Nur Ein XVIII Round Two "The Numbers Don't Lie"

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Nur Ein XVIII Round Two "The Numbers Don't Lie"

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The Numbers Don't Lie
Stacking Theory

Well. It's certainly been a week. So here's a song.

You'll figure it out.

edit: the Royal Road is manifest in the first section of the song, in the key of B - Emaj7 F#7 D#m7 G#m

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the numbers don’t lie
but they don’t tell the truth
they can not describe
the pain in her eyes
as she flies

the numbers don’t know
what it means to lose
they won’t ever feel
the weight of the heel
that’s grinding her down

one in three since the age of fifteen
ten a day into hospital
one in three from someone they know
one per week gone forever

you don’t need the numbers
no you don’t need the numbers
no you don’t need the numbers to understand
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Re: Nur Ein XVIII Round 2 - The Numbers Don't Lie

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"The Numbers Don't Lie" - Third Cat

every detail's in place
even the way you scrunch your face
when I say something
you don't think is too funny

the numbers don't lie
but they're not true
they're only
the echoes of you

now I can see your dance
but I wish there was another chance
to say "I love you"
so that you can hear me

the numbers don't lie
but they're not true
they're only
the echoes of you

(repeat chorus)

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re: the challenge: the intro / verses / break / solo are only using the royal road progression (in A: Dmaj7-E7-C#m7-F#m7) and the chorus starts with it before finishing differently (Dmaj7-E7-C#m7-F#m7-Bm7-E7-Amaj7)
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The Numbers Don't Lie

Instrumental mini chorus (head)
Chorus riff IV-V-iii-vi (D-E-C#m-F#m)

Verse 1
F#m - A - E
Get the escape act underway
Come bring my car around, I cannot stay
It isn’t cowardice to flee
When the advantage will come home with me

Chorus
Chorus riff IV-V-iii-vi (D-E-C#m-F#m)
It’s time to raise my bet
But the numbers don’t lie
I’ll stand, shake hands
Gotta roll gotta fly

Verse 2
F#m - A - E
I will politely take my leave
Such happy memories, my thanks receive
But truth be told I’d just as well
Just duck out silently, the Irish farewell

E-bow Solo
A transitory bit that’s basically A-E

Bridge
Post-transitory that doubles down on A
I am myself again
The minute I’m alone
I cannot keep a friend
To save my tailbone

Chorus
Chorus riff IV-V-iii-vi (D-E-C#m-F#m)
It’s time to raise my bet
But the numbers don’t lie
I’ll stand, shake hands
Gotta roll gotta fly


Coda
Walkdown from D to A (x2)
Post-walkdown F C G A (x3)

You cut your losses great or small
If you would keep your skin at all
No matter who will laugh or cry
The numbers don’t lie

Outro
Chorus riff IV-V-iii-vi (D-E-C#m-F#m)
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The Numbers Don’t Lie
by glennny

Mu
The devil’s in the details
What will you do?
You should listen to me
‘cuz I am Mu

Why can’t you see me?
I’m not nothing at all
Please just believe me
Numbers don’t lie

Why can’t you be nice
I’m just the mean
You might want to think twice
Numbers don’t lie

Zero
Some say I’m nothing
But I’m much more
I’m the perfect balance
Meta five or metaphor

Just call me Zero
I’m willing to take the fall
I’m not a hero
Numbers don’t lie

I’m when water turns to ice
I’m right on par
I got snubbed by the pips on dice
Numbers don’t lie

i
i is irrational
but i is true
i is irrational
but so are you

i is irrational (divided by zero)
but i is true (divided by zero)
i is irrational (divided by zero)
but so are you (divided by zero)

Figures
Figures won’t fib
But liars do figure
Numbers don’t lie
Your small lies seem bigger
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The Numbers Don’t Lie
- slimeparty

Multiplication
Adding dividing
Solving equations is so satisfying
Sometimes they are irrational, maybe even odd
But digits are my my deity, geometry my god

Because the numbers never lie
They never look you in the eye and lie like you do
Baby

You and me
One and one were two together
A binary system that I thought would last forever
But that all came to zero
When you cheated on me
And it seems the times you did it has grown exponentially

The numbers never lie
But they can grow very high
I'm gonna miss you
Baby

You can call me a nerd
You can call me a geek
But the solace of numbers is what I see
When I see an equation I know what to do
But no polynomial can describe you
I can't graph it, can't solve it
I'll never integrate with you

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

The numbers never lie
They never look you in the eye and lie like you do
Baby
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Chorus is a variation on a minor Royal Road followed by a bog standard Royal Road (Am, C): Dm Em C Am F G Em Am
Outro repeats the F G Em Am
The verse plays around with the chords from the Royal Road but it's all over Am in the bass, so whatever, it doesn't really count.

