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Friction Bill

from Every Song in the Universe by Brian Gray

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I started working on a song for SpinTunes round #4. Honestly I did. It was going to be the most amazing piece of music ever written. But I got sidetracked, so instead this is what I did with my time. It's based on an idea I had a long long time ago, that being to imagine a world without friction. Not necessarily all friction though. I mean, we really don't need the entropic soup that would result from lack of internal friction. No, just dry friction between solid objects (in case anyone really needs to get pedantic).

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[Verse 1]
A fond farewell. The world comes crashing down.
Everything around has come undone.
A broken spell. A slippery slope ahead
It feels like Armageddon has begun.

Smashed in a wreck, all we have created
Cause they mailed in the check thirty days too late
To pay the friction bill.

[Verse 2]
Screws and nails fail to fasten beams,
Although rivets seem to hold things tight.
Small details, levels just off-true,
I must admit that Newton got it right.

It's not in my brain. It's not some evil plot,
Or ruptured science main. Someone just forgot
To pay the friction bill.

[Verse 3]
Flat on the ground. Push yourself off walls.
Careful as you're falling down the stairs.
Controlled rebound. Found an open lot
Just so nothing caught you unawares.

No guarantee that they'll bring it back on spec.
You must tender personally cash or cashiers' check
To pay the friction bill.

[Verse 4]
So here we are: normal, average folk,
Circling the local minimum.
A bizarre bazaar gliding 'round this pit
Witnessing what this city has become.

You can't help but love just how much it sucks
That it's all a matter of forty-seven bucks
To pay the friction bill.

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from Every Song in the Universe, track released August 18, 2010

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