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One​-​Gether

by Babu Menos

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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
Music, lyrics, all instruments, sounds, and vocals: Babu Menos.

Cover artwork based on a photo by Gaijinmommy (gaijinmommy.com)
Cover artwork fonts Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky (github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat#readme, SIL Open Font License) and DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936 by Peter Wiegel (peter-wiegel.de, freeware)

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Babu Menos

Babu Menos is a musician (composer and lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and singer), writer, smart-ass, idler, and former traveller — amidst this climate catastrophe, one cannot travel in good conscience anymore.

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Lee Soo Hyun via Unsplash (unsplash.com/photos/black-and-grey-drum-set-8-psfJaqbnI)
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