Numbers Don’t Lie by ellipsis

You think you got me over the turn
Keep your eyes locked on me
Stare into my frozen face
Try to see what you can see

I know what you want
You don’t know what I need
Chips down, cards up
I’m the action man
You’re an open book for me to read

In the mirror I look like a loser
But the numbers don’t lie
Aces in the hole but you’ll never know
The numbers don’t lie

One eyed Jacks setting traps
But I look innocent and true
Be careful what you wish for
My eyes will whisper it to you

In the mirror I look like a loser
But the numbers don’t lie
Aces in the hole but you’ll never know
The numbers don’t lie

They call me the grand old man
But I’m young at heart
Diamond in the rough
Pressure never cracks me apart

When the river comes it’s a flood
Hear the levee break
Close your eyes as I reveal my hand
Now your hand starts to shake

Look in the mirror, the face of a loser
Cuz the numbers don’t lie
Aces in the hole but you’ll never know
The numbers don’t lie
But I do
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Chorus uses the Royal Road progression in C Major, FMaj7–G7–Em7–Am (this was the example given on Wikipedia and I am nothing if not lazy)

This song didn't really go where I intended, at a certain point I decided to just roll with it and recorded a Pet Shop Boys style sing speaky verse halfway through, which I'm not sure works but fuck it, why the hell not.

This song is about the current state of moral panic and transphobia in British politics and media, which is really shit. One thing the media does a lot is distort, misrepresent or completely falsify evidence to support their transphobia - a good example is the article from the guardian this week, in which they claim "less than half in Britain back gender-affirming care for trans teenagers" - https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -teenagers. A quick look at the actual polling in the article shows that 47% of UK residents think trans teenagers should be allowed to receive gender-affirming care, while only 35% don't. Take out the 'don't knows' and its 57% in favour.

So I was thinking about that when writing this song and how fucked up it is that people have gotten caught up in this manufactured culture war bullshit

The Lowest Bitter - The Numbers Don't Lie

who's left to trust
in a kingdom of disgust
with the attacks coming every day
when they falsify and fearmonger at every turn
and when you challenge it,
they only say
they say, they'll say "we have reasonable concerns"
but what they mean, they really mean
is "we wanna see you burn"

(an amoral panic! yeah everybody's at it! oh god!)
they hit you with the evidence
the numbers don't lie
they just get twisted out of context,
massaged to sell a story I won't buy

don't you know we're all just crabs in the same godforsaken bucket
you let them choreograph your claws while they're skimming off the budget
the way they conjure up a culture war, it's classic misdirection,
you've been sold the myth of decadence in a decade long recession

they say, they'll say "we have reasonable concerns"
but what they mean, they really mean
is "we wanna see you burn"

(an amoral panic! yeah everybody's at it! oh god!)
they hit you with the evidence
the numbers don't lie
they just get twisted out of context,
massaged to sell a story I won't buy
(an amoral panic! yeah everybody's at it! oh god!)
they hit you with the evidence
the numbers don't lie
they just get twisted out of context,
massaged to sell a story I won't buy

the numbers don't lie, a story I won't buy
the numbers don't lie, a story I won't buy
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The Numbers Don’t Lie (shadow)
Lichen Throat

[The Royal Road chord progression is in the verses. Key = B major]

If you live here for a month,
You can get a divorce.
A vacancy on the sign out front,
And they’ll take it, of course.
All those diamond wedding rings
Thrown in the Truckee River
Can never take away the sting,
And coats can’t stop the shivers.
Sometimes knaves beat the queens,
And ace is sometimes high.
You never hit on seventeen
Because the numbers don’t lie.

