FAWM: "Get Away With It"

Get Away With It

2025 by @edwinb

Liner Notes

This is (I think) my third attempt at writing a song about imposter syndrome. I haven't liked any of my previous goes. I suppose I'm just not very good at it (ho ho ho).

Now that I've recorded it and listened back, it's not obvious to me if the narrator feels like an imposter (which is what I had in mind) or whether they're genuinely incompetent and trying to hide it. I might tweak it, or I might just leave it like that.

Either way, it's a simple bit of #ukulele #folk, straight to laptop since I'm away with merely a uke and a laptop (and a notebook with scribbled ideas :)) until Monday. But I suppose sometimes that's all you need... #fuc

Lyrics

Walking past reception with A bold determined stride Confident and thoughtful At least on the outside

Saying our good mornings Settle down and make a start Feel somebody's watching So try to look the part

And if I don't get rumbled I will Still collect my pay So perhaps I'll get away with it For one more day

Reeling off the jargon Like it was their native tongue Sharpening their pencils To tick off todos now done

While I act like I belong here And put on the proper show But please don't ask me anything That I'm not going to know

If I don't get rumbled I will Still collect my pay Perhaps I'll get away with it For one more day

They must be keeping score Counting up the flaws I'll keep on strumming Though you've heard this one before

And even while I'm churning out The same old tired rhymes Perhaps I'll get away with it One more time

If I don't get rumbled I will Still collect my pay Perhaps I'll get away with it For one more day

Perhaps I'll get away with it For one more day

Comments

@dr_griff 2025

Thematically, this feels so familiar (painfully so). We should have an Impostor Syndrome theme circle sometime; I have two or three songs I could bring to the party. "Perhaps I'll get away with it/One more day" - ouch, but so true for so many of us.

Musically, I like your chord progression, and your melody works well with it. As always, good, solid vocals and good, solid uke playing. There's nothing I don't like, musically speaking.

@janeg 2025

I would say untrained rather than incompetent - and that means someone else is the real imposter. But I sure have felt like that. Well done.

@philkmills 2025

I like the song, especially the "must be keeping score Counting up the flaws" bit. I know the feeling of expecting someone to say, "OK, let's get serious. This joke has gone on long enough."

(My personal version of imposter syndrome has always been more about adulthood than work, but anyway....)

@robertrwb 2025

Highly relatable. I remember being called in to an office room by two managers and knew I was going to fired. I was promoted.

@headfirstonlyMod 2025

Great fun. I like the ambiguity; I'd leave it as it is. "Perhaps I'll get away with it for one more day" is a great hook, too.

@pabrizzer 2025

ha ha - this is the song i thought many of those up the food chain from me should have been singing - it's a real good write

@tawny249 2025

"Unnecessarily relatable lyrics" about sums it up, thanks @marilisa . But yeah, I like the little melodic run up on "get away with it", it seems like a musical shrug, which may or may not be what you intended - but take the compliment that it's clever? 😜

@coolparadisoMod 2025

Perhaps you are an imposter of imposter songs! I think you got it pretty right here! One of my old age pleasures is I don’t care anymore. Nice start up! Take ya money anyway as you say!