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In The Corner At Parties

from Homecooked: Songs From FAWM 2013 by TA Walker

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Considering how much I used it during 50/90 2012, perhaps it's surprising that song 7 of FAWM 2013 for me, is the first one during this year's event that I've written, arranged and recorded entirely in Garageband on the iPhone. ("The Future" was part-recorded in GB, but hey...) Aside from a "CR78" loop from FunkBox, it's GB all the way here, including the rhythm guitar track (it's real guitar, just amp-modelled in GB).

In case you wondered, the synth parts are mostly either the GB "smart keyboard" (one touch chords), arpeggiator, or both, though the "pad" is a real keyboard. As with most of my songs this time, I mixed the song in Logic Pro, as the FX options are far greater than in GB on the iPhone.

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Not much good at bowling
Down the gutter, every time
The others get the beers in
I nurse my Coke and lime

[chorus]
That's me in the corner at parties
Wonder why I bother showing up

Not quite a wow with ladies
Eye-contact, distant dream
Got a girlfriend with my pension
That's just the way it seems

That's me in the corner at parties
Wonder why I bother showing up

[bridge]
Then one fateful night, I dropped a contact lens
Crawling round a dance-floor - so this is how it ends
I thought
But guess who gave it back to me - she was a shy one too
We'd gone to the same parties, with never the same view

That's not us in the corner at parties
And you know we're glad we bothered showing up that night

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from Homecooked: Songs From FAWM 2013, released March 4, 2013
TA Walker - vocal, Garageband and rhythm programming, electric guitar, keyboard

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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