They say the house always wins,
At cards, roulette, and craps.
The cherried wheels only spin
With money from these saps.
The croupier sweeps the rake
With both sixes down.
Suckers give and casinos take
The money in this town.
It all looks like a lot of fun
To naïve passersby,
But bad luck comes at twenty-one,
Because the numbers don’t lie.

The Washoe Zephyr chills the skin
Beneath the snowy peaks.
This little city, built on sin,
Sometimes feels so bleak.

What happens to unwanted rings
And watches changed for chips?
For half price I can buy these things—
That’s entrepreneurship.
Instead of one ball of roulette,
I’ll hang three balls for pawn.
That way I’ll win every bet
And have gold like leprechauns.
If you’re not back in thirty days,
Your stuff becomes all mine,
But I profit either way,
Because the numbers don’t lie.
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The Numbers Don't Lie
Eric Novak
(in key of c#, royal road in intro and pre-chorus)

I like my science and I like my math
Oh so rational
I like to lay out the steps in my path
Map out each phase as I move through the world
And take action
'Cause as we all know
The numbers don't lie

We don't get anything done
Take any measure
Lay it out end to end
We still come up lacking

We can't count anything done
If that's true why bother
Not enough to push and bend
Not enough to love each other
'Cause as we all know
As we all know
The numbers don't lie

I remember dreaming of being with you
I'd give you anything
I'd try to write you the perfect tune
Map out the royal road to your heart
with precision
'Cause as we all know
The numbers don't lie

We don't get anything done
By any measure
Lay it out end to end
We still come up lacking

We can't count anything done
If that's true why bother
I guess it's not enough to push and bend
Not enough to love each other
'Cause as we all know
As we all know
The numbers don't lie
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The Numbers Don't Lie
Virgo Power

NOTES: Royal Road progression is in the chorus (F G Em Am)

Of all the people that I met
when I was growing up
very few liked my vibe, I guess
I felt like giving up

I was the girl who talked too loud
didn't care what clothes you wore
I made up a fantasy world
it was better than the one I lived in

Numbers don't lie
I'm an acquired taste
Numbers don't lie
I'm not for everyone

chorus:
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
They don't lie! oh-oh-oh-oh
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
They don't lie!


Of all the people that we met
when our band did play out
very few liked our sound, I guess
we felt like giving up

we made songs that were too strange
and we weren't too cool to care
one of these things is not like the others
and we were that square peg

Numbers don't lie
we're an acquired taste
Numbers don't lie
we're not for everyone

Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
They don't lie!
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
They don't lie!
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers
They don't lie!
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After all this playing around with GarageBand and staying up past my bedtime, the one thing I’m stuck on is that I missed a syllable singing “inevitability” goddamnit !!!!

The Numbers Don’t Lie

What’s the probability of you and me?
Is there a possibility that we could be
very much the same in ways that I
always was afraid that we might be?

Hide myself away while you’re asleep
What a pleasant company these problems keep
Pages upon pages upon pages
upon all the fears that fester and linger
and creep in

Ah, the numbers don’t lie
Ah, the numbers don’t lie
Ah, how cruel and callous the time feels
as it passes by
The numbers don’t lie

What am I to do without you here?
The inevitability of loss has made itself clear
“Happy birthday, Katie,” just proof that it’s begun
Talking to myself believing you can hear me

Ah, the numbers don’t lie
Ah, the numbers don’t lie
Ah, how cruel and callous the time feels
as it passes by
The numbers don’t lie
nature is trash
&so are you
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Grumpy Mike featuring Steven Lamphear
Royal Road sequence: E Major - A B G#m C#m

Soldiers
Marching sounds in the
Distance
Nearing they wish to
Conquer
The land where we reside

Battles
Emerge in every
Corner
Surrounding us with
Danger
There’s no place left to hide

When the (A) day is (B) done
(G#m) One and one and (C#m) one make one
Together, we will overcome

(A) If we join our (B) powers
We can (G#m) stand up to these (C#m) evil forces
If we work together
We can take back the enchanted forest
If we unify
The numbers will not lie

Heroes
Leaping out from the
Shadows
Aided by an
Ally
A sword that talks and strikes

