I felt like covering another Mariah Carey song, this time a song off of her 2002 ninth studio album Charmbracelet. Critics can go ahead and pan this if they want, I had fun making it. Definitely an alluring song both lyrically and musically. It's another alluring, sultry, romantic, nighttime, evocative, dreamy, seductive song similar to her song "The Roof (Back in Time)" off of her 1997 sixth studio album album Butterfly. I loved her use of background vocals in this song. I got the instrumental by ripping the audio from a YouTube video that had it, using the Audio Hijack application. I forget if it was already in my vocal range or if I pitched down the track into a male vocal range. The recording setup for this song was just me with my headphones on, recording vocals using my MacBook Pro's built-in microphone while lying on my bed on my stomach with my head closer to the edge of the bed where I usually put my feet, in my bedroom at 9 Park Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1124, United States. This explains the somewhat poor audio quality of the vocals compared with if they had been recorded with my full setup. I think I used this setup for this song just because I couldn't be bothered to set up my microphone and mic stand when I was recording, and maybe because it might've originally just been to see what my voice sounded like singing the song with the pitch correction effect honing in on the exact melody, rather than for inclusion on an album. But then I included it since I was trying to clear out all of the numerous in-progress Logic Pro and GarageBand projects that had long been in development and seemed like they were never gonna get finished otherwise.
lyrics
I should just hug you goodbye
But I just can't walk away from paradise
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
And we can revisit us one more time
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
Hey boy, what's going on
Thanks, I'm doing okay
Don't believe rumours- hey
How's your family
Please say hello for me
Guess we've both grown up a bit
But I have to admit
It really still feels good
Here by your side
Sitting right next to you
Just like I used to do
You know we can't deny
No one else in our lives
Holds a candle to you and I
Should just hug you goodbye
But I just can't walk away from paradise
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
And we can revisit us one more time
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
I should just hug you goodbye
But I just can't walk away from paradise
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
And we can revisit us one more time
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
So here we are again
All by ourselves
So familiar you know
That it actually almost feels like deja vu
Of that night on the roof
We kissed under the sky amid city lights
A sudden flashback to so long ago
In the dark all alone
With our bodies this close
Guess some things never change
'Cause I still melt away
When you touch me
And say my name
Should just hug you goodbye (baby)
But I just can't walk away from paradise (so I guess)
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
(I'll come and love you to sleep)
And we can revisit us one more time
(revisit paradise for a while)
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight (by your side)
(lullaby)
I should just hug you goodbye (see I know I should but boy)
But I just can't walk away from paradise
(you just look so good)
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
(so I'll sing that song)
And we can revisit us one more time
(you like to hear me sing as we revisit us)
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
(It feels, feels good)
I should just hug you goodbye
(I can't walk away
But I just can't walk away from paradise
From paradise so I'll take you home and sing to you baby)
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
And we can revisit us one more time
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
(though I know that I should just)
I should just hug you goodbye
(oh I can't, ...cause you)
But I just can't walk away from paradise
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
(you and I both know)
And we can revisit us one more time
(nobody else in our lives holds a candle to you and I)
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
I should just hug you goodbye shhh!
(so hush pretty baby)
But I just can't walk away from paradise
(mmm,it's just me and you yeah, as we relive the splendor of you and I)
So I guess I'll sing you that sweet lullaby
And we can revisit us one more time
Yes, I'll come home with you tonight
(I'm gonna sing our sweet lullaby)
credits
from Refinery,
released September 10, 2011
Vocals by Reuben Walton
Vocal production by Reuben Walton
Lyrics by Mariah Carey, Andre Harris and Vidal Davis
Composed by Mariah Carey, Andre Harris and Vidal Davis
Programming by Reuben Walton
Instrumental produced by Mariah Carey and Dre & Vidal
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music....more
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