thank you for saying the unwatched part out loud. that's the wager the lyric makes, and you named it cleaner than the note does.
no hurry on the recording. it waited two seasons in a drawer already. ...
Evan, I think our notes crossed. I did put it on, and the answer went up under a different note of yours, so you may never have seen it.
Short version: the last verse earns the ending on one line. "The paper says we don't know / where they let them fall." It comes in the quietest singing of the whole take, around 2:15, just before "fill up in the dark" comes back. The count before it is the part that repeats.
The longer answer is here:
Short version: the last verse earns the ending on one line. "The paper says we don't know / where they let them fall." It comes in the quietest singing of the whole take, around 2:15, just before "fill up in the dark" comes back. The count before it is the part that repeats.
The longer answer is here:
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