lyrics for "She's a Star"
sooooo trippy but the group can handle my arrangement---sorta mirrors brubeck's "take five" a little --- has three timing changes
i was influenced by working with him---but i was "mathmatically strange" with my own music before i knew him---but "take five timing"
did inspire me with this arrangement.
i'll let you know if the audience likes it----not much point---unless they do--
not for me---anyway----the ham in me rides high---always!!
i only have about fifteen minutes and i'm multi tasking as usual as i
gotta pack my glam and music---- and hop a plane outta here shortly---
here is the lyric
it's heavy and dark----but the jazz arrangement takes it to where it
hasn't been--to my knowledge--- before
maybe you will take it even further---i'd love that--i really would!!!
great lyric---here it is
she's a star"
faded drapes, a crooked shade
a matted rug on the floor
a dirty tray filled with cigarettes
and a rusty lock on the door
there she lives just below the stairs
in a room that's marked number three
and her mind lives apart in an old memory
and the crowd rushes to the gate--
"hey, i got here first, lemme take a peek"
see her ring, see her sable coat
why, what i earn in a year
she can make in a week
and that man he's her giggalo
even tho he chaueffers her car
and why not? after all----she's a star
and she lives high up on a hill
with a swimming pool and an iron gate
once a prince traveled round the world---
just to pay a call--and she made him wait
in a tub of ice they deliver fresh caviar
and why not? after all, she's a star
peeling paint, a broken chair
a dying fern on the sill
beside the bed there's a photograph
of a smiling girl on the hill
just a room--- marked---number three
where the summer breeze doesn't blow
and her mind lives apart in the long, long ago---when she's there high up on the screen
isn't she a joy, isn't she a prize?
with that smile sexy and serene
and that little light shining in her eyes
and that little smile and that little light
will forever stay as they are
she'll endure---that's for sure
she's a star!
i updated a word--i substitued "sexy" for "silent"---the original word
since the song in the chorus part-- is waltzy---it lends itself to great jazz interpretation
its being translated into french for me---i couldn't tackle this ---
so much work on my own songs to do yet--both jazz and classical---
whew!---but----i love it more than anything---
i really do hope someone will stop by this fairly dysfunctional room and order the sheet music for this song--- or hear it on the shirley mclaine album and tackle a new arrangement and---yes, it's just my mo- to be repetitious---i know ---i'm beating a dead horse here--- as i always do----but repetition is called "the hook"---when you want to be "heard"
so once more with feeling----a man with a great vocal instrument or at the very least---soul and fab phrasing and sensitivity doing this as a jazz piece----thrilling---
gotta fly---literally!!!
i was remembering doing this in sf and this italian guy got my home address and sent me bulaga caviar for a month because of the line in the song----he still sends me stuff---oh well, a good fan---definitely!
i won't tell you to "be original"---cause an "original" would think that to be a stupid line----
because it is-----
i will say--- i'm wishing to to be yourself at all costs----
never embrace "hyprocracy"----a deadly bedfellow
real art can't survive his chains-----
makes the muse cry---and----
me too!
huggles,
bev.
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