FAWM: "Would We Do It All Again?"

Would We Do It All Again?

2025 by @carleybaer

Liner Notes

During my 14-songs-in-a-day feast, I started pulling from the Bad Song Club prompt box to get inspiration, and this one was "the peril of choice." I remarked in the slack chat that it took me 4 decades to finally write a song with the Pachelbel Canon chords.

Lyrics

if we were omniscient could see the paths laid out for us behind each door, no mystery just certainty, splendiferous but we are tethered to this plane and to this pain we are inured we cannot have it every way a choice is made, a path assured

but what of what could never be and what might have been if we knew the outcome would we do it all again

the information that we claim to use to our benefit is incomplete, but all the same we do all we can with it and every moment is the best that we can ever hope to do and then we lie awake at night and wonder if that’s really true

decision stems the tide every time we decide more options disappear until the last choice is clear

Comments

@betoMod 2025

So good! The beginning sounded like Pachelbel, but then it took a life of its own! Beautiful message in the song and in the delivery!

@beacon 2025

Lovely and wistful. It's sort of just making a statement and letting the listener figure it out.

@cathreu 2025

What a wholesome and sweet tune. It's a swayer

@leslie333 2025

A charming song and using the Pachelbel chords without being super noticeable - a neat trick!

@yam655 2025

While I certainly have thoughts on the subject matter of the song, as they start out with, "Well, first I don't believe in time," I'll just stop right there. 😉 It's not really the place for that sort of discussion.

It's a lovely song. I'm sure it rings true for more people than not.

@ductapeguyMod 2025

So familiar, filled with hard won wisdom. This is a keeper.

@berni1954 2025

I was waltzing in my studio chair (on casters) to this. I think that if we had access to a time machine, so as to remain who we are, we would need to ensure our past self relived exactly what we did the first time round in order to ensure we became who we are today. We are the product of pour reactions to past experiences and the lessons we learned from them.