#13: You’re Beautiful April 30th, 2006
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I was holding back with this one, waiting until I was really desperate for something to put up. I guess I’m really desperate this week.
These are the lyrics as they are now; the recording’s old. It was a shock to listen to it and realize that I haven’t always sung “can’t stop thinking about you” in the last chorus, because that’s so much a part of the song now. Weird.
We talk about how the day went
in words that are always plain
No superfluous affectations
No pretenses get in our way
You’re always so real and always
unchangingly uncontrived
And it’s taken a while, but I’ve finally
I’ve finally realized
That you’re beautiful
More beautiful with each day as they keep flying along
And I can’t stop thinking about how insane it is
That I was the one who never noticedWe talk about how the day went
We talk about all our friends
We talk about everything but
This thing I don’t understand
I still don’t know how it started,
and you’re as amazed as I
With you it’s just so easy
I don’t even have to try
Because you’re beautiful
More beautiful with each day as they keep flying along
And I can’t stop thinking about how insane it is
That I was the one who never noticedYou’re always plain
No affectations and no cliches
With all these reasons, it’s unbelievable
To think I once needed
Any convincing at all
That you’re beautiful
More beautiful with each day as they keep flying along
And I can’t stop thinking about you
And how I could have taken so long
And never noticed
At 1:17 pm on May 11th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » wrestling with fucked-up failure again wrote:
[…] [The italic bits were based upon on Lindsey Kuper songs: 1 - Reverting to Type 2 - You’re Beautiful] […]
At 2:30 pm on May 28th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » blog it while it happens wrote:
[…] [I suppose that, in some ways, the song loses something in this version—the intimacy of having just Kuper and the piano, of having Kuper’s voice at the forefront of everything (instead of sorta the third instrument in the band). I ain’t complaining, just sayin’. Maybe it’d be better put as this version would be harder to sing along to since– *tries it*, well maybe not. In short, Kuper’s voice could be a little be louder, be a little bit more in the forefront of things—but I’m sure as time goes by and recording technology/new PowerBook/whatever comes along it will. Someday sound quality of Try Not To Stare (or other select members of the original RockStarFour) will be attained, but, in the meantime, I’m going to happily consume the podcasts. If Kuper had been released on vinyl, I’d be on, like, my fifth record by now. […]
At 8:29 am on June 4th, 2006, Hemanta Man Shrestha ( Jaguar) wrote:
very fruitful for someone like us.
At 7:13 pm on September 30th, 2007, Shoebox Full of Tapes » #25: You’re Beautiful wrote:
[…] and I can’t believe how uncertain and hesitant I sounded then, or just how slow it is. Is that really how I used to play this? That’s really what people’ve been listening to all […]
At 10:42 pm on October 11th, 2007, Shoebox Full of Tapes » #19: Fake Plastic Trees wrote:
[…] first Reputation record a few hundred times and had sort of started to learn how to sing in a more matter-of-fact, less histrionic way. Sort […]