"Ichabod and Selene" : FAWM

Ichabod and Selene

Liner Notes

Recorded a little sketch, as though drafting a #musical based on a book I read called The Watching Bird.

I thought the first scene between the two main characters was charming.

Lyrics

who's this here? a Registrant arrived this year? I feel a rush to meet this girl who's stopped and waiting by the Watching Bird

who's that there? with the grin and the - uncombable hair? looks so at home, and I wonder, while he saunters right up to the Watching Bird

here is the golden moment before our troubles begin we don't have a grade - we don't have a schedule - we don't have a sin

we'll learn that souls are golden. nothing else rings true. and I don't know anybody here - but I recognize you

we don't know ... what kind of world this is we don't know ... what the Watching Bird does we don't know ... what they put in that root soup in the cafeteria we know we have paired up!

we'll learn that souls are golden, nothing else rings true and from the moment that we got here I recognized you I recognized you

Comments

@toms 2d

Thanks for this, Elaine :-)

@billwhite51 3d

the music, lyrics, and performance fits right into the current trends in musical theatre. i saw the scene playing out very clearly in my mind's eye. and it made me want to see and hear the rest of the show. (love that coda)

@gardeningangel 3d

Charming and bouncy, what a sweet opening scene! I can just picture this on a stage. But I've got to wonder what they put in that soup 🥕

@chris_buono 3d

Definitely has all the earmarks of a song for the theatre stage or cabaret show, @elainedimasi .

Interesting little walking, infectious, memorable piano chime happening in this tune. Here's to that realized freedom and revelation going on in "The Watching Bird" read that you captured well here in song translation.

Classic stand-out lyric line has to be: "we don't know ... what they put in that root soup " and that added laughter/giggle to it is golden. Had that been intentional/in the original scripted song, or just spur-of-the-moment prodded to do so because the singing of that line got the best of you? Clever echo/double vocals infused at points, too. I think those helped to carry it all.