Fives // 7in7 // Piano & Vox
Liner Notes
Written and Recorded on July 7, 2024 by Mr. Tyler Larson
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Prompt: Use your last 3 words from "Wordle"...
Wild thing about this prompt is that I don't really play phone games... I'd never played Wordle before. Let alone had a history of 3 words to pull from... so I played it for the first time. I read the rules... pretty simple... and then started the game. 5 empty boxes... The world was my oyster... but all of a sudden I was convinced that there weren't ANY five-letter words in the English language because I was drawing an anxiety-driven blank. If I was a chameleon, I would've been strobing my colours 'cuz my brain was TILTing (pinball term, anybody?)... I did end up figuring it out... but it was kind of a boring word so I told my wife this story and she told me that I should write a song about how Five-Letter words don't exist... but make the majority of the song Five-letter words... so... that's exactly what I did! Here's "FIVES":
THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
TIMID and ANGRY, i TRIED & TRIED
STUDY & LOGIC WOULD LIMIT my PRIDE
CAUSE THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
PANIC & WORRY: NEVER my FRIEND
GUILT is a HABIT so SHAME on THESE TRENDS
CANON in STORY BOOKS WORDS on the PAGES
i TRIED to make SENSE as my BRAIN SPASM RAGES
THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
TIMID and ANGRY, i TRIED & TRIED
STUDY & LOGIC WOULD LIMIT my PRIDE
CAUSE THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
i WASN’T SETUP for PHONE KINDS of GAMES
the FATAL FLAWS of WRONG or RIGHT all START to
FORCE THEIR CLAIMS
THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
TIMID and ANGRY, i TRIED & TRIED
STUDY & LOGIC WOULD LIMIT my PRIDE
CAUSE THERE AREN’T any WORDS to SPELL in FIVES
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Also: "Guilt is a habit" - wow, I was no expecting such a truth bomb.