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Maybe I’m new to the party, but I just discovered the interrobang and, idk, I really like it. Does anyone else use it‽‽‽

Anyway here’s a song I wrote about it

Verse 1

Saw it scribbled in the margin of a late-night note

Half a question, half a fire that somebody wrote

Like a spark that didn’t know if it should shout or sing

Just a crooked little lightning bolt with a hook and a sting

Teacher said “you gotta choose, son, what you mean to say”

But the truth don’t move in straight lines anyway

It was wonder and it thunder in the same small mark

Like a match struck twice in the dark

Chorus

Hey now, what do you mean‽

Is it doubt or is it dream‽

Every answer splits the seam

Of a wild in-between‽

Hey now, let it hang loose

Don’t pin it down, don’t tie the noose

Let it shimmer, let it clang

Sing it out—interrobang‽

Verse 2

Met a girl in Cincinnati with a sideways grin

Said she loved the kind of trouble you can’t keep in

She spoke in riddles, never landed where you thought she would

Every word like a “maybe” dressed up as a “should”

She said “why’s it gotta settle when it could just spin?”

“Why’s it gotta end before it can begin?”

And she drew that mark in the dust on my hand

Said “this is where we stand”

Chorus

Hey now, what do you mean‽

Is it truth or in between‽

Every whisper leans unseen

To a place we’ve never been‽

Hey now, let it ride

Through the questions we can’t hide

Let it echo, hear it sang

Roll it out—interrobang‽

Breakdown (jam feel)

Is it love or is it lightning‽

Is it wrong or just inviting‽

Is it falling or is it flying‽

Is it living or just trying‽

(Instrumental stretch—guitar drifting, keys circling, rhythm loose and breathing)

Verse 3

Now I’m older and the lines don’t feel so clear

Got a pocket full of answers that just disappear

Every time I think I’ve got it, it just slips away

Like a note you almost played

So I write it in the margins of another song

Where the right and wrong dissolve and drift along

If you’re asking me, I think it’s where we belong

In the maybe all along

Final Chorus

Hey now, what do you mean‽

Is it ending or a scene‽

Every silence in between

Holds a thousand unseen‽

Hey now, let it ring

Every doubt’s a living thing

Let it question everythang

Leave it hangin’—interrobang‽

Outro

Half a whisper, half a flame

Call it wonder, call it name

Call it nothing you can claim

Just the spark that never came…

Or did it‽