COVER TIME - "On My Own" from Les Miserables (a cappella vocal)
An old favourite. I last sang it when I was 15 to audition for a high school musical :).
"On My Own"
And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face to say "Hello" to
But now the night is near
And I can make-believe he's here
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own
xx,
Kay
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P.S. If you enjoyed this, you may also enjoy my cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" for this week's Open Mic.
Hi how are you? Really awesome acapella performance, i love it - and i know how hard it is to perform in this way ! I’m a new steemit user and would like to connect with other cool steemians, artists and musicians. I’m posting music tutorials and other things related to music (and bitcoins:p). I’m the founder of the free music school communicasound. I'm really pleased to meet you. So i give you my vote, follow you and i will be happy to read your next posts in the futur. If you want, you can do the same and follow me. It’s important to have a family in Steemit :) Greetings from Paris. Peace.
Awesome sound. Really good vibrato. You're voice is truly really soothing. THANK YOU for spelling a cappella correctly. Such a small thing but so many spell it wrong.
haha I'm with you on the little spelling/grammar things. But the crazy thing is that as I get older I make more and more mistakes--mistakes I once NEVER thought would be possible. It's embarrassing when I realize them after the fact, but they definitely happen a lot more often now. So depressing.
Thanks for the kind words :). Glad you enjoyed! xx, Kay
Awesome! One of my favorite musicals :)
It's so good. I'd love to see it live again - it's been more than a decade now!
Such a great voice. Making me break my one vote per day rule! ...but it's worth it, this time.
Have you ever done this song? That's my favorite version of it. That dude... one of my heroes.
haha oh, no! Causing trouble! :) Thank you, though!
I haven't! Maybe it'll make an appearance on day...!
Listening to that song right now. Really lovely.. I would like to cover it some time soon. But it needs to "get in my blood" a bit before I'll be able to do a good job of it.
Sorry for the delay. I've been busy playing Jeopardy with people who don't realize they're playing Jeopardy.
Take your time. I was just throwing it out there for fun.
lol! Pretty fun that you've had comment themes lately. #cornercutting #funcornercutting
I've done that plenty of times in the past. I blog in character and sometimes stay in character for the comments. On a few occasions, I've done posts where the theme is rambling. My comments on those posts are long and pointless.
Wonderful performance, so brave to let you voice stand alone with no effects and no accompaniment. But you certainly have the voice and talnet to carry it off.
A cappella can be a bit awkward, but it's also kind of fun. Nice for a change! :)
Kay, you got an angel voice! Amazed. :O So calming and relaxing. How did it go? Hope we can connect :) Followed
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