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I might be warming up, turn me over
But the spinning wheels are stuck, on the shoulder
I lost the day
In a trade I lost my soul to the devil
In a fair enough bargain, it's on the level
For the pay
While I stare at brakelight eyes…
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I’m not the bigger person
I’m not the wise old sage
I just want to dig my trenches
And leave at end of days
I’m not your dictionary
I’m no Rosetta Stone
I’m not your post to lean on
It’s true you’re on your own
Not gonna wait around…
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Let’s get closer, complicated
Burn the sunlight, watch it fading
While we’re dancing to the radio
In my memory I can smell you
Cloves and daisies, in your bedroom
Lauren Hill is on the stereo
With time and space, nothing to hold but…
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On any other day than this I might recall, the words to make you feel better
and spin the waves of the record known by heart
I’ve tried to fool myself to sleep so many nights I fear I may never wake up
A moonlight trance
I drank the drink…
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Lost in the dark, feeling for the walls, I hear an echoing
Cutting so sharp, I seem to lose my balance, and fall from the universe
An alien sun
Polaris makes the mark
So hang your aching head upon the morning star
Its shines upon the…
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I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I can knock it down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I can knock it down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I cannot get down
I can knock 'em down
I can knock it off
I cannot get down
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Throw it away
Throw it away
Murder your darlings and make a break you can’t
Keep them all hanging round this place
We all know an ending’s never a waste
Take it away
Take it away
What’s so special it can’t be safe and we
Felt the loss…
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girls y'all stop running to me alright
i'm taken and i'm so up tight
this ring shoudld let you know by it's shine
if you can't see the glow go find
let me first tell you she's great
she's bumping all over the state
she springing my anaconda…
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Well I felt much better than yesterday
And I won't say nothing
But you can't give all this time away
Give me a break
Please say something
But a forced word's not worth much today
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i’m living in flub city
my baby she’s got no pity
cuz basically no one will hear me
an empty grave is what i’m talking about
did i leave a mark? would it give me a spark like frankenstein’s monster?
i’m living in flub city
my baby she…
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We stumbled upon some recordings from years ago. Sheehan made something fantastic with them.
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headed out - the night was new
took a minute; taking two
and it felt like you could make a few
long walks
but no one knew the route
there ran a stretch all dense with trees
along a field; we stood beneath
and in the leaves we saw
a…
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I won’t fight (this) no more
I’ll acknowledge the score
I will get on that floor (right)
And get down
Get down on it
I won’t hide no more
I will run through that door
Then you’ll see what’s in store (right)
And get down
Get down on…
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Wildfire - neighbors to the north
See them as they flee
Wildfire - smoke that falls upon
All our city streets, that’s you and me
Wildfire - burning hot again
In the springtime breeze
Wildfire - are you ready for it
As it makes a comeback…
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i won’t deny
i was afraid
what kind of lie
what kind of fate
all the unknowns
push them away
what can you write
what can you say
can you go and tell to someone
how my life’s now broken bottles
can we come back all of a sudden…
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smile - nod my head
emphatic agreement
i want you to know this team is my bag
please don’t take this earnestness
to be a fake, a ploy, a way
to get ahead
Costs nothing for me to smile
Costs nothing for me to shake
Let this sincere…
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give me a love with a heart that’s beating
give you my all as the world is reeling
hear what i say, don’t assume my feeling
coming to you with my hopes up kneeling
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Gather round, praise the sound
As the dark one comes
There no surprise, plays both sides
Preying on the dumb
It’s our greatest fear, no lesser evil here
All is done
Spreading wings, darker things
Await everyone
No need to dial it down…
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Into the wind I felt it
Let her in
Past all the scenes I sold
In fewer words the motives
Can’t begin
They’re always pacing pacing
And I’m looking for a red eye
And my train’s not coming round
And I can’t defend tonight
I gotta take…
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February projects into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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(very rough sketch) Ouch these hurt! Trying to refine probably 120 song threads across 5 multi hour long RPM February ProTools project files into anything valid to post is overwhelming!
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RPM. Month of concessions. I had lots of ideas, and they all seemed to fall apart. Time was not in abundance. Glad this was a leap year, for me to squeeze this out in a few hours after work.
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A sea shanty that I wrote for the collaborative "Mayors" project. Featuring Jarrett Osborn on drums.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 20 becomes finished song number 20. Fitting, eh?
This one isn't going to make the final album. It's okay but I think there are at least 10 songs better this year. Oh well. I'm too tired to care. 2.5 hours…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 14 becomes finished song number 19.
