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Simple (ft. Michelle Kim)

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LYRICS:

[Him verse 1]
With the wind flowing through your hair
You look so fragile there
As you forget, yeah you forget
With the sand inbetween your toes
You know this place aint home
And you forget, yeah you forget.

[Him Bridge]
Let it heal you,
Come on
Let me take you there…
It unreels you
Come on
Let me take you there…

[Chorus]
But it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is hide.
Yeah it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is lie.

[Her verse 2]
You can take your time
And write the same old lines
As you forget, yeah you forget.
With ink-stained fingertips and
this poison on your lips
As you forget, yeah you forget.

[Her Bridge]
Let it heal you,
Come on
Let me take you there…
It unreels you,
Come on
Let me take you there…

[Chorus]
But it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is hide.
Yeah it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is lie.

[Break]
(Him) I'm sick and tired of
All these ties of mine
(Her) Then let them go
You're losing control
(Him) I've got my reasons why
Don't judge what I can't hide.
(Her )Surrounded by those
And still you're alone.
(Him )Well I chose my direction.
(Her) You're feigning perfection.
(Him) And I can't even turn.
(Her) Soon you'll crash and you'll burn.
(Him )It'll work in the end, right?
(Her) Keep playing pretend, I really
(Him) Wish it could be
(TOGETHER) So simple and clean.

[Chorus]
But it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is hide.
Yeah it'll never be, never be so simple
When all we ever do, ever do is lie.

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Time for your lips, open 'ide!

Stuff that's great:
- The chord synth has a really really nice mellow attack to it, it sounds excellent.
- The vocals are generally excellent, especially Michelle's singing.
- Reeeeeally chill for trance, which is pretty nice.

Stuff that can be improved:
- There are some weird things with the male vocals at parts like "take you there". It seems like part of the male vocals are cut off at the start - "ake you there". Enunciation of the beginnings of words is really important for cleanliness.
- Careful with overloading your mix at 1:35. The additional high hats are fairly buried and the vocals are burying the mellow attack of your chords.
- The background melody isn't particularly interesting, and it's repeated *a lot*. I wish the background melody were used more effectively than being repeated. (On a related note, the chords seem to be repeated throughout the whole thing - some variation would be excellent).

Overall this is a pretty chill piece without that much variation, just a couple breakdowns in the middle and some nice changing up of the vocals towards the end. More variation along with just a bit of tightening up the mix would make this fantastic.

8.6/10

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Score
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Uploaded
Aug 21, 2017
12:35 AM EDT
Genre
Dance
File Info
Song
12.1 MB
5 min 18 sec

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