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diff --git a/lyrics/allozipper.txt b/lyrics/allozipper.txt
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+Stutter.
diff --git a/lyrics/e.txt b/lyrics/e.txt
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+A new leaf.
diff --git a/lyrics/falling.txt b/lyrics/falling.txt
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+Scrunched bundle.
+It is all mine.
+Nobody else really wants it.
+Enjoying it is disturbing.
diff --git a/lyrics/gentle.txt b/lyrics/gentle.txt
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+I riff gently on the piano.
+I am gently treated by the piano.
+Gentle are those who have comfort.
diff --git a/lyrics/hickory.txt b/lyrics/hickory.txt
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+You might.
diff --git a/lyrics/lumber-over.txt b/lyrics/lumber-over.txt
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+I spent a long while forgetting about music. A Good 13½ months.
+I was in a voice chat yesterday with a good friend,
+who asked me when I would be making music again.
+He reminded me how sad it would be to have played my last song.
+And so I decided to play again.
+
+I dedicated the rest of my day to making music again.
+I left the chat and spent some time tinkering at the electric piano.
+I mostly just warmed up, rather than getting anything good.
+I found that I had a new confidence.
+Since the last time I had attempted to make music,
+I had become comfortable and confident, in a general sense.
+I realized a few things:
+* I need to have something to say.
+  What good is a mode of expression with nothing worth expressing?
+* I had become dexterous enough to use two hands at once.
+  I can thank the tax office for that.
+* I had to stop trying to play piano and to start trying to make good music.
+* The electric piano has two ports for 3.5mm headphone jacks.
+I took a good nap. I woke up in the late afternoon,
+and watched the third Harry Potter with my sister,
+then watched a surprisingly good movie on Netflix with my mother,
+called “First Knight”.
+It was then a little past midnight.
+I sat at the electric piano in our living room with headphones plugged in,
+and did a little more fiddling. I realized one more thing:
+* I really don't work well with verbatim instructions such as sheet music.
+  Instead of writing which notes I should play,
+  I may write what tone and what kind of progression I want.
+So, I grabbed a pen and paper from my room, and as I fiddled,
+wrote what kind of song I wanted, in vague terms.
+It's not entirely coherent, but here it is:
+
+The first revision:
+
+Fast and rapid, but light.
+This is where the piano excels.
+Move from C minor to F minor [I'm pretty sure I got the scales wrong.
+C'est la vie.].
+Lumber around a bit first.
+Move to intermediate pace in your own time.
+
+Second revision:
+
+Lumber near C3 first in C minor.
+Navigate an octave up. Let the pitch carry the acceleration.
+Move to F minor [in retrospect, I'm certain that this wasn't F minor.
+I realized this before the final recording, but went with it anyway.].
+In C5, dance.
+Return to C minor.
+
+During the recording, I was remembering loneliness, then friendship,
+then losing a friend.
+On a technical level, the recording involved me connecting to the piano
+via a MIDI to USB Type A cable, and using ALSA's `arecordmidi`.
+I cropped the failed starts from the MIDI using `lmms`.
+From there, I rendered to FLAC via `fluidsynth`, using the Yamaha C5
+Grand Piano soundfont provided here:
+https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/.
+I then encoded to 320kbps MP3 via `ffmpeg`.
+
+Thanks for asking, Alice.
diff --git a/lyrics/lumber.txt b/lyrics/lumber.txt
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 I spent a while forgetting about music.
 Then a friend reminded me how sad it would be to have played my last song.
 And so I play again.
+
+A friend asked for a detailed explanation of how I made this.
+Here's a copy of my response: https://mesacsclub.com/kaa/lumber-over.txt
diff --git a/lyrics/rapid.txt b/lyrics/rapid.txt
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+. .. .. .. . .. .. . . ... .. .. .... ... . .. .. .... ... ..... .. .. . ... .. .... .... .. . ..... ..... ... . .. . . . . . ..... ... .. . ... . . ... . .. . ... .. . . ... . .. . .. ... ... ..... ... . .. . . . .. .... ... .. . .. ... .. . . . .. . . . .... . .. . . . . . .  ............
+It simply is.
diff --git a/lyrics/roll-and-stop-and-roll.txt b/lyrics/roll-and-stop-and-roll.txt
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+All the right things in all the right places is good enough to be considered original. But being original has nothing to do with having fun.
diff --git a/lyrics/sink.txt b/lyrics/sink.txt
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+Spicy piano.
+The left hand doesn't do quite enough. The song starts nicely and
+ends with boredom.
diff --git a/lyrics/softening.txt b/lyrics/softening.txt
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+Negative velocity.
+Positive position.
+Untangling, ordering strands.
+This is real.
diff --git a/lyrics/sonny-daisy.txt b/lyrics/sonny-daisy.txt
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+I went through my catalogue of previous photos, and decided that I'd like to make a song about one. I took this photo a little over a year ago, on a walk somewhere.
+This time, I let myself have some fun.
diff --git a/lyrics/sustained-equilibrium.txt b/lyrics/sustained-equilibrium.txt
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+Sustained equilibrium:
+prevent overstimulation;
+dispel understiumulation.