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Will I Ever Be Noticed

from Harmonium by Patrick Ames

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Track 3: Will I Ever Be Noticed

Love and atrraction in the age of masks.  Clean funky little guitar strums, nice little beat, this one slides along effortlessly with the help of Chana’s backup vocals and Jon’s bass fills. Great outro. It’s actually an older song that I recorded a long time ago although now it’s with a shorter story line. That’s legal. You can go back to your old songs and rewrite, rework, and reissue as a different thang. It’s a take on the third-man theme during the age of masks: boy wears mask and is all but invisible to girl and nothing happens. Chana came in at the end and gave it that brightness. The song lifts effortlessly and takes off under its own momentum. Jon gets on a little groove and everything is mixed perfectly including that soulful rhythm guitar. As a story, the song isn’t very elaborate or special, just street scenes until the all-important bridge where we learn that he’s complaining she doesn’t recognize him with the mask on, the one that he’s been wearing for the past several weeks. I’ll let you imagine what it looked like.

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Will I Ever Be Noticed -
© 2022 by Patrick Ames.

You posted your picture
Your mask was in your hands
I rated it super highly
Because I like those kind of thangs Will I ever be noticed / by you?

I was at that vegan restaurant
When you showed your vax card and got in
you rushed right pass me in the bar
To a table full of your maskless friends
Will I ever be noticed by you?

why can’t I be noticed
Might you recognize me
I’ve had this same mask on For the past several weeks
Can I ever be noticed by you?

You know I took the bus home from work
And sat in the seat right next to you
But you phone-talked the whole time
With your sister who lives in Duluth

Will I ever be noticed by you

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from Harmonium, released June 1, 2022
Patrick Ames: Guitars and vocals
Jon Ireson: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Chana Matthews: Backup vocals

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