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Susan Hwang wrote and performed this song for the October 2011 performance of The Bushwick Book Club inspired by Jim Ottaviani's "Feynman." For more Susan Hwang, please visit susanhwanglalala.com.

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Are you looking for an idea?
Go to the beach go to the beach
Are you looking for the answer to helium?
Go to the beach go to the beach
Because it doesn’t get any easier the more you try.
You’ll get the answer to your problem
When you tap at it light.

Tap tap at it light
If it doesn’t make you laugh, you’re not doing it right.
Nature is messy, absurd.
If you don’t like it, go find yourself another universe, tap tap.

Tap at it light.
If you want to solve the problem of helium,
Just fight the urge to fight for an idea.
The more you chase them, the more they seem to flee ya’.

You work and you work for the things you want to know
But the pounding at the problems only seems to make them grow.
If it’s getting the better of you, then better let it go.
If the decision is hard, then decide not to decide.
It’s better to tap at it light.

Tap tap at it light…
What do you care what people think.
People will do what they’re gonna.
Politics and people stink.
They’re all mugga wugga mugga wugga….

Tap tap at it light.
Nature has always been a mess
That’s just how it has to be.
Even Feynman did confess
He couldn’t explain gravity… tap tap tap at it light

But he knew enough to never
Self torture with remorse.
And he knew that the answer is nothing to be forced
If you don’t care what you accomplish, you can do it all for fun
Crack a safe or Quantum Electrodynamics
Just to prove it can be done.

Tap tap at it light…
If it doesn’t make you laugh you’re not doing it right
Nature is messy, absurd
If you don’t like, go find yourself another universe tap tap

Tap at it light.
To get what you're after,
the question is never
what to feel but what to do,
checking the circumstances still match too.

Oh Joan, can I call you back. I just discovered a new law of nature that no one else knows. It feels great.

credits

from Bushwick Book Club presents "Feynman" by Jim Ottaviani, released October 7, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday on October 7th, 2011. Photo by Herb Scher (herbscher.com)

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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