Victims
Tremble at his
Blade’s edge
A power long
Forgotten
Imbued with wit and jibes
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The Numbers Don't Lie
by Boffo Yux Dudes

(The challenge is met in the verses and choruses: The verse uses the necessary sequence in A minor, the chorus uses it in C, its relative major.
The bridge is Al being Al!)
(Also full disclosure - I took a telephone coincidental survey class in the 80's so I know how to do this shit. You only need 300 raw callers to have a statistically valid survey. However, they have to be random. The biases you can introduce to skew the data can easily introduce a pattern towards a specific result. It's not hard to nudge things in whatever direction you want them to go. It literally is all in the construction of the questionnaire, and who is answering the surveys. This popped in my head because of the Republican rules for who can be at the debates in August. The rules are literally unenforceable - candidates need 1% of the vote from a data set using 300 Republican voters to be included in the debates - which no one does in their surveys. They pick 3-500 random people - you'd need a 1500-3000 set of voters to get close to the thresholds. More fuckery going on in the survey world! )

Verse:
The best way that expectations are met
Exclude what you don’t want from the data set
Plan your questions so you don’t regret
Rephrase the questions; get your whistle wet!

Chorus:
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
1500 survey members break the tie.
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
Manipulate the data kiss the truth goodbye.

Verse 2:
Harness the power of what others say.
By tweaking words and increasing the sway
Decide the end before you ever start!
Turn off the brain so you can pull at the heart!

Chrous 2:
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
1500 survey members break the tie.
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
Integrity, you can kiss it goodbye!

Bridge:
If we say how likely are you to do something and then exclude those from the final datasets, we have a non-biased group of homogeneous voters from our specific demographic.
Is that how we get 90% of Republicans love Cheez Whiz and Bill Cosby? That's amazing!
It's just in how you ask the questions, folks!

Verse 3:
No one knows what data you choose.
It's supposed to be blind but who follows the rules?
If you’re called out for your obvious bias
Turn it around: make the media pariahs!

Chorus 3:
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
1500 survey members break the tie.
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
Keep repeating this battle cry.

The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
1500 survey members break the tie.
The numbers don’t lie.
The numbers don’t lie.
By these holy words we live and die.
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Nick Soma - The Numbers Don't Lie

DARK GREEN is the Head of Research, who has captured an exciting creature, the Test Subject, that warrants further study.

LIME GREEN is the Assistant, who is mistrusting of the newly arrived creature which he deems to be a freak of nature. He does show a certain interest for the Test Subject's brain, though.

BLUE is the Test Subject, a fascinating, yet dim-witted individual of the
Homo sapiens species from distant Earth. Unable to remember the abduction, he is first and foremost confused about his new surroundings.

The numbers don't lie
He's special, this guy
We'll handle him well
Lock him up in a cell


Why doesn't he speak?
This man is a freak!
He's not even green.

Now, don't be so mean!

And I don't know how I got here
I must have been somewhere, but not here
No, I don't know how I got here


We have to be nice
And measure him thrice
We need much more data
This doesn't suffice, oh no no no


Well, I would suggest
A different test.
Shall I get a probe
From his temporal lobe?


And I don't know how I came here
But everybody knows my name here
I seem to be a person of fame here


Honestly, I do think he's insane
I propose that we replace his brain


And I don't know how I got here
(Numbers do not lie, he's what we need)
I must have been somewhere, but not here
(Now this looks quite promising indeed)
No, I don't know how I got here
And there is no way home
And I don't know how I came here

(Numbers do not lie, he's our man)
But everybody knows my name here
(Take his brain and put it in a can)
I seem to be a person of fame here

The numbers don't lie
He's special, this guy
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The Numbers Don't Lie
by Moss Palace

The train is late again
You never showed up
Yet I still pretend
You’re going to change your ways
Relieve all my doubts
One of these days

I been waiting for a sign
Or a reason that could change my mind

Been looking for the truth
But I must be blind
I keep on counting on you
But the numbers don't lie
You've broken my trust
So many times
We just don't add up
No the numbers don't lie

One hundred second chances
Still you let me down
And I’m tired of your advances
I’m done with with empty vows
Don’t say you’re sorry
You never mean it anyhow

