self help music ii

arpeggiate every e as a quintuplet justin orok

e = 85

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to be recited over guitar part:

someone is getting excited.

somebody somewhere is shaking with excitement
because something tremendous is about to happen to this person.
this person has dressed for the occasion.
this person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening
and this person can hardly believe it. but believing is not an issue here,
the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really happening.
it involves stepping forward and bowing. possibly there is some kneeling,
such as when one is knighted. one is almost never knighted.
but this person may kneel and receive a tap on each shoulder with a sword.
or, more likely, this person will be in a car or a store or under a vinyl canopy when it happens.
or online or on the phone. it could be an e-mail re: your knighthood.
or a long, laughing, rambling phone message in which every person
this person has ever known is talking on a speakerphone and they are all saying,
you have passed the test, it was all just a test, we were only kidding,
real life is so much better than that. this person is laughing out loud with relief and
playing the message back to get the address of the place where every person this person
has ever known is waiting to hug this person and bring her into the fold of life.
it is really exciting, and it's not just a dream, it's real.

-except from no one belongs here more than you (miranda july)