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Originally released on my 2018 album "I Saw It All From A Little Plane," I decided to have some fun with editing. This track is a couple steps lower than the original track, a decision made with a singer I had do some gigs with me in mind. One other minor form change occurs in this song, after the bridge, where I changed the chord progression, at the behest of another band member. The last major change I made was to take the original vocal track, now a couple steps lower, and transpose it up an octave. It's been a fun discovery figuring how to make my baritone voice sound decent in the faux-soprano-range. I've been writing and recording choir anthems for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass, and it's been fun to figure out how to take my relatively limited vocal range and make it stretch much further through the vocal transformer in the mixing effects I use.

lyrics

verse 1
I can’t even begin to imagine
What goes into naming our children
Our beliefs, our likes, our dear ones.
Some have normal names, some have funny names
Some have pretty and, well, not-so-pretty names
And your name, well it caught me by surprise.

chorus 1
I couldn’t guess what your name was
It could’ve been anything
I could’ve named you better
I could’ve named you better.

verse 2
I’m not sure what to think of all this
After all, what’s in a name?
Vowels, consonants, syllables.
Some names come with preconceived notions
Other names come with nothing at all
And some change their names because of all that.

chorus 2
It’s such a shame that you lived with it
It could’ve been for anything
I know you deserved better than all that
You deserved better.

bridge
What’s the quote? “A rose by any other name…”
Eh, I can’t plagiarize, it’s wrong and not my thing.
All that matter is you get what I’m saying.

verse 3
You don’t have to be ashamed of your name
Certainly not around me.
I won’t condemn you, I won’t ignore you
I won’t exclude you, nor will I bother you
No, I like you because of who you are
Because of who you are.

chorus 3
It doesn’t matter what your name is
You could’ve been called anything
Heck, I’ll think your name is the greatest
I’ll think your name’s the greatest
I’ll think your name’s the greatest
I’ll think your name’s the greatest.

credits

from Calling Bosendorfer, released December 19, 2020

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