[PROLOGUE] [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Concert grand alone; gentle G-B-A-G hook over rolled blues chords.) [ROXI]: (Speak close; smoky, affectionate.) Somebody put a record on. And here we are. One last song, you beautiful troublemakers. [INTRO] [JILL]: (Electric bass; warm two-bar walking riff, late pickup.) [MILFRED]: (Hybrid drum kit; loose 88 BPM shuffle, soft snare.) [LIZ]: (C diatonic harmonica in G; bend the hook, then leave space.) [ROXI]: (Electric guitar; clean blues double-stops between phrases.) [VERSE 1] [ROXI]: (Clean English rap; internal rhymes, conversational swing.) Needle in the groove, little shiver in the speaker, Kitchen-table drummer with a teaspoon for a beater. A dad talks through the verse, gets drowned by the chorus— Somebody put a record on long before us. Now the strangers trade names in the spaces between; You've been half in that coat since a quarter past green. Give the sleeve a fucking microphone—look how it's swinging! You were ready to leave, but your elbow kept singing. [CHORUS] [ROXI]: (Sing clear Irish; warm rising melody, G-B-A-G hook.) Táimid anseo, le chéile. Is libh an t-amhrán seo. Táimid anseo, le chéile. Is libh an oíche seo. [CROWD]: (Adult audience echoes the first line in unison.) Táimid anseo, le chéile! [VERSE 2] [MILFRED]: (Keep the shuffle quiet; leave the dense rap exposed.) [LIZ]: (Stop harmonica.) [ROXI]: (Double-time clean rap; each long line spans two bars. Guitar rests.) Kitchen percussion to concert production, a crooked connection from cups to the snare; A record in rotation, a whole generation discovering somebody else had been there. Half in a coat with a throat full of notes, one more minute suspended somewhere in the air; Give me the stumbles, the mumbles, the chuckles—the beautiful trouble of all of you here. [ROXI]: (Speak slowly; pause afterward.) Thank you for the room you made for us. [OPERATIC WINDOW] [JILL]: (One low G; damp completely.) [MILFRED]: (Stop kit.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Piano alone beneath the voices; broaden the hook, follow their breathing.) [FEMALE GUEST]: (Sing in Irish; rounded, ringing operatic legato, original melody.) Táimid anseo, le chéile. Is libh an t-amhrán seo. [ROXI]: (On the next repeat, sing low counterpoint; guitar silent.) Is libh an oíche seo. [FEMALE GUEST]: (Repeat above Roxi's counterpoint; resolve together.) Táimid anseo, le chéile. [THE OPEN SKY] [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (Start programmed synth arpeggio of the hook and wide pad; play broad piano chords.) [MILFRED]: (Sixteen bars at 176 BPM; electronic four-on-floor kick, live snare. Straight double-time.) [JILL]: (Restore bass riff with straight pickups for sixteen bars.) [ROXI]: (Electric guitar chugs; sing broadly for bars one to eight.) Táimid anseo, le chéile. Is libh an t-amhrán seo. [FEMALE GUEST]: (With Roxi, sing upper counterpoint for eight bars, then stop.) Is libh an oíche seo. [CROWD]: (Bars nine to sixteen: answer twice, four bars per phrase.) Táimid anseo, le chéile! Táimid anseo, le chéile! [LAST BLUES] [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (After sixteen bars, stop synth sequence; return to quiet piano at 88 BPM.) [MILFRED]: (Electronic kick off; four bars of soft live shuffle, then stop.) [JILL]: (Same four bars: late bass pickups; end on low G, damp.) [LIZ]: (Same four bars: original harmonica hook, finish softly; stop.) [ROXI]: (Same four bars: one guitar bend, resolve and mute.) [SEPHYR-GLEN]: (End bar four: soft piano G chord; pedal up, let it fade.) [CROWD]: (After all instruments fade, sing alone once, softly; stop.) Táimid anseo, le chéile. [ROXI]: (Speak alone; soft and affectionate.) Go raibh míle maith agaibh. Oíche mhaith, a chairde. [END]
