Now is it my turn, or his turn? Both, as it turns out. His turn to sing, but I wrote the song. This is the only song on the album not sung by its author. He just wouldn't let me. It was a good call.
My whimsical epic, at almost 7 minutes long, featuring the Armistice Guitar Orchestra at the end, is I think the best song I've ever written. Like a couple of my other tunes, its actual name is often dispensed with and it's become affectionately known as "Panda Girl" - I got the concept from an ex-GF a long, long time ago who, having forgotten to take her (mascara-heavy) makeup off one evening, caught sight of herself in the mirror in the morning, was horrified, and said "Panda girl, unacceptable!" and promptly locked herself in the bathroom and cleaned her face. And much later I turned that idea into a song about gently teasing your (female) friend about her recent relationship break up, as a way of cheering her up. Fictional. I'd never dare do such a thing ...
All of those guitar lines you'll hear at the end were played live, and repeated, via a looper, on an acoustic guitar going through a multi-effect pedal, so with a bit of distortion, echo etc. We'd watch people enter the room where there were just two guys with acoustic guitars and see them do a double take and wonder how just two guys with acoustic guitars could make all this glorious noise. I loved doing this song.
R never really learned the middle 8, as it has weird chords, so I'd big it up with delay and he'd pretend to be playing something... :lollerI did it live earlier in the year, solo, with the looper, then at the end, had everything playing at once, put the guitar down, grabbed the mike and jumped down off the stage and sang from the audience - jeez that felt good.
It gave everyone a surprise. I have it on vid somewhere. Anyway - me on everything except the lead vocal which is R. Did the full drum replacement, sharpened the bass, lots of tidying up, pulled up a harmony line I omitted from the original. Made the (also replaced) piano more prominent, where it appears.
New version based on various bits of feedback:
Orig:
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