Jam Mechanics S4E03: An Urban Bird

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In Episode 3, we continue on our quest to finish the internet, 2 clicks at a time. We'll be radically honest here: you're going to love both of these songs

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Bottle Rocket Astronaut

Prompt Page: 2 Fast, 2 Furious -> Nitrous oxide -> Whippits

Lyrics:

I am Burt (the Urban Bird), I've got one wing that doesn't work

But I've built a bottle rocket that'll lift me off the earth

shoot for the stars? that ain't me. I would settle for that tree

be like everybody else who can get up there easily

 

If you try to pin me down I will get up off the ground

 

I am a bottle rocket astronaut and all I wants the same thing

everybody's got already, make it look so easy

I've been gracious, I've been patient

natural selection never saw me comin', baby

 

I am Burt (the urban bird), I've got one wing that doesn't work

I've got whippets in my nest but if they ask, you never heard that

wanna raid me? they can try -- here's a slice of pumpkin pie

all the while I'm expanding to a full-fledged enterprise

 

See that goldfish in the birdbath? you get 3 hints to guess who did that

we put a turtle on a mailbox and hedgehog on a trashcan

and we've got funding coming through and big announcements coming soon

we pledge by 2026 we'll put a gopher on the roof

 

[Chorus]

 

I am a bottle rocket astronaut and all I wants the same thing

everybody's got already, make it look so easy

I've been gracious, I've been patient

and we've got charlie darwin freakin rollin' in his grave, eeey!

 

(Little critters in the sky)

(Little critters where they don't belong)

 

I am Burt (the urban bird), keep me down? it doesn't work.

 

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: A Mile and Change

Prompt Page: Weather Pains -> NOAA -> Deep Sea Exploration

Lyrics:

tie a cannonball to a fishing line

and toss it overboard

let it sink right to the bottom boys

and discover how deep it goes

and you can swear to the stars with a hand on your heart to

everybody when you get back home

that you touched the bottom of the ocean floor

 

I know you men, I know you well

When I look at you, I see myself

The coaxing waves, that beckon us in

We'd travel to the ends of the earth just to swing our feet over the edge

 

And when I sleep, I hear the call

The howling void, beneath our hull

Goes on forever, ha, that's so absurd

and we'll know better, by the time the sun sets we'll know for sure

 

tie a cannonball to a fishing line

and toss it overboard

let it sink right to the bottom boys

and discover how deep it goes

and you can swear to the stars with a hand on your heart to

everybody when you get back home

that you touched the bottom of the ocean floor

 

 

We let it drop, for a mile and change

We didn't talk, as the evening came

And we only stopped cause the line ran tight

Would have kept on going if we could but we got the sense we could have gone all night

 

And as the morning sun bore down on us

And the ocean yawned, indifferent

It goes on forever, and I haven't slept

Cause I dream of the beasts in the infinite deep and wake in a swear

 

we tied a cannonball to a fishing line

and tossed it overboard

let it sink over a mile and

and we discovered how deep this goes

now we can swear to the stars with a hand on our heart to

everybody when we get back home

that there isn't any bottom of the ocean floor

floooooooooooooooooooooooooooor