A Two Little Woodpeckers entry for you, Ylle.
It is a poem we put to music.
Four-Second Memory by Brian Moses
Is it a fact or is it a hype
That a goldfish suffers a memory wipe
Every time four seconds passes by
And if it's true, does he wonder why?
Perhaps that's why he's happy to swim
Round and round in his tank, nothing bothers him.
Four seconds and then his mind is wiped clean,
Four seconds and he's no idea where he's been.
So every circuit's a different view,
Every circuit brings something new.
Does he ever get feelings of 'deja-vu'
Or say to another fish, 'Don't I know you,
Haven't we met some place before?'
But after four seconds the slam of a door
Erases the thought from his memory bank
And he'll take another tour of his tank.
In the goldfish world there could never be
Any sense of goldfish history.
They could never follow serials on TV,
Their lives must be one big mystery-
What did I do, what have I seen,
Who did I meet, where have I been?
Do they suffer four seconds of stress,
Could one ever be called as a witness?
'Where were you on the night of the crime?'
He'd really have no notion of time.
Adrift in the water, he's floating and flowing
With only four seconds to know where he's going,
Four seconds and then his mind is wiped clean
And the goldfish has no idea where he's been.
joo - voice, baritone uke
jon - tenor resonator guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo uke, glockenspiel, shaker