Fmajor7 to Eminor7. I use that change a lot. I used it as the entire basis of this song. It didn't really work. This one doesn't do much for me. It's okay, but it's not…
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Built an Omri Cohen patch idea in VCV Rack, recorded a couple of takes, then edited and arranged the results in Reaper.
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VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!
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Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.
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VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!
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Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 13 becomes finished song number 18.
I like this one. It's kinda bouncy and fun. The melody is better than my usual crap too. A little bit better at least.
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Custom. Leads are…
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The mischievous hungry tech pirates at it again.
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That satisfactory feeling after all the hard work is done.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 16 becomes finished song number 17.
This one will make the album, I think. I kinda like it even though I am sure I have written this exact song about 100 times before. Oh well. It has a nice 6/8 groove…
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Toward the end of the month, I (Kevin) got a wild hair to try something silly with Robbie’s sweet little acoustic ditty about the cycle of the seasons, which lets us end the album on a sweet and hopeful note. Hope you like it!
Robbie Robinson…
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Everything was recorded live off the floor except the harmony vocal track, which was added a couple of weeks later.
Margaret Bibb – lyrics, songwriting, vocals
Robbie Robinson – guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, bass, mixing
These Old Boots…
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Another lovely Monroe/Robinson collaboration. This one was recorded piecemeal across the whole month of February 2024, with Robbie adding the guitar lead on 2/29 while I (Kevin) was doing the final(-ish) mixes!
Leum Monroe – lyrics
Robbie…
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This short track also spawned from Robbie’s “E Rock Jam”, though in a more roundabout way than Sugar Free Jam earlier on the album.
On 2/17, we recorded John’s drum tracks for the full 5-minute song, then got a take of Cody playing keys along…
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This one was kind of a scatter-shot collaboration. Robbie was playing around with the guitar riff before band practice one night, so Kenny and I (Kevin) joined in on vocals and drums, respectively. Robbie recorded that jam, then fleshed out the…
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Another Monroe-Robinson collaboration. So glad Kenny brought those two together a few years ago!
As with a few other tracks this time around, Robbie recorded his parts on his own, then we replaced the canned GarageBand drum loops with actual…
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I'll leave it to the listener to decide if it's more of a bonus to listen to this track or skip it. This is more of the didgeridoo/Otamatone/Stylophone session.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024…
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The idea for this one came to Margaret as she was walking to the studio for band practice one night, and we’re glad it did!
Margaret, Robbie, and I (Kevin) recorded the main takes together live off the floor during our usual band practice timeslot…
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I was hoping for more background noise, to be honest. I even went out and recorded just some background noise to mix it in. This is the epitome of "phoning it in".
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the…
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Robbie put together a 5-minute track (“E Rock Jam”) that was meant to feature a bunch of guitar leads from various folks and maybe some vocals, but the timing never quite worked out to get those laid down. We did, however, record some of John…
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The title pretty much says it all. I recently got a Theremini, and this is me trying to figure it out.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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This one was quite a journey!
Robbie recorded the main guitar parts and a couple of vocal takes on his own, then invited the group to come up with additional parts. On 2/17, after we’d finished up recording a bunch of other stuff (including…
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Ok, not really a djembe, just a plate, but I needed the alliteration for the song title.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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Just Leum and an acoustic guitar. Sometimes, that’s all you need. :)
Leum Monroe – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, mixing
Our Surprise
by Leum Monroe
Would I stand near the ocean just to hear your cry…
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Robbie’s ode to a favorite vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording, arrangement
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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This is me and two friends goofing around a campfire with a travel didgeridoo, Otamatone, and Stylophone.
©2024 by Geekido Music (Chris Cooke). All rights reserved. Recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
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As February and the RPM Challenge approached, Margaret was surprised to find herself gravitating toward country music this time around, but she rolled with it and finished the lyrics in time for us to lay down some scratch tracks on 2/10. Over…
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I needed to keep the streak alive.
15 years of RPM.
But life has been in the way. Considerably. It's not worth getting into, but music is currently so far down the priority list it's not even funny.
But I found time on the 28th to…
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It's a b-side song for RPM 2024, mostly because I needed a second song in order to create a playlist here.
