This version was recorded on Tape 16, an app that forces me to practice… a LOT. It doesn’t let you edit your recording… it just emulates perfectly a 1980s reel to reel tape recorder. You really have to know what your arrangement is when you start and you commit to choices early. By contrast, I have an AI recorded version here.

So it seems that the teams are all picked

And I’m the last of the cans that you kicked

But I can write a melody

And I can strum three chords and sing in key

So tell me why, why not me

It’s funny that you say we’re alive

And it’s sad cause you know it’s a lie

Crazy how we tell ourselves a story about all our stupid why’s

Well here’s one more, why not I

Why is irrelevant, ask me Who and How

Where is your reverence for the here and now

Which room has The Elephant, who’s your sacred cow 

How many pray for one day of your pain

You say that the world is a mess

But I betcha that you have to confess

The one who quits before it’s through 

Looks a little bit like you know who

So tell me why, why not you

But you just kept bitchin’ at the gig last night

Crying cause it didn’t seem right

You ask me why I don’t agree

You got no pot to piss in cant you see

Now we know why, why not we

Why is irrelevant, ask me who and how

Where is your reverence for the here and now

Which room has The Elephant, who’s your sacred cow 

How many pray for one day of your pain

So when it seems that the teams are all picked

And you’re the last of the cans that they kicked

Go and write a melody 

Strum your chords and sing that song in key

Tell ‘em why, Wynonna why, why the hell not me