charlie_parker_loves_me raze some singers will let the keys of their compositions drift during live performances. it's about vocal stamina and trying to avoid unnecessary strain. then it becomes about aging and not being able to hit the high notes anymore. you flipped the script and shoved this song into a higher key when you sang it on the late_night talk_show of a man who was a little less than a decade away from torpedoing his career with his inability to let an old flame flicker_and_fade. gone were the ill-fitting drum loops and hokey harmonized asides. there was no juliet in rags. just the son of lord and lady montague crooning on a street corner, so sure in his assertions that he almost made me believe the impossible through you, if only for a moment. this is still how i hear you in my head, half a lifetime after the fact. 251229 what's it to you? who go blather from