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What were we talking about?

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         F
We were talkin bout sumpin / It's hard to go back

And pick up the whole of the thread
        Dm
We were talkin bout sumpin / It's hard to keep track
       F
Of the meaning of what you said

      Bb
You responded to me saying sumpin to
    Gm
The reply that I made in response to you
       C7
Saying sumpin to me about sumpin because...
      Bb                 F
But I don't know what it was.

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        F
We were talkin bout sumpin / Wherever it led

Isn't where our messages go
        Dm
We were talkin bout sumpin / You had just said
       F
It was very important to know

       Bb
And to keep it in mind / In a crowd or alone
     Gm
Then I had to stop / To answer the phone
C7
When I returned / You had forgot
      Bb                   F
What it was in relation to what

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Thursday, February 7, 2002 - 12:00

rotary dial The song idea originally arose from repeated experience of lost conversation threads on computer message boards on Compuserve, back before most people (including myself) had heard of a WWW.
This is my first published MP3. I could've waited until I had a decent recording. But I didn't. This recording began as an audiocassette tape recording made in March of 2001. When transferring the tape to computer, I didn't notice that the cassette's variable-speed knob was high, so the whole recording was a little helium-ish. After filtering out the hiss, I lowered the pitch to (almost) simulate what my voice is supposed to sound like. Audio wizardry done with Cool Edit 96 (long since gobbled up by Adobe). WAV file encoded into MP3 with CDEX.
Published to mindfulwebworks.com, 2007 Apr 25. Reformatted 2011 Sep 26.
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