It may suprise folks to know that I have never sang, or written, a duet. I have been so lucky to to have some incredible women sing with me over the years, but it has allways been a harmony to one of my songs. Recently, I was watching "Walk Hard" (one of my favorite movies and a parody of bio pic movies like "Walk The Line" and "Ray" ), and I started to think about how strange it would be to have someone cover a duet that you wrote and/or sang with someone you were in love with..but that you were no longer with. And why not write it as a duet? As I wrote I realized it could also simply be a metaphor for "our song" :)
Verse
Someone else is singing our duet
two strangers we have never met
they know the words, but they don't know/ just what they mean
They do some justice to the song
but yet, it is all wrong
their perfect notes and melody / seem out of key
Chorus
I supose I shouldn't care
we both moved on to other tunes
but how could their 2 voices dare/ re-live the life/
I had with you?
Verse
Someone else is laying out our hearts
the bright and hopeful parts
they sing as if there is no / Irony at all
As if they were still pure and true
the words I sang to you
suspended ever in mid air / to never fall
Repeat Chorus
Some one else is singing our duet
two stangers we have never met
they sing and so the story goes / and life moves on
A fleeting glimpse into the past
A flame that burned, but could not last
a love that once consumed our world / and now - is- gone.
Music (first half of verse) outro.
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