/ *** /// [Intro: Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano alone, fingerpicked acoustic guitar joins, gluey pitch-bending string loop fades in low, no drums] [Selmer Mark VI tenor sax: one long breathy subtone note, reed audible, slow vibrato, then silence] [Verse 1: close-mic, hushed, languid, sung behind the beat, softened consonants, stretched vowels, dry low chest voice] I know there's two of you, I've known it for a while One of you walks in first, and wears the easy smile She's good at the table, good with strangers, good at the day I like her fine, I'll say it, I'd never send her away [Verse 2: same hush, more air on the line ends, clean electric shimmer enters low] But the one I mean is the one who flinches, the one who fades The one who asks me what I think, and waits for what I say The one who comes off at the water when the color's gone away That's the one who was always enough, and I'll say it every day [Pre-Chorus: vocal tightens without getting louder, restrained trembling vibrato, brushed drums enter soft, strings rising slowly] Nobody counts who's absent, nobody looks that low But I do, and I always did, and I think you know [Chorus: mellow lift, breathy not belted, soft falsetto on the long vowels, strings open, bass carries the lift, drums stay brushed] At the end of the night, when the color comes down When the room goes quiet, and nobody's around They toast the one who's steady, they never think to So I'm askin', how are you doin' [Vocal drops to almost spoken, no lift] Not her, I mean you [Selmer Mark VI tenor sax: short breathy answer phrase, smoky, then out] [Verse 3: arrangement pulls back to Yamaha CFX grand piano and acoustic guitar only, close-mic, almost spoken, dry] I've got one of those too, don't think that I don't He runs the room, he laughs on time, he'll say the things I won't He's the rebel with a clue, he always knows what to do But when it's you, he steps aside, and it's the rebel without a clue [Pre-Chorus: vocal tightens, brushed drums return, strings rising, sustained Selmer Mark VI tenor sax held low underneath] Nobody sees it, nobody needs to, it's nobody's to see It's the quiet thing we never say, and we say it, you and me [Chorus: mellow lift, breathy, soft falsetto on the long vowels, Selmer Mark VI tenor sax answering between the lines, reed and breath audible] At the end of the night, when the color comes down When the room goes quiet, and nobody's around They love the one who's talkin', they never think to So I'm askin', how are you doin' [Vocal drops to almost spoken] I know who I'm talkin' to [Instrumental Break: restrained Selmer Paris Mark VI tenor saxophone solo, breathy subtone, slow legato, smoky, slow vibrato, no fast runs, Yamaha CFX grand piano and strings underneath, drums brushed, live studio room] [Bridge: arrangement pulls back, kick and bass low and steady, Yamaha CFX grand piano chording, vocal close and almost spoken, no sax] Two of you, two of me, four of us in any room Yours takes the stairs, mine takes the floor, they can have the afternoon But when we lay down and turn it over, the day, the night, whatever it was There's only two of us left in the dark [Voice thins into soft falsetto] And the dark knows who we are [Selmer Mark VI tenor sax: one long mournful breathy phrase rising under the last word] [Final Chorus: fuller but still mellow, warmth instead of force, strings full and hazy, clean electric shimmering, open falsetto cracked but unafraid, Selmer Mark VI tenor sax weaving between lines] At the end of the night, when the color comes down When the room goes quiet, and nobody's around I'll ask it every night, till you know that I do How are you doin' [Vocal drops to almost spoken, arrangement holds] Not her, I mean you [Outro: Yamaha CFX grand piano and acoustic guitar only, vocal nearly breath, layered wordless falsetto low, Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone carries the melody all the way out, breathy long tones, slow vibrato, analog haze, no drums, long slow fade] How are you doin' I like them both, but I'm askin' you How are you doin' [Voice thins into falsetto] I know who I'm talkin' to [Selmer Mark VI tenor sax: long sustained subtone note holding under the fade, breath audible at the end] [End][Long fade,, final Selmer Mark VI tenor sax: long sustained subtone note holding under the fade]
