Stay Here Now
https://www.johnwalradt.com/music/songs/stayherenow-collins2022mar.mp3

This is a song about how I spent a year waiting for Lora to come to Phoenix from Portland. At 49, I finally got to be married. When I recorded it with Band in a Box, I wanted a Carpenters feel...it's like the Carpenters meet America. I hired Clay Collins on FiveRR to do vocals. I released it on Broadjam. In one month from February to March, 2021, it raced up the charts and went to #1 Earth for two weeks.

Except for the MIDI string sections, all the instrument tracks are with Band in a Box. I used Studio One 6 to mix and master.

Would you like to spend the hours beside me
I will if you will stay here now
Let the days go into years together
I will if you will stay here now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.

Spending hours on the phone to hear you
It wraps me like a blanket now
A glass of wine, a book, a soft light
If you could be beside me now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.

I’ve been staring out the window
Sunlight sweeps across the floor
I don’t have very much to show you
But together we can find much more
So much more.

If you would spend the hours beside me
I will if you will stay here now
Let the days go into years forever
I will if you will stay here now
No, no, no, I cannot take another day
With you a thousand miles away
When you come back let me hear you say
That you will stay here now.