My instrumental version of an Eraserheads song

It’s more than a week today since I watched this great reunion concert, but all those happy and nostalgic memories are still on my mind.

I was inspired by the last song the Eraserheads performed that night. The title is Lightyears from the band’s Fruitcake album. The song’s lyrics became more meaningful and significant in the context of Ely Buendia’s mother who passed away just two days before the band’s historic concert. And so I composed an piano/flute instrumental version of it the day after the concert.

I did the instrumental using the open-source music maker NoteEdit on my Ubuntu Linux laptop. I listened closely to the original song’s melody and rhythm, and I strived to preserve the essence of the original sound in the instrumental, in particular the melody, key and chords. I also kept the instrumental as simple as possible.

So ladies and gentlemen, here it is:

Eraserheads - Lightyears (instrumental by Perry Valdez)

Big deeper, north of nowhere
Outside the room inside my mind
(I) look forward to tomorrow
But can I leave yesterday behind
How it feels so strange
To have grown and change
Now it’s not the same

Coz time slips and slides into another place
And try as we might to understand each other
Doesn’t really matter where you are
It always seems so very far
It’s like you’re light years away
You’re light years away from me

Little deeper, south of somewhere
It looks much closer than it really is
I held it in my hands
But you’re forever out of reach
Far as the eye can see
Nothing is meant to be
Doesn’t mean much to me

But oh, if I only had a rocket ship to fly
I’d be right there in a minute
But it doesn’t really matter where you are
However near is still so far
It’s like you’re light years away
You’re light years away from me, oh…

Far as the eye can see
Nothing is meant to be
Doesn’t mean much to me

But time slips and slides into another place
And try as we might to understand each other
Doesn’t really matter where you are
It always seems so very far
It’s like you’re light years away
You’re light years away from me

Look forward to tomorrow
But can I leave yesterday behind