(fingers snapping)
♪ Mmm ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ La la la la la da da ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ You're on your own ♪
♪ In a world you've grown ♪
♪ Few more years to go ♪
♪ Don't let the hurdle fall ♪
♪ So be the girl you loved ♪
♪ Be the girl you loved ♪
♪ And I will wait ♪
♪ I will wait for you ♪
♪ So show me while you're strong ♪
♪ Ignore everybody else ♪
♪ We're alone now ♪
♪ So I will wait ♪
♪ I will wait for you ♪
♪ So show me while you're strong ♪
♪ Ignore everybody else ♪
♪ We're alone now ♪
♪ Suddenly I'm hit ♪
♪ Is this darkness or the dawn? ♪
♪ And all your friends are gone ♪
♪ Gone ♪
♪ And all your friends won't come ♪
♪ Come ♪
♪ So show me where you fit ♪
♪ Show me where you fit ♪
♪ And I will wait ♪
♪ I will wait for you ♪
♪ So show me while you're strong ♪
♪ Ignore everybody else ♪
♪ We're alone now ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We're alone now ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ We're alone now ♪
♪ Suddenly I'm hit ♪
♪ Is this darkness or the dawn? ♪
♪ And all your friends are gone ♪
♪ And all your friends won't come ♪
♪ So show me where you fit ♪
♪ Show me where you fit ♪
♪ Suddenly I'm hit ♪
♪ Is this darkness or the dawn? ♪
♪ Now your friends are gone ♪
♪ And all your friends won't come ♪
♪ So show me where you fit ♪
♪ Show me where you fit ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Living in a retrograde ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Living in a retrograde ♪
♪ No no ♪
♪ Living in a retrograde ♪
♪ No no no oh ♪
♪ Living in a retrograde ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
- The cover I played was "Retrograde"
by James Blake
and its a song I've been in loved with for,
God only knows how many years and,
I've always said that one day I'm gonna cover it,
but it's just gotta be the right time.
For me, what it was that grab me
was just how simple it was,
but then also the intent behind how James is singing it.
How I go about approaching a cover is
thinking about how I can
give kudos to the original but still make it sounds like me.
I think its important to just strip it back
and look at what the lyrics is saying,
and then see how I interpret it from there.
(guitar playing begins)
Alibi, Alibi is a track I've been sitting on for
quite some time.
It was just kind of a, I guess homage
to a lot of the soul, and disco and funk
I want to kind of modernize that
in a way and still kinda say,
I think this is how it would sound
if it was done in the 21st century
but then you got the highest motifs
that still a reminiscent of that era.
It started off with just a guitar and the vocal
and the harmonies and the ooze,
which I took a lot of inspiration from James' work
and try to implement that in Alibi.
(guitar playing continues)
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I'm sorry now ♪
♪ That I'm a little late ♪
♪ And I apologize, that you had to wait ♪
♪ See it totally slipped my mind ♪
♪ Lost all my sense of time ♪
♪So buy me that drink and just let me think ♪
♪ And I'll tell you the reasons why ♪
♪ Why ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ 'Cause she walked into my life ♪
♪ Started up a riot ♪
♪ Of color and fire ♪
♪ We woke up in my bed ♪
♪ And then we never left ♪
♪ And brother I'm tired ♪
♪ Then she said I was fool ♪
♪ For only seeing trouble ♪
♪ She opened up my eyes ♪
♪ Now I've seen the light ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ My Alibi ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ She heard my songs ♪
♪ On the radio ♪
♪ I mean she heard a voice ♪
♪ She had to get to know ♪
♪ And so she traveled a thousand miles ♪
♪ When I saw her it blew my mind ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I knew we'd connect the moment we met ♪
♪ She made it all worth while ♪
♪ But I ♪
♪ I've still gotta come down ♪
♪ Down down down down ♪
♪ Yeah I've still gotta come down ♪
♪ Oh my alibi ♪
♪ When she walked into my life ♪
♪ And started up a riot ♪
♪ Of color and fire ♪
♪ When you woke up in my bed ♪
♪ And then she never left ♪
♪ Brother I'm tired ♪
♪ And she said I was fool ♪
♪ For only seeing trouble ♪
♪ She opened up my eyes ♪
♪ And now the New York lights ♪
♪ Are in her sights ♪
♪ So soon she'll say goodbye ♪
♪ Will those summer dreams And autumn leaves survive? ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I've still gotta come down ♪
♪ Down down down down ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I've still gotta come down ♪
♪ From my alibi ♪
♪ And she walked into my life ♪
♪ And started up a riot ♪
♪ Of color and fire ♪
♪ Then she woke up in my bed ♪
♪ And then she never left ♪
♪ And brother I'm tired ♪
♪ And she said I was fool ♪
♪ For only seeing trouble ♪
♪ She opened up my eyes ♪
♪ Now I've seen the light ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ My my my my my ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ My my my my my ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ My my ♪
♪ My alibi ♪
♪ My ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
(guitar playing stops)