I been waiting for a sign
Or a reason that could change my mind

Looking for the truth
But I must be blind
I keep on counting on you
But the numbers don't lie
You've broken my trust
So many times
We just don't add up
No the numbers don't lie
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The Numbers Don’t Lie
By Cybronica

The marketing manager at my last job once told me we can make the data fit to whatever story we want to tell prospective clients. It was meant to be a lesson in finding interesting or previously over-looked insights in a massive excel spreadsheet of data points, but it always seemed inherently dishonest. Sure, everything we said was technically true, but it felt like a magician drawing attention away from the sleight of hand.

This song is a creative interpretation of that point, that you can make the numbers say whatever you like if you are creative enough. It certainly always feels like an outsized amount of power whenever I make a pivot table. Anyhoo, enjoy the puns!


Folks, I’ve got a tale to tell
So gather close and listen well
The story starts with excellent
Plans, such plans!
In our tower in the sky
The cells in which we live or die
Bade the data go awry
Man, oh man..

The numbers don’t lie
And neither do I
There’s so much we could say
The numbers don’t lie
They just say what I like
They never disobey

Month over month and year over year
Our team, they strove both far and near
Making sure the word appeared to
All the world
And when the people heard the news
They made the choice they had to choose
Precious few could bear refuse
What we’d unfurled

The numbers don’t lie
And neither do I
There’s so much we could say
The numbers don’t lie
They just say what I like
They never disobey

When every figure is dressed in black
A little red dress could cause a heart attack
Watch them dance at my command
Pivot and flip at the touch of my hand

The numbers don’t lie
And neither do I
The numbers don’t lie
They just say what I like

We will never blunder if we
ChoreoGRAPH the Numbers
They shall dance to the grand and wonderful
ROI
“It's like opera for toddlers or something.” -furrypedro
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Geech
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
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Re: Nur Ein XVIII Round 2 - The Numbers Don't Lie

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The Numbers Don't Lie
Berkeley Social Scene

Royal Road is the verse progression of F G Em Am

My silver pistol tongue is firing out phrases
Annie Oakley sharpshooting debate amazes
Word winding word twisting bit after bit
Confounding, flustering you till you quit

Keys hitting hard on old fashioned typewriter
Every one a combination from a champ prizefighter

The numbers don’t lie but I do
Line after line of things that aren’t true

Grappling with your words to jiujitsu you up
Lock you in a figure 4 till you’ve had enough
Come at me if you dare with your your sharpest dis
My biggest weakness is one you always miss

Keys hitting hard on old fashioned typewriter
Every one a combination from a champ prizefighter

The numbers don’t lie but I do
Line after line of things that aren’t true

Keys hitting hard on old fashioned typewriter
Every one a combination from a champ prizefighter

The numbers don’t lie but I do
Line after line of things that aren’t true
The numbers don’t lie but I do
Armies of fact checkers cannot help you through
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Adam!
Ice Cream Man
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Re: Nur Ein XVIII Round 2 - The Numbers Don't Lie

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The Numbers Don't Lie
by Max Bombast

I tell you math is real and anything you feel
Is just a set of numbers under everything
Both of me and you are here because we are true
Solutions to the wave equation governing
Thus, you and I exist!
Just like two and four make six
Every law you never thought of is a world that can persist
And so, hey nobody knows, in some perhaps we kissed!

If we get entangled then we'll intermix our entropy
Say—just for example—there's a world where we were meant to be
Somewhere out there that's far away from here

Now I know that
You solve the equation I've been writing all my life
I've done the calculations
Checked my math a hundred times
The numbers don't lie
The numbers don't lie

Everything that's true (including me and you)
Is permutated all across the universe
Every free degree affecting you and me
So many combinations that it's ludicrous
But it isn't infinite when you really look at it
Meaning it's repeating until every book is written and so
Now the question goes from "Why? to "When, and where?"

If every possibility is real but very far away
Then we were meant to be together, just not here and not today
Somewhere out there you are singing this song to me

And now I know that
You solve the equation I've been writing all my life
Now I've done the calculations
Checked my math a hundred times
The numbers don't lie
The numbers don't lie
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