"Essential Ant Worker" is the eighth track of the "Things Have Been Better" solo #TrashFolk album by Daniel J. Neumann. I was inspired by the Facebook group where people pretend to be ants in a colony. I used a baritone ukulele in standard tuning, my voice, and audio-editing in Audacity. Vocals recorded with a Yeti Blue Nano. Instrument recorded with S20 smartphone in one take. The thumbnail was photographed by Egor Kamelev from Pexels. The video was shot using a Galaxy S20 smartphone. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The lyrics are below:
I work hard for the colony
If there's enemies, I bite.
If tunnel 931 were to collapse,
And it pleases the Queen, I'll dig.
When she hatches younglings,
I swear an oath to protecc.
It's my purpose to work.
Discovering some morning dew
I hydrate and sip.
Finding a jolly rancher,
I lay down a scent and lift.
There is no ant without the colony
There is no colony without the Queen.
Every role is essential.
Every larva has potential.
Dig, my comrades, and lift.
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"Prayer for Suffering" was created by Daniel J. Neumann in the genre of #TrashFolk. It's part of the "Road to the Kingdom" album.
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"Beast That Is Yet Is Not" was created by Daniel J. Neumann in the genre of #TrashFolk. The lyrics are below:
Beat a deer flying
With your metal rock
Back of the lens shining
The last face of a clock
Death is grass in a burnt field
A beast that is, yet is not
Oh where art thou pen to jot?
Academia, is that all you got?
Surprised? Guess you forgot
Those codes aren't for digits
Fingers are for building
Looks like the town is lost
Invisible fire from a genie
This curse you wrought
With slick slides and grants
You should've asked for mercy
From the Master
Instead, you cast doubt
Where is a woman's touch
On a gadget that spills guts?
Disembodied disembowel
How now Brown cow?
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