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Skydiving Naked (Patreon)

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year One by Mary Crowell

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This is a response to the song prompt "what a way to go." I was in the car driving thinking about the other song prompt and how I had two or three song ideas for it, but WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO WITH 'What a way to go'? I started imagining really ridiculously over the top dangerous things to do simultaneously. Then suddenly I was singing the first verse. I recorded it into my phone as soon as I could get a chance to singing it over and over.

The resulting song stayed amazingly true to the timing and tune of that burst of inspiration, although I wasn't expecting the crankiness about being ignored for texting to turn out to be a motif that carried throughout the song. (I text a LOT just so you know. I don't judge people for texting. However, I don't plan to do it while skydiving any time soon.)

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Skydiving Naked
(What a Way to Go)
Copyright 2016 by Mary Crowell
Written for Soulwriters2 April prompt

Sky diving naked
Eating lemon cream and fudge,
I swim over through the air
To give you just a nudge
Because you’re texting again
After complaining that you are bored.
Just a couple seconds more
It’ll be time to pull the cord.
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!

We're rock climbing sideways
While below us zombies moan.
Just laughing to myself—
Stopped paying on your loan.
I've heard you texting again,
After complaining that you are bored.
Just a couple seconds more
Guido and Spike won't be ignored.
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!


Bridge:
We try to spend time together,
But I can't seem to catch your eye.
You're playing games, or you're checking the weather,
I watch you searching on your phone for new apps to buy.

Out dancing tangos
In a treetop with some apes.
Their arms are strong enough
To crush our skulls like grapes.
Somehow you're texting again
After complaining that you are bored.
Just a couple seconds more
Kiki will show you you're adored.
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!
What a way to go!

credits

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year One, released June 3, 2017
Mary Crowell vocals and keyboard and other MIDI instruments via Logic Pro 9

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey! ... more

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