Name: Surround
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: This tune started out as a demo for a digital recording class I was teaching. I banged out the verse progression on instruments at my office, and we looked at some mixing possibilities. I never intended it to become a real song, but the bouncy beat stayed w/ me, and then I suddenly I found myself finishing it up. It tells the story of how I met my beautiful wife Devin, who graces the cover!

Surround

by Dan Sonenberg

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This tune started out as a demo for a digital recording class I was teaching. I banged out the verse progression on instruments at my office, and we looked at some mixing possibilities. I never intended it to become a real song, but the bouncy beat stayed w/ me, and then I suddenly I found myself finishing it up. It tells the story of how I met my beautiful wife Devin, who graces the cover!

lyrics

Over the hill
Facing the void
Feeling afraid
But acting annoyed

I stepped into the room
Saw you standing up tall
Then you glancing my way
And I started to fall

All kidding aside my love
We ain’t just playing around
It’s there in black and white
My faith in you
And in the magic we found

I relive it all the time,
Me facing you
I play it back in surround

Over to me
You walked into the noise
This grumpy old Gus
And his six year old boys

Sizing me up
You know you didn’t get far
Before you asked me straight out
If I had a big car

All kidding aside my love
We ain’t just playing around
It’s there in black and white
My faith in you
And in the magic we found

I relive it all the time,
Me facing you
I play it back

And in my younger days
I thought I knew so much
I had this vision of myself,
Yet was so keenly out of touch
Or was I just waiting for your gaze

Finishing up
You brought me the check
Our moment was over
And I felt like a wreck

So I did what I do
I sat and I wrote
I left you my number
On a napkin-sized note

All kidding aside my love
We ain’t just playing around
It’s there in black and white
My faith in you
And in the magic we found

I relive it all the time,
Me facing you
I play it back in surround

credits

released March 1, 2024
All sounds performed, recorded and mixed by Dan Sonenberg.
Mastered by Zach Chapple

Most tracks recorded at the Osher School of Music of the University of Southern Maine. (Some overdubs recorded at Melody Lane Studio).

Cover photo by Peter Skoczenski

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Dan Sonenberg Portland, Maine

Dan Sonenberg is a composer and singer-songwriter living in Portland, Maine. He is the composer of the opera The Summer King, which was produced by Pittsburgh Opera in 2017, and Michigan Opera Theatre in 2018. Also the founder of the indie rock band Lovers of Fiction. ... more

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