FAWM 2026 / Song 11 Instrument: composite wood soprano ukulele tuned high GCEA

1-hour writing prompt: “window shopping”

I first wrote the lyrics, then commented: The structure of this will need some revision if I am to set it to music — the stanzas kept turning out different. Or maybe it will end up through-composed.

But when I sat down to write music for this I didn’t actually find it that hard even though the rhyme scheme and the stanza line length was slightly different in each section, and I even like the way it turned out. I think the simple silliness of the melody works well with the silliness of the lyrics.

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In my defense, Defenestration never was my goal I took myself out window-shopping, Tripped over a pole, And elbowed some poor rando hard And he went out the hole

Out the window Down he fell That’s the tale I have to tell

I’m glad it hadn’t been installed It wasn’t high or in a wall, Just propped there on the floor (window section, next to doors)

And open — he did not fall far He seemed more mad than hurt at all He got no glass in face or ass So far as I could see — Alas, I chose to swiftly flee

Out the window Down he fell That’s the tale I have to tell

Through the window In the store I just nudged him, nothing more

Yes, although I pushed him through I did not intend to do Such misdeeds this afternoon I went out to buy a window For this very room

And that is prob’ly why The police are in the drive

Out the window Down he fell That’s the tale I have to tell

Through the window In the store I just nudged him, nothing more

No broken glass, no pain, no gore All the rest Is lies and lore