Lyrics When It's Perfect - Frank Zappa

When It's Perfect

FZ:.
.. just so I can hear the song again
One two one two three
I’ll give you two bars
One two one two three
One two one two three
Again
One two one two three
One two one two three
That’s-- We’re missing
??: The accent
FZ: Okay
??: Frank, the that part?
FZ: No, actually, I think the part you’ve got is probably.
The other one was
pretty much engineered for the tuba
Now, let’s go over this «New Brown Clouds» the way we were starting off with it.
You missed this part.
There’s seven, you count seven quarter notes before you
come in, Kenny.
And then you read that as if it was double-time
FZ: Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
??: Oh
FZ: All right, let me hear it
FZ: Let me hear the brass at that double-time clip
One-- I will count the seven beats before you come in
One two three four one two three
FZ: That 5/16 thing is like a little fanfare
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh duh-duh DUH
??: Yeah, right
FZ: You know those little fanfares.
Aynsley: the four beat exactly?
Aynsley: just before it
FZ: When it’s perfect, it’ll come into the right place
Aynsley: Yeah, but it’s exactly
FZ: It should be one two three four one two three duh-duh duh-duh-duh
Aynsley: a sixteenth note before
FZ: Yeah.
It comes in right on the downbeat of the four beat of bar two
Aynsley:
FZ: One two three four one two three
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
Okay, here it is in full regalia
??: Where?
FZ: From the beginning.
Brown Clouds