From the recordings VRTL BDGA (Parts of demos) and Album Demos
Lyrics
For the intro / verse 1, I want you to imagine you're at an after hours party and a few people next to you started this little cipher. One of them interupts you cause you're next to the cipher and is like "hey we got this little cipher going, you wanna go?" and you feel kind of awkward and on the spot but you appreciate these cipher heads were just having fun and in the zone and just putting it out there in a playful way so you figure , "hey why not.". So you tell them "Well I cant freestyle but i can do something i wrote when i had my first crush in high school" .. and they're like "hell yeah!" And when you perform it use the performance on this demo as your guide (btw the last line you'll hear for this part is still in jibberish so just match its energy with the actual lyrics), so it's like you are just gonna turn your head and lean over from the chair you are sitting in and just go into it. performed not even with the energy if you were standing up, but just with the energy of someone sitting down and is just gonna give it that casualness.
(intro / verse 1)
Yo, it's like the first time I saw something so real
Caught in a moment, I didn't know how to feel
You walked in and the world tuned still
Like a scene in a movie, time started to chill
Now for the bridge vocoder follow how its sung in the demo (more or less cause each one has some slightly different notes and rhythm so i sung the different examples below. you're just putting a human voice on that robot sounding one. Stlll a lot of jibberish you'll hear but the lyrics are
(bridge / vocoder 1)
How can I say what I can't reveal,
when I know you will know me and see it anyway?
I hope it goes OK,
Hope it goes OK,
Hope it goes OK
(bridge / vocoder 2)
How do I say what I can't explain,
when I know you will know me and see it anyway?
You're better than the dream
Better than the dream
Better than the dream
(bridge / vocoder 3)
How do I say what I can't explain,
when I know you will know me and see it anyway?
Tell my youth the same
Tell my youth the same
Tell my youth the same
(Chorus) { if you could do each of these slight variations please. And the all caps words are the melodic/emotional accents you can hit those harder and let them pop,. The lowercase words are softer and more conversational. Basically all caps = emphasis , lowercase = flow, thank you! and i defnitely wasnt nailing notes so i can resing on autone tune so you it can be clearer for you or i can send just send you the transcribed notes for the chorus , sorry I dont have a demo with the chorus so you can just follow it, AND i can do teh same for my examples of teh vocoder bridges just say the word :)
I KNEW
from first
SIGHT
OHhh im IN DEEP
i'm IN
YOU caught me by surPRISE
OHHH I'M (one note pause) in DEEP
i'm IN
under SUMmer SKIES
ohh, i'm IN
i'm IN
I KNEW it from first SIGHT
OHHH, IM in DEEP
i'm IN