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Anywhere But Here | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Bryan Adams | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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| Date Written: | September 2017, New York | ||||||||||||
| Released: | February 19, 2022 (Bryan Adams YouTube channel) | ||||||||||||
| Album: | Bryan Adams - Pretty Woman: The Musical (March 11, 2022) | ||||||||||||
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Bryan Adams: all vocals and instruments |
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Produced by Bryan Adams. Recorded and mixed by Hayden Watson at The Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada. Mastered by Bob Ludwig. |
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| Comments: |
Among other things, we were alerted to the importance of the "I Want" song, which traditionally appears early in Act One. This is where the lead character reveals their motivating desire, setting the emotional parameters for the rest of the show. Examples of "I Want" songs from other musicals include "The Wizard and I" (from "Wizard") and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (from "My Fair Lady"). Writing an appropriate "I Want" song for "Pretty Woman" presented a significant challenge. Over a two-year period we wrote three different songs for this scene before arriving at "Anywhere But Here". |
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| Back-story: | "Pretty Woman: The Musical", opened in Chicago and New York in 2018, Hamburg Germany in 2019, London England in 2020 and Milan Italy in 2021. A USA touring production hit the road in 2021, stopping in every major American city and continuing into 2022 and beyond. Bryan Adams and I spent three years writing the 21 songs that appear in the production ... a typical time-line for a Broadway show. A "cast album" was recorded in New York in 2018 with nine musicians and 19 singers. The version above is Bryan's interpretation of "Anywhere But Here", recorded 2021-2022 at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver Canada. |
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Lyrics: |
I look around and what I see Is you don't belong here, it's clear to me What have you become You're really not this girl There's more to this, so what's it gonna take To get you off the street, when do you get a break? It's not what you wanted This is not your world I know where you'd choose to go If you could disappear Anywhere but here Anywhere but here You can feel somethin's comin' You long to be free You just wanna be Anywhere but here This sidewalk doesn't suit your soul It's time to make some changes and take control Find some room to move Feel the wind in your hair A clear blue sky and air to breathe You know it's time to fly, and I believe That there's so much more And it's waiting for you out there I can see where you wanna be And it couldn't be more clear Anywhere but here Anywhere but here You're waiting for somethin' It's easy to see You just wanna be Anywhere but here No more landlord, no more rent Just a place of your own where you'd be content To share it all with someone Who'd share it all with you I believe somehow some day this will all come true Anywhere but here Anywhere but here You can feel somethin's comin' You long to be free You just wanna be Anywhere but here Anywhere but here You're waiting for somethin' It's easy to see You just wanna be Anywhere but here |
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