universal Traveler

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Tried to get outside of my usual comfort zone and made a stripped down pop song with just drums, bass, piano, mellotron and two vocal layers.

lyrics

To whither away, die in the shade
Admit this is not what I'd expect
Now leave me alone, please let me go
to where I am almost second best

And I am the same, I'm not ashamed
wasting another shallow breath
Our eyes on the sun, my mind in a field
How did we make it half this far?

Remind me not to tell you how I made it back
Pretend that I was only out there for a while

Concerning the end, not to pretend
There's still a lot I'd like to say
I'm all out of ways, lost on the wind
waiting to be washed out to sea

Remind me not to tell you how I made it back
Pretend that I was only out there for a while
My mind returns and I begin to see again
In the end, somehow I made my way back home

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released March 25, 2020
Words and music written and performed (minus drums... it's a computer) and produced by Chris Johnson. Photo by me.

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