Doug Davis - Stay By Me

from Round 23, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Man, I had high hopes for this one at the beginning, but this is just hopelessly mediocre, in every possible way. Sounds like a Cutting Crew b-side. Oh, well.

DX7 spotters: the arpeggiated figure on the right is the Brass 3 preset, and the bass is the Bass 2 preset. There's also an Arturia Jupiter pad in there, FWIW.

Oh, and by the way: the song, as far as you know, is totally about a narrator who's on a hospital bed, pleading for his lover not to let him die. And not, as it may sound, just a run-of-the-mill, cliched plea from a lover not to leave him. And this is totally not a made-up justification for having completely forgotten about the hospital assignment until the last second.

lyrics

I can hear you talking but
 you can’t seem to say it
 the only words I need you to say
Once, I thought I knew you
 I knew the secrets you knew
The secrets kept the monsters at bay

Those dreams of the day 
you’d decide
You could stay
By my side

But now you hear a calling
A star that keeps on falling
 I wonder where you’ve gone tonight
 and though you’re right beside me
 your distant eyes divide me
 I wanna make you want to fight

But you’re all alone
In your thoughts
All of my hopes
Tied in knots

Oh, once, long ago, you could turn the
 bitter so sweet
Oh, now the ground disappears
Underneath my very own feet

Stay by me

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from Round 23, Week 3, released June 24, 2019

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