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A Better Version: 36 Questions

The document is a musical composition titled "A Better Version" containing 36 questions arranged by Sierra McMurtry. It tells the story of a chance encounter between two people in the park that leads to them getting coffee together, though one person had falsely claimed to be watching a friend's dog in order to start a conversation. The composition uses musical notation and symbols to represent the dialogue and progression of events between the two characters.

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363 views12 pages

A Better Version: 36 Questions

The document is a musical composition titled "A Better Version" containing 36 questions arranged by Sierra McMurtry. It tells the story of a chance encounter between two people in the park that leads to them getting coffee together, though one person had falsely claimed to be watching a friend's dog in order to start a conversation. The composition uses musical notation and symbols to represent the dialogue and progression of events between the two characters.

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Nathan Wang
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A

Better Version
36 Questions
Arranged by: Sierra McMurtry

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   
= 98
Piano
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My life start ed when I

        
        


  
Piano

   


             
    
    
  
4

   
Pno.


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went for a jog and spot ted you in the park sit ting with a dog, so I

      
          

Pno.

   

      
   
7

  
Pno.


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stopped and asked, "Can I pet your dog?"

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     
                
 
Pno.

   

2

   
           
11

  
3 3
Pno.

         
"This is n't my dog, ac tu al ly, it's my friend's dog, Shei la.

        
         

               
 
Pno. 

         

 
              
      
14

Pno.


       
I'm tak ing care of her while he's a way. She's on a lot of med i

  
       
         
     
  
Pno.

  
    
16

           
Pno.


           
ca tion." And I laughed and you laughed, say ing you did

   
      


 
Pno.

  

     

18

           
3 3

     
Pno.

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n't want to be found out when you asked me to coff ee and there was no dog.

 
     
      

Pno.

  

3

        
      
20

  
Pno.


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I said yes and you said, "I'm Jase, what's your name?"

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  
       
        
   
Pno.

  

 
      
             
23
Freely:


Pno.

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And I heard the per fect opp or tu ni ty to be some one else en

 
      
          

Pno.

   

       
     
26

        
3
Pno.


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ti re ly. Free from my his tor y. For one sin gle cup of

             

  

     


Pno.

    

          
      

30

Pno.

           
           
coff ee I would be Nat a lie.

      
  
   
      
                          
Pno.

     
 
4

          
Freely:


     
35

  
Pno.


                      
It felt like my life, but a bet ter ver sion.

                          
         
         
Pno.

  

  
             
39

  
Pno.


                          
With you in my life, I was a bet ter per

       
        
     
Pno.

   

 
              
42

 
Pno.


                  
son. I heard mu sic in the words you were say ing.

     
     
  
  
Pno.


  

   
                 
44

 
Pno.


                          
Mel o dies with no band play ing. For the first time I was in love

        
         
         
Pno.

 
     
     
5

            
47

 
Pno.


                          
 
And I loved who I was with

        
         
   
Pno.

   


     
        
 
51


Pno.


              
you. All the mun dane shit I used to hate, like

      
        


  
Pno.

   


       
 
54

    
Pno.

     
re cy c'ling plas tic and floss ing ev 'ry day,

 
    
  

Pno.

 

 
       

55

  
Pno.


      
mak ing break fast, pay ing bills,

    
  

Pno.

 

6

       
  
56

   
Pno.


      
wa ter ing the plants on our wind ow sill was in

    
  

Pno.

 


                    
57


3 3
Pno.


          
vig or at ed with your sense of wond er. Pil low talk, aft er noon walks,


  
    
      
 
Pno.

  

  
      
59

    
Pno.

     
hold ing hands in the park ing lot of Home

 
    
  

Pno.

 


         

60

  
Pno.


      
De pot, deal ing with in ev i ta ble mis

    
  

Pno.

 

7

         
 
61

  
Pno.


      
for tunes that were bare ly man age a ble. Like that

    
  

Pno.

 

 
              
62


Pno.


time we ac ci dent 'ly hit a squirrel with your

         
car.

   
   
       

 
Pno.

  

 
       
      
64

      
Pno.


That was an un for tu nate do you know what I mean?

              
a nec dote,

      
        


   
Pno.

   

 
             
67

  
Pno.


                           
It felt like my life, but a bet ter ver

        
         
     
Pno.

   

8

         
 
70

 
Pno.


                          
sion. With you in my

           
         
  
Pno.


      

  
          
73

     
Pno.


                   
life, I was a bet ter per son. I heard

          
       
    
Pno.


        
            
75

Pno.


                  
mu sic in the words you were say ing. Mel o dies with no band play ing.

     
       
 
Pno.

       

 
        
 
           
77

  
Pno.


                                  
For the first time I was in love And I loved

           
              
             
Pno.

  

   
9

         
  
   

81

Pno.


            
       
who I was with you. My

  
        
        


    
Pno.


   

  
    
85

    
Pno.


      
par ents fin 'ly tracked me down af ter

    



  
Pno.

 

  
              
86

  
Pno.


        
years of jump ing from town to town they found you and me.

 
   
      
    
  
Pno.

 


                  
88


Pno.


           
Men in suits at our front door ask ing you a bout Ju dith Ford, and I knew

   
        
Pno.

  
    
   
10

         
        
90


Pno.


               
in stant ly. They say be fore you die your whole life

   


  
       
       
    
Pno.

 

 
                    
94

Pno.


           
flash es be fore your ver y eyes. Well it did n't the first

   
     
Pno.


   
            
       
96
3
Pno.

 
              
time, but this time I heard each and ev 'ry lie I'd

    
            







    
               
Pno.

       

       
                  
99

Pno.

      
    
ev er told you, I tried to cling to the life I'd made to

           
            
 
         

Pno.


        
 
11

            
        
102


Pno.

   
            
geth er with you. So, I did the on ly thing I knew how to.

         


       
     
      
Pno.

   

     

                   
        
105

  
Pno.

 
             
I de nied who I was be cause. I want ed to keep my life,

      
       


   
Pno.



 

   
      

     
110

    
Pno.


      
but the bet ter ver sion. Nat a lie, your wife,

   

Pno.

  

    
                
114

    
Pno.

 
         
she was a bet ter per son. I mem o rized your voice and how

    


  
Pno.

   
  
12

               
117

Pno.

  
            
you say good bye, but you nev er said good bye, you nev

       
    
Pno.

  

         
            
119

 
Pno.

   
                 
er said good bye and I held on to our

  
      
       
Pno.

       
          

            
    
  
122

Pno.

 
               
life, and who I was with you. Who I was with

 
     
      
     
Pno.

  
    


           
126

Pno.

 
          
you. Who I was with you.

     
      

Pno.

   

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