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This is beautiful Ron. The vocal is outstanding. Your vocals just keep getting better and better.
Lyric is superb as always, and I love the simplicity of the arrangement. Might be great for sync. Has the movie feel.
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No kidding, no jest, this is really a fun creation of yours, Ron. You picked the perfect group to present it, and you know I love what your lyricist adds to it. Very special indeed. I really like the creative contrast between the flowing melody and the all-four-beats rhythm, and how you add breaks at the right times. THANKS, Marty! Yeah, the intermittent triplet feel over the four beat bars aligns with the misaligned feelings of the poor narrator. Sounds cool, too. Glad you enjoyed the tune!
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Hi, Ron. Good song, but the vocal guitar is what makes it for me. Nice work! 
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Love it, Ron. The lyrics really strike a chord (or resonate if you prefer). The emotion they and the melody and your voice all evoke together is a bit painful but my younger angsty self can really relate. Thanks, Beth! Wasn't being younger and angsty just TOO UNBEARABLY COOL?! I did have to dig back a ways to remember it myself. Ha! Glad you enjoyed the tune!
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This is a true pop diamond, one of the most intimate songs I have heard for a long time. It's difficult to even find words to describe how good this song is. The lyrics are heart-wrenching - "you're pulling my strings/like I'm your puppet/I'm not a puppet". And the chorus is really really strong, one you can really be proud of. Great idea to use such a small band, it gives room for your excellent vocal performance and the raw emotion in your voice, even sibilants belong there. The guitars sound fantastic. I love the minor chord at the end of the chorus, true highlight (or lowlight in a positive sense). And excellent use of kleenex  Janne
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Hi Ron,
What a great song! The KISS method is often the best way to go. It certainly works nicely here.
You picked the perfect RTs for this. Pretty dang good vocal, too! The driving guitar beats keeps the intensity without becoming boring or over-the-top. That's not always an easy concept to pull off - yet you did it perfectly here.
A sad song that's not soapy - terrific!
It all works - perfectly. Great song - great listen.
Alan Thank you, Alan! Harder (for me) to do a barebones arrangement, but...it had to be done. Glad I didn't mess it up and you enjoyed the listen!!
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So much to Love here.
LOVE your vocals!
Love the originality of the lyric. So Fresh, slightly-quirky, SO original.
Love the Sound of those Drums! (and how they are added)
The guitars sound great. And Interesting.
Love the Production.
Music-Making worth crowing about.
fj
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THat has a very cool groove. 80's pop that would fit on a play list with the Cars and others like that.
Nice stuff Thanks, Herb! I do SO love the Cars...
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Ron, a perfect example of less is more.
Outstanding vocal and lyrics.
Super groove with the perfect backing tracks.
IMHO this is one if not your best to date; it is hard to judge as you have so many excellent songs.
Loved it Thank you, Mario! So glad you liked the tune.
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Ron,
This is a great listen.
The lyrics, the music, your singing and production all fit together like a hand in a glove.
Everything worked really well for me.
Another fine effort!
--Noel
MY SONGS...Audiophile BIAB 2025
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I enjoyed this song - the vocals are great - but for some reason I had in my imagination a doctor and nurse scenario! "Surely you jest" No, I kept getting a double meaning from "get it off your chest"! Chay, glad you enjoyed the tune! The lyricist does like to play with ambiguity, and has been known to hide an Easter Egg in a lyric. Sometimes I'm aware of the story behind the lyric, but usually not. If I ask what the lyric about he'll sometimes tell, but often he'll just ask what it means to me. If I tell him he'll usually just respond, "that's cool". So...to my knowledge there is not a doctor/nurse scenario. But if that's what it means to you, I think that's cool. Glad you got that off of your chest.
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Wow, super vocal! I'd love to know your vocal chain. The rhyme and melody could've been sing-songy, but the way you sang elevated it. I do like the last note. Well done on all fronts. Thank you, Rob! Sometimes I'll stare at a lyric and think there couldn't possibly be a cool sounding song in there, but I'm usually wrong. It is a fun process to work through though. Glad you liked the tune!
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The intro is very good, with a lovely sound. Staying in this minimalist style really highlights the song and the vocals. A very good song.
Laurent Thanks, Laurent. Was torn on how to arrange this one (might still be) but chose the bare bones arrangement for the reasons you listed. The intro is just the strummed acoustic guitar panned slightly left. A send on the acoustic goes to a plate reverb panned hard right and just loud enough to give a gentle stereo image. Glad you liked it!
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You keep writing and producing music that I love to listen to. I hope you continue with being a vocalist. You sound good. Outstanding instrumentation choices and production. Echos of Fountains of Wayne.
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Hi Ron,
Very much a Cars vibe happening on this one. Excellent vocal! And really well written lyrics. Nice!
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This is beautiful Ron. The vocal is outstanding. Your vocals just keep getting better and better.
Lyric is superb as always, and I love the simplicity of the arrangement. Might be great for sync. Has the movie feel. Thank you, David. Have to thank you (again) for the "sing it softer" tip from the previous song. Tried it again on this one and liked the way it worked with the lyric. Hey, who sez you can't teach an old dog a new trick?? Of course at this point, I could be forgetting an old trick and just THINK it's new. Fun either way!
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“R.W. Davis: Lyrics Me: Music, arrangement, vocals, guitars, mix, master, kleenex AI: Still no” Love the Kleenex mention and the AI status. Your vocal is great and the phrasing accentuates the sadness in in lyric well. And a well written lyric it is. It sounds like you’re in the same room with us. The open mix with the great sparse band makes it even more intimate. The soundstage it sets up on our monitor is excellent. For us it’s reminiscent of some Neal Young but also of Jeff Tweedy. Great production! J&B
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Hi, Ron. Good song, but the vocal guitar is what makes it for me. Nice work! Thanks, David! Not 100% sure I know what a "vocal guitar" is but I think it MUST be a compliment. Glad you enjoyed the song! This is a true pop diamond, one of the most intimate songs I have heard for a long time. It's difficult to even find words to describe how good this song is. The lyrics are heart-wrenching - "you're pulling my strings/like I'm your puppet/I'm not a puppet". And the chorus is really really strong, one you can really be proud of. Great idea to use such a small band, it gives room for your excellent vocal performance and the raw emotion in your voice, even sibilants belong there. The guitars sound fantastic. I love the minor chord at the end of the chorus, true highlight (or lowlight in a positive sense). And excellent use of kleenex Janne Thank you, Janne! Yeah, such a cool lyric (not mine). What I love most about the lyric are all the things implied but not revealed, so the listener's imagination (and experience, perhaps) is essential to complete the story. Thanks for the in depth review, so glad you liked the song!
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So much to Love here.
LOVE your vocals!
Love the originality of the lyric. So Fresh, slightly-quirky, SO original.
Love the Sound of those Drums! (and how they are added)
The guitars sound great. And Interesting.
Love the Production.
Music-Making worth crowing about.
fj THANKS, Floyd! Y'know, there was a time that "slightly-quirky" would have felt like an insult, but now I'm proud to own that. Glad you enjoyed the tune, even the vocals.
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