Narratives: Serena

I began this assignment by thinking about how it feels to walk around a grocery store, picking up all the items that later appear on a receipt. I’d always rather be somewhere else, so I started daydreaming about what it might be like if my mapping site, a wildlife refuge and park, were interwoven with the grocery store experience. Wouldn’t that be nice?

It somehow turned into a song this afternoon. I’m not sure what happened and I’m very embarrassed. But since I did the thing I guess I have to share the thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlw7YwiimY8

Lyrics & chords:
A F#m E7

Grocery store
Why am I so bored

Grocery store
Just another chore

Let’s can the morning breeze
That whispers from the seas
Save it for yourself

We’ll gather all the leaves
And vacuum pack the trees
Then pluck them off the shelf

Bottle up a birdsong,
Now it can be heard long
After it flies away

And package every feather
Nestled in the heather
And floating along the bay

Grocery store
The products I adore

Grocery store
Buying more and more

I’m walking down the aisle
And I can’t help but smile
At lizards in the sun

I’ll watch them for a while
Then storks in single file
Lift off one by one

And when we reach the checkout
We’ll pay with a high-tech trout
Get our change in mice

A happy band of crickets
Check our parking ticket
What a paradise

Grocery store
I’m sitting by the shore

Grocery store
Let’s go explore