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Balance Lost
Pleasant RowNur Ein XVI
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Balance Lost

Entry from Pleasant Row in Nur Ein XVI.

Must include a guest singing or speaking in another language

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Balance Lost
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Guests: The Serviettes singing in Welsh, Yuki singing in Japanese

The song is about 2 people living on the same street who feel like outsiders but find acceptance through each other. The English translation is in brackets beneath the non-English parts, and the Japanese also has the romaji version for ease of reading.

This song originally had verses that were twice as long, but I edited them out to keep the length down. The original version is here if you're curious.
https://www.gocarpetburn.com/mp3/pleasa ... ersion.mp3

The edited out lyrics are:
V1
Maybe his clothes, maybe his accent
Oh did he fit in?
Those neighbourly glances in his direction
Were they looking at him?

V2
Was it her clothes, was it her accent
She couldn't recall
The white picket fence that separates them
Might as well have been the Berlin wall

Endaf moved south from the valleys
Brought his guitar
Bought a house, raised a family
Made a new start

The Serviettes:
Pam nad yw’r pobl hyn, byth yn siarad ‘a mi...
Nid y’ whw eisiau gwbod, pwy ydw i
(*Why don't these people ever talk to me?
Don't they want to know who I really am?*)

Yuki had been living in the same room
For the last 15 years
Going to work, using her camera
Ignoring the stares

Yuki:
なぜ 皆話さないの
本当の私が誰なのかって
(Naze minna hanasanai no?
Hontou no watashi ga dare na no katte?)
(*Why don't these people ever talk to me?
Don't they want to know who I really am?*)

Why do we live in this city of millions
Where noone stops to say hello
Life could be so much more if you knock on my door
Swapping pleasantries on Pleasant Row
Swapping pleasantries on Pleasant Row

And then one day they discovered an app
Universal Translate
Where once there were barriers it bridged the gap
To communicate
Talk about art, talk about politics
Talk about love, talk about why...

Why do we live in this city of millions
Where noone stops to say hello
Life could be so much more if you knock on my door
Swapping pleasantries on Pleasant Row
Swapping pleasantries on Pleasant Row
Swapping pleasantries on Pleasant Row

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Pigfarmer Jr

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I like the tone of your vocal, but I felt it could be a bit stronger in places. The harmony didn't work quite as well as I think it could have (especially on shitty work speakers.) I like the guitars. This feels vaguely cure-ish to me but I think it's mainly in the guitars. I like your rhythm (as usual) and the chorus lyric and melody. This was hard for me to rank. This song was all over the place between first listen and last.

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