Just Right as an Alarm

To be honest, the full version of this song is somewhat ordinary—much like the catchy pop hits you hear everywhere these days. There is nothing wrong with that kind of song, of course. But compared with its accompaniment, the complete track feels a little .

I first heard it by chance. I used to keep a in my bedroom, and I liked using it to set alarms—to wake me up or remind me to do something. As far as I could tell, you . One afternoon nap, the alarm played this song, and I .

It woke me one summer afternoon. Cold air from the air conditioner, light filtering through the curtains, eyes still half closed. Being woken by a song that does not shout at you is a kind of happiness—and so, in its own way, is waking up on a summer day like that.