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I wrote song 32 of the 50/90 Challenge in response to the week 10 challenge ("animal") - its star is Sunny, one of our two guinea pigs. I have always felt a bit closer to him than to his adoptive brother Harry, as I brought Sunny home from the pet shop, and in a strange way I feel as if I understand him better...

I recorded the demo solo to stereo with the guitalele in my car this lunchtime, and of the eight or so takes, the demo presented was the only complete one. It has a few mistakes - a wrong chord in the first verse, and occasional vocal flubs (including a wrong word in another verse) - but the demo shows the way the song would "go" if I were to re-record it.

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And the skies here are safe
No condors hunt you here
The garden where you skip
No longer holds a fear
For you

When I pick you up
And try to read your face
Imagine what you'd say
If words could just replace
Your squeaks

[chorus]
A salad bowl - your banquet
A pile of hay - your blanket
A garden - your world to roam
A cosy lounge - your home

Each time you watch TV
You look like it's the first
Eyes gaze up amazed
The screen lights up your fur
You see

And sometimes I recall
The pet shop let you go
Did you mind the cardboard box
Or the brother you didn't know
You had?

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from 50​-​90​-​2012 Vol 2, track released September 11, 2012
TA Walker - guitalele, vocal

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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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