Shiner / The Life and Times. One syllable per vocal note. Paste the block into Songsterr's Edit Lyrics; it maps each syllable to a note.
The lyrics
I'm beg- ging for a fa- vor In this dif-i- i- cult t-i- i-i-me. Take the zip ti-es from my an-kles We've both got a l-ot on our mi- i- i- inds I would coo- k for you Wash you dirty sheets I would feed you grapes Wave a palm leaf Write a song for you I would make you a sym- pho- ny I keep think- ing that we're still in love And be- lieve you me I- I tried And-I've guessed our des- ti- na- tion From the tu- rns on this grav- el ro- ad I'm in love with you But you're blind to me When you go to bed You don't drea- eam of me On your way to work I'm not any- where on your mind I keep think- ing that we're still in lov And be- lieve you m I tried I tried I been sleep- i- ing in the trunk whi- ile you drive 'Cause I have al- ways been your ride or die You love the sound Sound that my beat- ing heart is mak- ing ju- ust for you You love the sound Sou- ou- ou- ound of my beat- ing heart you hold in fro- ont of you I would cook for you Wash you dirty shee- ee- eets I would feed you grapes Wave a pa- alm lea- eaf Write a song for you No a sym- pho- ny I'm in love with you But you're bli- i- ind to me When you go to bed You don't drea- eam of me On your way- ay- ay- ay- ay- ay- ay- ay- ay- ay to wo- o- o- ork Mi- nu- u- u- u- u- us wha- a- a- a- a- a- a- at we had I keep think- ing that we're still in love And be- lie- ieve you me I trie- ie- ied I trie- ie- ied I been sleep- ing in the trunk while you drive I have al- way- ay- ay- ays been your ri- i- ide or die
How it was built
Through "grav- el ro- ad": your exact tabbing
Everything up to From the tu- rns on this grav- el ro- ad is Brandon's hand-corrected token stream, verbatim. Your melisma convention: a held syllable stretches its vowel across notes (t-i- i-i-me, mi- i- i- inds, dif-i- i- cult).
After "gravel road": generated from the stem, singability-corrected
The source Guitar Pro vocal track was sparse in the fast sections (bar 54 had one note for "I've" and none for "and"). So the back half is rebuilt from the vocal stem: MMS_FA forced alignment for the timing of every word, one note per syllable, pitched from the stem.
Two singability rules now baked in: function words and contractions (we're, still, in, to, that) never get a melisma, and no note ever holds a vowelless fragment like ll or n. A held syllable holds the vowel (drea- eam, never drea- m).
The back half is accurate to about one note on the sustained words; tighten by ear against the tab.
The .gp5 is the clickable Guitar Pro file to import into Songsterr Studio: 199 bars, 289 vocal notes (one per syllable), tempo 173, syllable lyrics attached, quantized to the 16th grid. The 16th "And" into the long "I've" pickup is in it. It carries the notes; the melisma holds live in the lyrics text above for pasting. The old v12 .gp was the sparse hand-tab and is superseded.