I need a b-side songs for the flip side
A b-side song to prove that I tried
To put in the effort, to get things done
To try to…
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I like the word "Shellac" so I made a song about shellac, that's it. For this one I decided to play my old broken trash-picked drum kit instead of using MIDI drums. I spent about a week trying to fix that snare and if anything it sounds worse…
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I'm wishing someone can go for a ride
I'm wishing, I'm wishing you well
I've got something that's growing inside
I'm hoping, I'm hoping I'm well
we got no backbone
we got no soul
we've got no back-up plan
no one can know
why you go rushing…
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she's got a confident way of talking
knows where she's going when she walks
her fashion sense is never shocking
but it says "she's a boss"
it says "she's on top"
there is no question she can't answer
whether it's secular or trife
she…
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mixin' up a little bit of something special
want to make you feel like we're in this together
it'll make you larger than life
from my pocket, roll the dice
it suggests just what the next step is
and knowing this makes me better
throw…
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don't ask me out to a movie
cause i'm not gonna go
don't tell me you're having a party
cause i already know
it's an 80's theme
i saw it in my stream
but i didn't accept or decline
i just said maybe
and maybe means no
maybe always means…
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looking through the backwoods
I heard that motor start
I knew that you were leaving but I knew not very far
coming up the driveway I knew it was my chance
running through the backwoods
we'll meet by happenstance
looking at my kingdom which…
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my vision's blurry round the opening of your mouth
and i'm not so sure it's sound that's coming out
just take the time to form the consonants and vowels
cause i'm not a lip reader
never learned how
not for lack of wanting
mistaken vocab…
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as far as I can remember
you ruined November
was a weather system I suppose
you wanted the best of me
in a penitentiary
where there's no forgiveness
I don't know
if November's light would stay up past 5
well then I wouldn't mind…
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one of the batch I made for this year's RPM. The ending veers into G-Funk territory. The bassline reminds me of the heavy part in *Sunburn Vs. The Rhinovirus*
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lo-fi kinda thing ripped from a sample of the Green Hornet radio show
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I place a dust sheet over chairs
Where we would sit, hold each other tenderly
No need to dwell on it
No need to dwell here for long
It feels like time has moved
Where we spilt wine and paint all on carpet tessellations
Conversations empty…
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I think that I'm
Incapable of thought
I craft and work
As that's what I've been taught
But see no joy in Rothko or Matisse
Their brushstrokes leave me cold
A value you can't teach
Teach me to feel pain
Teach me how to love
I think that…
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This will be about grief
This will be about love
This will be about missing you
Will be about love
This will be 'bout you being gone
I've sung this before
This will be 'bout me moving on
I've clung tight to this before
I don't need release…
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A Cold War Love Story 93bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
Words by AI and Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially…
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Message Unseen 120bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
Words by AI and Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially…
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Just a short little ditty to celebrate FAWM '24! I had a great time!! I hope all my FAWM family did as well!!
#acoustic_one_take #singer_songwriter
Lyrics
Tell me a rhyme
Play me a song
Make it happy
oh, just not too long
Give me…
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Formular RPM 120bpm
Music © 2024 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2024 especially for the RMP Challange 2024. It is part of a three track…
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This was created for fun with as an RPM Challenge album collaboration with a students in my HS music class. Shout outs to Tyler and Nazir!!!
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 15 becomes finished song number 16.
This one is okay. Better than most of the garbage I've piled up this year. I think it will make the final album, but it's sort of on the bubble. I'll bury it in the middle…
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This is a track that is unapologetically scary and unsettling.
Combination of synths and orchestral instruments, some noises...no drums or percussion.
Don't listen alone in the dark.... You have been warned......
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number 17 becomes finished song number 15.
I tried to be screwy and make the verses the more developed section than the chorus. Just for something different. There are vocal harmonies in the verses but not in the chorus…
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The Pads of Paddington is a set of 2 pieces (this being the 2nd one). I took inspiration from train sounds/noises.
For this second piece, I used actual recordings of train sounds made by me with my faithful Zoom H1 recorder.
For this piece…
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The Pads of Paddington is a set of 2 pieces (this being the first one). I took inspiration from train sounds/noises although the "pads" of Paddington should technically be called the "drones" of Paddington - however, I am sure you understand the…
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Recorded in 2004, in an old cabin in rural NC. I don’t know why the fake accent.
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Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR. This was meant to be the backing track for a more complete song, of which all I can remember is the line “All I want to do / Is get stoned and read Harper’s”.
Recorded in an airstream trailer.
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Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR, in an Airstream trailer I lived in for a summer. I barely had electricity so it’s a miracle I even got this much recorded.
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Recorded in Denver in 2002. I sound like I’m pitching a song to Bread, but I don’t know how I would have liked that comment at the time.
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Recorded in Denver in 2002, but I don’t remember it.
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Recorded in Denver in 2001, then promptly forgotten.
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Recorded in 2001. The notes on the tape case say Moab.
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Recorded in 2001 in an empty apartment in Mesa AZ. The drum kit is a cardboard box and a tambourine. The guitar is an acoustic and I’m sure I had to do some workaround to get it to sound like this.
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