[s0] Lyrical alteration draft: “44100”

[chalcedony_starlings]

This one was inspired by one of Avian Invasion's Progressive Birdhouse DJ sets on Twitch, in which there was a poll about physical audio formats. It's a riff on Above & Beyond's “Thing Called Love”:

[Verse 1] Start with a clock, a sampling rate A Nyquist frequency From pressure wave to logic gate The PCM flows free Glass master burns with coherent light A careful mix laid on every track Two channels, left entwined with right If there's mistakes, you can't go back [Hook 1] (Now) press a compact disc full of lands and pits Error correcting codes where the laser hits Soon every boombox sold will know just how to play a compact disc Albums now, they're coming out on compact disc [Verse 2] Through tech advance and sales decline I wonder how I'll feel If plastic case and rainbow shine End up like reel-to-reel Will we have lost our one last way To know our sounds stay as they were? Convenience mounts with online play Do local files make for safe return? [Hook 2] MPEG and Vorbis frames cross the Internet Opus and AAC, more efficient yet Listen on your PC, or take it with you on a cute handset Streams and files of music through the Internet [repeat Hook 2]

The last double hook feels like it could use to be two separate stanzas instead of a repeat—since I'm already changing the repeat structure, AAA → ABC (or ABA, but that feels harder to pull off) would feel cleaner than AAA → ABB. Hmm.