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about
“One-Gether” is part of the album-in-the-making, “Sounds Like Home”. All songs on “Sounds Like Home” are created using ordinary objects I found in my home and repurposed into musical instruments.
On “One-Gether” I played rice can shaker, coffee can shaker, small glass jars, acoustic guitars, acoustic fretless bass guitar, cajon, kalimba, melodica, wind chimes, and mouth harps.
The song title was inspired by a word that the kid of Gaijinmommy (www.gaijinmommy.com) invented; more about that here: babumenos.com#2022-11-29
Gaijinmommy also allowed me to use one of her fabulous Tokyo-by-night photographs for my cover artwork. Find many more of her truly great photos on her Twitter channel: twitter.com/GaijinMommy
lyrics
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Today I wanna be one-gether
On my own, not to-gether
’cause on my own I’ll know whether
All my solo moves matter now
Today I’d rather be one-gether
Than two-, three-, four-, six-, nine-gether
’cause while I’m being one-gether
I’ll be my best and feel better now
I’ll be counting bycicles
I’ll be melting icicles
I’ll be giggling, grass tickles
I will close my eyes
Today I wanna be one-gether
Today I’d rather be one-gether
Today I wanna be one-gether
Not three-, not six-, not twelve-gether
I want to clean my wing feathers
To see if they will spread better now
Today I’d rather be one-gether
Not hundred-seventeen-gether
’cause while I can’t be one-gether
I feel like I must run better now
I’ll be planting sunflowers
I’ll be painting night hours
I’ll be taking cold showers
I will close my eyes
Today I wanna be one-gether
Today I’d rather be one-gether
Tomorrow maybe ain’t one-gether
’cause you come to be to-gether
And while we’re being to-gether
It might feel like I’m way better then
I’m sometimes better when one-gether
And sometimes when we’re to-gether
Sometimes three-, four-, six-, nine-gether
Is what I need to feel better then
We’ll be singing to-gether
We’ll be playing three-gether
We’ll be laughing nine-gether
All with open eyes, but
Today I wanna be one-gether
Today I’d rather be one-gether
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credits
released November 11, 2022
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