FAWM: "Waiting"

Waiting

3 days ago by @hamiltonpoolhall

Skirmish: That doesn't rhyme (@200ghosts)

Waiting

hamiltonpoolhall

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Liner Notes

#skirmish #onemic #fingerpicking #acoustic

Easily my dumbest effort to date at a skirmish, but a super fun challenge nonetheless and possibly the first skirmish I've turned in remotely close to on time.

Lyrics

If it’s not Going to rhyme Does it even have to be delivered On the way, to the

Top of the hour When the work is due Would it make any difference in the World to…somebody just

Waiting For the final bell, just Waiting And you’re thinking what the Hardest part is

Waiting, watching the Skiing, and figur- Ing out how to do it one more Time, Avoiding one more

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Moment, When you can pull it Out of the fire, and know you dodged a Bit of difficulty, at the

Top of the hour, you’ll Arrive with the goods Following the rules just like you Know you showed ‘em, they were

Waiting For you to cross the finish line, just Waiting You post yours and I’ll post Maybe keep you

Waiting a little longer, some more Anticlimactic wordplay isn’t going to Ruin your experience at all

Comments

@tcelliott 2d

I'm simultaneously loving the word play and sitting here with hair raised on neck feeling like I've been left hanging for the last thirty minutes despite the song length being a mere 90 seconds or so. That being said, the singing is impressive. There's a little roughness to your voice that I'm finding very pleasing and the never quite catch your breath - ness of it drives it right along.

@200ghosts 3d

Awesome job! This is such fun. Great flow and rhythm, and I really enjoy the artful dodges around rhymes.

@richaaaay 3d

Amazing take on the skirmish. How you twist and turn the words in such unexpected ways such that there is no rhyming yet a perfect flow and rhythm is brilliant. Continuing with the melody on guitar after the you are done singing is a delightful second act.

@bethdesombre 3d

How on earth did you pull this off? So appealing musically and lyrically.

@fantex 3d

Loved it, clever lyrics and as always awesome fingerpicking.

@newukenewyork 3d

I like how you sneak sideways into what’s going on behind the lines, especially with the nods to watching the Olympics and that final stanza. And I love how you slide around the implied “you” in “ World to…somebody just” and in “line/(mine)” by interrupting yourself.

Great musical composition, too.

@pabrizzer 3d

your dumbest is my brill

@debs 3d

Okay this is not dumb, this is great. 😀 When I read the first stanza before the music got there I thought that you were just going to stop awkwardly after "On the way, to the" but nope! It just kept beautifully flowing along. Love your voice and the guitar work.