[PERFORMANCE NOTES | 58 BPM | SLOW VINTAGE HONKY-TONK COUNTRY-SOUL BALLAD] [ONE FEMALE LEAD | USE SUPPLIED FEMALE VOICE | PRESERVE NATURAL VOCAL IDENTITY] [WARM MATURE TONE | CLOSE INTIMATE PHRASING | CLEAR DICTION | CONTROLLED EMOTION] [GENTLE NATURAL VIBRATO ON SUSTAINED ENDINGS | NEVER BELT] [ONLY THREE INSTRUMENTS | WARM TENOR SAX + PEDAL STEEL + VERY SOFT UPRIGHT BASS] [NO PIANO | NO DRUMS | NO GUITAR] [SAX = BREATHY, LOW, LYRIC ANSWERS | NEVER JAZZY OR BUSY] [PEDAL STEEL = SLOW COUNTRY CRIES + BENDS | NEVER COMPETE WITH SAX] [VERSES MOSTLY SOLO | LEAD ALWAYS DOMINANT] [CHORUSES | CLOSE 3-PART FEMALE COUNTRY HARMONY | WARM HUMAN BLEND] [FINAL CHORUS | SELECTIVE 4-PART FEMALE HARMONY | NEVER CHOIR-LIKE] [NO SPOKEN WORDS | ALL LYRICS SUNG] [INTRO | 8 BARS | SOLO TENOR SAX | WARM BREATHY LOW REGISTER | SIMPLE LONELY MELODY | LOTS OF SPACE] [VERSE 1 | LEAD + VERY SOFT SAX ANSWERS | BASS ENTERS SPARINGLY | NO STEEL YET] If the road gets long and lonely And you don't know where to go..... just remember...... wherever that road may take you.... I'll be waiting here for you...... [SAX GIVES ONE SOFT FALLING RESPONSE] [VERSE 2 | LEAD + BASS | PEDAL STEEL ENTERS WITH ONE SLOW ANSWER | SAX REMAINS SPARSE] If the night feels like forever.... and you can't see your way through...... just remember...... morning always finds the darkness.... and I'll be waiting here for you..... [ONE LOW FEMALE HARMONY BLOOMS ON FINAL "YOU"] [CHORUS | LEAD DOMINANT | CLOSE 3-PART FEMALE COUNTRY HARMONY | SAX + STEEL ALTERNATE ANSWERS] I'll be waiting here for you.... [SOFT 3-PART HARMONY BLOOM] no matter where you go...... no matter how far you wander.... [HIGH HARMONY FLOATS ABOVE LEAD] there's one thing you should know...... if the whole world turns against you.... and you don't know what to do...... there's always somewhere you belong.... [RICH CLOSE 3-PART HARMONY SUSTAINS "BELONG"] I'll be waiting here for you...... [HARMONIES RESOLVE | ONE QUIET PEDAL-STEEL CRY] [BRIDGE | BASS DROPS OUT | LEAD + PEDAL STEEL | SAX SILENT | DEEP SPACE] And if you think you've wandered.... too far to make it home...... I'll leave a light on for you.... ( light on for you...) so you'll never walk alone...... (walk alone...) [STEEL FALLS GENTLY INTO SILENCE] [VERSE 3 | LEAD + FAINT BASS | SAX RETURNS WITH SHORT BREATHY ANSWERS] If you ever need somebody.... you know what you have to do...... just remember...... wherever this old world may take you.... I'll be waiting here for you...... [INSTRUMENTAL | 20 SECONDS | TENOR SAX SINGS CHORUS MELODY | PEDAL STEEL ANSWERS EACH PHRASE] [SAX PHRASE - SPACE - STEEL RESPONSE | NEVER PLAY BUSY TOGETHER] [BASS VERY SOFT | NO VOCALS | END WITH SAX NOTE FADING INTO SILENCE] [BRIDGE 2 | LEAD RETURNS ALMOST EXPOSED | STEEL VERY SPARSE | SAX SILENT] And if someday you're wondering.... if I still feel the same...... you'll see that light still burning.... [ONE SOFT FEMALE HARMONY ON "BURNING"] and hear me call your name...... [3-PART HARMONY OPENS GENTLY ON "NAME"] [FINAL CHORUS | EMOTIONAL PEAK | LEAD DOMINANT | SELECTIVE 4-PART FEMALE COUNTRY HARMONY] I'll be waiting here for you.... [HARMONIES BLOOM AROUND LEAD] no matter where you go...... no matter how far you wander.... [HIGH + LOW HARMONIES MOVE AROUND LEAD] there's one thing you should know...... if the whole world turns against you.... and you don't know what to do...... there's always somewhere you belong.... [FULL WARM HARMONY SUSPENSION ON "BELONG"] I'll be waiting here for you...... (waiting here...) [HARMONIES HOLD | SAX + STEEL EACH GIVE ONE RESTRAINED RESPONSE] [OUTRO | BASS FADES OUT | SAX DROPS OUT | LEAD + VERY SOFT PEDAL STEEL] Wherever this old world may take you.... wherever you may roam...... I'll be waiting here for you.... (waiting here...) I'll leave the light on...... (leave the light on...) [STEEL BENDS SOFTLY THEN STOPS | COMPLETE SPACE] till you come home...... [LEAD BEGINS "HOME" EXPOSED | CLOSE FEMALE HARMONIES BLOOM UNDER HELD NOTE | SUSPEND THEN RESOLVE] [VOICES FADE | SILENCE | TENOR SAX RETURNS ALONE WITH ONE SOFT FINAL PHRASE BASED ON "I'LL BE WAITING HERE FOR YOU"]
