Discombobulation

29/07/2025 1 min
Discombobulation

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Episode Synopsis

This is a song I wrote in June/July 2025 for no particular reason. It plays with the word discombobulation, which means an embarrassing feeling that leaves a person confused, or a confused or disorderly state, and was coined in the USA some time in the early 19th century.

This recording features me on vocals, guitar, cavaquinho, descant recorder, tenor recorder and (GarageBand) drums. Here are the words:

Discombobulation
is causing consternation
and fueling frustration
among the population

Much misinformation
and devious deception
creeps like a conflagration
across the whole nation

There's a lot of lamentation
and not much motivation,
and a deep disinclination
to solve the situation

Cool cooperation
and calm communication
and deft determination
can cause combobulation

By the way, combobulation means the opposite of discombobulation; i.e. means an orderly, composed, organized state.

See also: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discombobulate#English
https://www.omniglot.com/radio/?p=4024

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