The Greatest Pop Of All

This song tells about heartbeat - the life-sustaining force, the greatest pop which is surely the first sound we hear before we are born and which we can hum and enjoy our time of life.

The song was originally written in 2009, inspired by the music of Paddy McAloon. The Vocaloid version has been around since then, but finally I can release this with a real singer. Big thanks to Miira for her amazing vocals, especially the heavenly angelic choir she created and lifted the song to even higher level. Once again BIAB provided great instruments for the arrangement, this has quite many MIDI instruments. The guitar solo needed quite much copy-paste before it was good enough.

MIDI:
by me: piano, oboe, SynthDrum

CelticAir Piano - MST
Orch60.sty Brass - ST3
Orch60.sty Strings - GPO4
Orch60.sty Piano -> Sforzando Acoustic Str Bass
Piano_F.sty Piano - GPO4
Spring.sty Bass - IO
Spring.sty Pad - GPO4
Spring.sty Piano GPO4
Spring.sty Drums
Heartbeat - XV5050

RealDrums: NashvilleEven8,1-SideStick,Ride

RealTracks:
Acoustic Guitar Pick #365
Acoustic Guitar Strum #368
Electric Guitar Slide #382
Electric Guitar Solo #583
Harmonica #626
Resonator Guitar #377
Sax #403

Vocals: Miira

Lyrics:

Through the clouds
filled with helium
through the unknown
Voyager glides,
space citizens like us
living by the stardust highway
hear this magic melody.

Mellowing the tough guys
a song even a punk must croon
catchier than modern jazz
pretentious to enchant
prog fans on the
dark side of the Moon.

I've been humming
the world's simplest pop tune
sacredly touching
it has made me swoon.
God has sown this hymn of the blessed ones
let all your prejudices fall
find it in your heart
there's the greatest pop of all.

Sailors adrift
on an endless sea
mountaineers
stuck on the snow top of K2
Divers in the Mariana trench
these chords still strike in their hearts.

Widows seeking for comfort
singles having a broken heart
what if they could join their hands
lifted by the
anthem strong enough to
pull the seas apart.

[Chorus]

Not a praise of the highness
but a fanfare for the smallest ones
who fumble through thorny lives
without sweet solace
they deserve to hear this
gentle chant of nuns.

[Chorus]

------
Janne

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