(birds chirping)
(soft guitar music)
♪ I saw you dancing in a crowded room ♪
♪ You look so happy when I'm not with you ♪
♪ But then you saw me, caught you by surprise ♪
♪ A single teardrop falling from your eye ♪
♪ I don't know why I run away ♪
♪ I make you cry when I run away ♪
♪ So take me back 'cause I wanna stay ♪
♪ Save your tears for another ♪
♪ Save your tears for another day ♪
♪ I said save your tears for another day ♪
♪ I met you once under a Pisces moon ♪
♪ I kept my distance 'cause I know that you ♪
♪ Don't like it when I'm with nobody else ♪
♪ I couldn't help it, I put you through hell ♪
♪ I don't know why I run away ♪
♪ Oh baby, I make you cry when I run away ♪
♪ So take me back 'cause I wanna stay ♪
♪ Save your tears for another ♪
♪ I realize that it's much too late ♪
♪ And you deserve someone better ♪
♪ Save your tears for another day ♪
♪ I said save your tears for another day ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ So take me back 'cause I wanna stay ♪
♪ Save your tears for another ♪
♪ I realize that it's much too late ♪
♪ And you deserve someone better ♪
♪ Save your tears for another day ♪
- So I decided to cover the song,
Save Your Tears by The Weekend and Ariana Grande.
With a song like this, I think
I wanted to kind of approach it from like,
what is the feeling of the song,
like what is actually saying.
And I think it's actually a pretty sad song.
It's very kind of heartbreaking song.
And so I kind of wanted to strip it to
the roots of what they wrote about.
I think I'd heard it so many times
that I'd never really thought about what they were saying,
but to hear the lyrics and actually have to read them
and be like, oh, like I met you once under a Pisces moon.
I'm like, wow, that's actually very existential.
(soft guitar music)
For People Watching is a song
that I wrote about this couple
that I stalked in my college campus cafe.
I've never been in love myself.
So I've always kind of watched people
and observed them as a way of kind of living through them
or getting some kind of satisfaction.
♪ That wasn't funny but she laughed so hard she almost cried ♪
♪ They're counting months ♪
♪ They've been together almost forty-nine ♪
♪ He's making fun of how she acted 'round the holidays ♪
♪ She wears a ring ♪
♪ But they tell people that they're not engaged ♪
♪ They met in class for metaphysical philosophy ♪
♪ He tells his friends ♪
♪ I like her cause she's so much smarter than me ♪
♪ They're having talks about their futures until 4 a.m. ♪
♪ And I'm happy for them ♪
♪ But I wanna feel all that love and emotion ♪
♪ Be that attached to the person I'm holding ♪
♪ Someday I'll be fallin' without caution ♪
♪ But for now I'm only people watching ♪
♪ I'm only looking just to live through you vicariously ♪
♪ I've never really been in love, not seriously ♪
♪ I had a dream about a house behind a picket fence ♪
♪ Next one I choose to trust I hope I use some common sense ♪
♪ But I cut people out like tags on my clothing ♪
♪ I end up all alone but I still keep hoping ♪
♪ I wanna feel all that love and emotion ♪
♪ Be that attached to the person I'm holding ♪
♪ Someday I'll be fallin' without caution ♪
♪ But for now I'm only people watching ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪
♪ But I cut people out like tags on my clothing ♪
♪ I end up all alone but I still keep hoping ♪
♪ I won't be scared to let someone know me ♪
♪ Life feels so monotone but I still keep hoping ♪
♪ I feel ♪
♪ love emotion ♪
♪ I feel ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I wanna feel all that love and emotion ♪
♪ Be that attached to the person I'm holding ♪
♪ Someday I'll be fallin' without caution ♪
♪ But for now I'm only people watching ♪
(soft guitar music)
(birds chirping)