FAWM: "Find The Answers"

Find The Answers

18 hours ago by @edwinb

Find The Answers

edwinb

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Liner Notes

Just a little thing I needed to get out of my system, based on a thing I saw on some social media thing last week.

This is on my new 8 string, steel string, baritone #ukulele. Honestly not sure it still counts as a ukulele, but I love how it sounds whatever it is. I'm definitely calling it #nerdfolk and #filk

Lyrics

Dave the local knowall who is propping up the bar The lyrics from the busker when he's strumming his guitar A reddit post a stranger made in 2017 A flyer on a lamppost that I passed in Aberdeen

Take a clipboard into town and ask distracted passers by Find patterns in the clouds that are drifting in the sky Shake a magic 8 ball, just take a chance Consult a ouija board, a medium in a trance

Find a self-appointed expert with a phony PhD I'd try all of this before I ask ChatGPT

Break the fortune cookie so I know what I should do Find the answers scrawled in the graffiti in the loo It's there in Nostrodamus if you know where you should look Or lurking in the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup

Get a tarot reading, have a mystic read my palm Decode the secret bleatings of the sheep on Maggie's farm Sacrifice a chicken, take a trip to the unknown Draw a magic circle, summon demons to my home

Look up at the stars and see what they have planned for me I'd try all of this before I ask ChatGPT

Find a message in a bottle that has washed up in the sea That's what I'd try before I ask ChatGPT

Comments

@philkmills 8h

Good fun and good philosophy together. Nice start!

@tawny249 11h

Lawl. This is pretty accurate for me too. You'd have to pay me to use it. I laughed out loud at the decoding sheep bleatings. Classic Edwin vibes, and yes, the new instrument has a pleasing full sound to it. Great start to FAWM.

@tamsnumber4 12h

What a great write, love all of the examples and really like that uke sound. Good rhymes, this all works for me!

@janeg 14h

I so agree with you!!! Though I might leave out the demons and substitute the hamster in my head than keeps me away at night. Hope to hear this live at a future InterMezzo.

@catmisgivings 15h

Hahaha I am delighted. I really didn't guess where you were going with this until the chorus. Here, have a cupcake 🧁

The new instrument sounds phenomenal!

@kiraly 15h

Oh this is great, I was listening through trying to figure out where it was leading and then the punchline got me. So good! And the baritone uke sounds really nice too, I think it works really well for the song and your voice.

@gavran 16h

Well, I think the Farting Cat and its ilk are actually aiming for the grafitti in the loo level, and Grok already has the gross part down.

Of course, I'd not recomment advice from the loo scribbles either...

@davidtaro 16h

Not sure I’d know what to do with 8 whole strings, but you clearly do - it sounds great! Some excellent lines here, I like how they sort of get more surreal as you go along. And it’s a hard relate on the punchline for me. Well done!

@frenchcricket 17h

I do love a good punchline song and that is a target well deserving of a thump. Aha this was great

@ductapeguyMod 17h

An anthem for our times. And a FAWmanifesto. I am intrigued by the structure of this one. The melody carries all of musical structure. Lyrically, versus, pre-chorus and chorus are identical. Identical. The repetition of all these unrelated, things not quite explained leads to a big payoff in the refrain.

@pabrizzer 17h

good one - i don't even know what chatgpt is answers anywhere are hard to find

@billwhite51 17h

its been a long time since i had a needed injection of nerdy folk, and this is just the right dose. i love the bigger sound of this batitone 8 string. it gives the whole package a fuller sound.

@kosch 17h

Very amusing - One would certainly have better chance of accuracy from any of those things, rather than ChatGPT. I've been thinking of a baritone uke - wasn't even aware there was an 8 string option...hmm...

@sapient 17h

I'm not terribly well versed in stringed things that don't get plugged into very big amps, but this does sound absolutely gorgeous!

@coolparadisoMod 17h

its a uke in my world! Its a real nice Edwin story, you are very good at this style! My tarot card told me you would have a song early on ha ha. nice start mate

@helenseviltwinMod 17h

I feel a baritone, steel-strung, 8-string ukulele is treading very close to mandola territory, but it sounds great. Lovely, astute and witty lyrics, as ever. Great stuff.