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Elevator Men
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Micah Sommersmith

Entry from Elevator Men in Nur Ein XII.

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ELEVATOR MEN
Micah Sommersmith

In the morning see how they ascend,
Rising from the lobby to their offices above
To spend the day affixed to desktop screens
Knowing that tomorrow they will do it all again.
In the morning see how they ascend:
All the boring elevator men.

In the evening see how they descend,
Offices to lobby, and then taxis and then home
To spend the night affixed to TV screens
Knowing that tomorrow night they'll do it all again.
In the evening see how they descend:
All the dreary elevator men.

I'm not one of those;
I've got secrets underneath my corporate clothes.
But in my fight for bread,
To survive I must disguise myself as one of them,
And learn to sing their song,
And stand and sing along:

In the morning see how we ascend, / In the evening see how we descend,
Rising from the lobby to our offices above / Offices, then lobby, and then taxis and then home
To spend the day affixed to desktop screens / To spend the night affixed to TV screens
Knowing that tomorrow we will do it all again. / Knowing that tomorrow night we'll do it all again.
In the morning see how we ascend: / In the evening see how we descend:
All the boring elevator men. / The elevator men.

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Manhattan Glutton

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I feel like you're borrowed the scale melody singing from round 0. This is much more coherent as a song than that one, though the mixing and mastering could be better. I enjoy the stops and what you've done with the call/response. The arrangement of instrumentation is surprisingly effective. I think I have one useful takeaway from this song - maybe you should avoid singing in your lower register.

Spintown

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The opening sounds like something from an 8-bit videogame. Liked the music & vocals were ok. What I’d like to see done is replacing the last 2 lines of the first verse with the last 2 of the 2nd….then just getting rid of the 2nd verse. You spend too much time explaining how boring these suits are. Get it done in 1 verse so your song doesn’t start to get boring. Then write another verse about the secrets you mentioned in the 3rd verse.

Lunkhead

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Getting a video game music vibe again from the fake instruments. Everything's sounding very mono/up-the-middle, more panning of more elements would be nice. I'm glad you're singing more than speak-singing this time, I don't love the speak-singing. I like that your melody is covering your full vocal range and you're covering a wide range but your higher register sounds a little quavery. This is often a bit too frenetic for me but overall I also don't dislike this one. WTF?!?!

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