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[HANDS CLAPPING]

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All right.

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This song is by Ethan, also from
one of our songwriting camps.

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And this is called "With
My Friends in the Clouds".

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[GUITAR STRUMMING]

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(SINGING) Dear friends

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You make me want

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To be a better version of myself

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Dear friends

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You fill my heart

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With loving wealth

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Soaring all together

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Free to be ourselves

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Dear friends

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I feel the warmth

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Of your love in my life

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Dear friends

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Now I have no more strife

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Soaring all together

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Free to be ourselves

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Dear friends

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Let's change the world

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To actually share our love

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Dear friends

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Fly high with me

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And let's rise above

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Soaring all together

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Free to be ourselves

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Soaring all together

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With my friends in the clouds

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks.

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One of the pleasures
of collaborating

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in this way with spellers
is that, as we're writing,

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I'm often doing these
collaborations over Zoom.

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Sometimes it's in person.

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The spellers are working with
a communication partner who's

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saying the words out loud
as the spellers pointed

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to them on the board.

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And there's this amazing
sense of anticipation

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that I get to feel
while I'm watching

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the songs happen,
because I don't

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know what's about to happen.

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And this one, I remember
we'd sort of established

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what the chorus is, soaring all
together, free to be ourselves.

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So nice.

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And then in that
last chorus, Ethan

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was spelling soaring
altogether, and I

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was expecting it to say
free to be ourselves again,

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because that was like
the pattern we were in.

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And then he said, with
my friends in the clouds.

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And that was the first time
we had that phrase show up.

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And it was so nice.

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So good.

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Soaring all together with
my friends in the clouds.

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Don't mind if I do.