[Nepenthe]

I've heard this twice. The second time was in my company's gym on a Sunday morning after I changed the XM Radio over to XMU. It sounds like it could be The New Pornographers or Stars, but I don't think it is. I've attached two midi files inside a zip file. Laugh at my ragged MIDI composing skills. These are the melodies I can recall.

The "Chorus" starts out the song as far as I recall. It sounds like a female voice with a rapid drum backing and a choir of children perhaps for background vocals. The lyrics I can't recall but it could be something like "cry... me a river... hold onto something..." Or something like that.

Then the "Verse" melody starts, sung by a male voice, featuring no percussion and sparse instrumentation.

Then back to the Chorus. That's about all I can recall. I've been trying to figure out what this is for a little while now. Is it old? New? Obscure? Very well-known?

Eternal thanks to whomever solves this mystery!!

 

[Nepenthe]

Hmm, that's a lot of views. I tried to add a drum track to the Chorus but the MIDI composer I downloaded kept crashing when doing so. Maybe it's just obscure...

I can record a much nicer version at my father's house this weekend.

Maybe it was a dream and I have new music that comes to me in my dreams. No, I remember it from the gym...

 

[fraseyboy]

Hmm no idea... Catchy though!

 

[Nepenthe]

Bumping for the weekend crowd. Continues to elude me and frustrate me.

 

[Nepenthe]

I figured it out!

I brought Sufjan Stevens' album "Illinoise" to work today, and lo and behold track twelve (of twenty-two) came up and lo and behold, it's the song. It's "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts."

The part I thought was "cry me a river hold on to something" is actually "only a steel man can be a lover, if he had hands to tremble all over, we celebrate our sense of each other, we have a lot to give one another."

I listened to the album what I thought was quite a bit in mid 2005, but I guess over two and a half years I had forgotten where I heard this (and that I owned it) even as it haunted me.

Today I'm rediscovering this album, by the way, pure magic. Gorgeous sounds.