Friend from Ancient Greece

from Song a Week Project by Andy Lowe

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Song a week #50
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I’d like to build myself a time machine
And whizz back to antiquity
And find some thoughtful gent
Like, maybe Aristotle
And I would bring him on a voyage
To my present time and place
And educate him as a friend
Maybe we’d share a bottle
As I’d present to his bewildered face
The crowning achievements of the human race

Come on Aristotle, check out my phone
One of the many modern gadgets I own
With it I can find out anything
Play chess with someone in Beijing
Oh yeah Aristotle, you like the theatre?
I’ve got a heap of movies waiting to meet ya
You’ll never believe your old Greek eyes
When I show you Return of the Jedi

Then after weeks of revelation
Aeroplanes and submarines
Papa John’s, Ben and Jerry’s
I’d take him back to his time
I’d listen as he wowed his peers
Regaled them with epiphanies
Tried to describe the sound of jazz
To their confused expressions
And I’d be sure to record some of his words
A sample of the wonderment that had occurred
And here, is, the whole, point of the song so listen up!

Come on everybody, look at all this
Our world defies all likelihood to exist
The device that you’re watching me on right now
Was constructed from rocks we found lying in the ground
Don’t you think that that’s stunning?
Aren’t you grateful for wi-fi and plumbing?
We should be thrilled at the very least
Just ask my friend from ancient Greece

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from Song a Week Project, released May 6, 2020

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Andy Lowe is a multi-instrumentalist and music producer following his unquenchable curiosity into new electronic realms. With a penchant for playfulness and storytelling, Andy creates sound worlds that defy easy description and genre pigeonholing.

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