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Let the accounts rest; remember the neighbours.
English lyric · duet direction · Hindustani turns and Portuguese guitarra
This edition shares the counter, departing neighbours and harbour-turned-square with No one owes a boat. Its settled-debt refrain and waiting-for-a-friend wording reshape the telling. The relationship is clear without claiming identical words or the same recording.
The direction retains a male-female duet, 72 BPM, Hindustani melodic turns and Portuguese guitarra while asking for conversational English phrasing. Compare the two refrains as they move from accounting toward release; the remembered relationship matters beyond the numbers.
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[Verse 1 - Female]
The ledger’s underneath the counter
The paper’s yellowed first
The final mark was made in March
Then no one kept the books
[Verse 1 - Male]
Half the ones who owed me left
And those I owed are gone
The rest could pay me back today
But no one comes to ask
[Pre-Chorus - Duet]
They turned the harbor to a square
There are no ledgers there
[Chorus - Duet]
Let’s say we settled every debt
Let’s say we settled every debt
No one owes a ship to anyone
No one owes a winter to anyone
Let’s say we settled every debt
[Verse 2 - Duet]
I kept it not to call them in
But to remember when
A whole street knew what each one needed
And waited for a friend
[Pre-Chorus - Duet]
They turned the harbor to a square
There are no ledgers there
[Chorus - Duet]
Let’s say we settled every debt
Let’s say we settled every debt
No one owes a ship to anyone
No one owes a winter to anyone
Let’s say we settled every debt
[Outro - Duet]
Let’s say we settled every debt
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