Meeting That Could've Been an Email
Meeting That Could've Been an Email lyrics
A song about the nightmare of having a 40-minute meeting for a simple 2-line yes
Lyrics
I sat there in the glass box
With a cold burnt coffee cup
You said, “Let’s circle back”
While the clock kept chewing up
Same slide, new sentence
Same face, same stare
We needed one small answer
But the room kept building air
Forty minutes gone
For a two-line fix
Your calendar is loud
But the work is thin
Just send the email
Just send the email
I could’ve done this
In a minute, maybe two
Just send the email
Just send the email
Save the whole room
For something we can do
The marker squeaked on whiteboards
Like a car on broken glass
You asked who owned the follow-up
Then passed the blame right past
Five more people nodded
At the same dead point
I watched my inbox blinking
Like it wanted out that joint
Forty minutes gone
For a two-line fix
Your calendar is loud
But the work is thin
Just send the email
Just send the email
I could’ve done this
In a minute, maybe two
Just send the email
Just send the email
Save the whole room
For something we can do
If it’s a yes, say yes
If it’s a no, say no
If it fits in one message
Let it go, let it go
One line
Two lines
Done
Just send the email
Just send the email
I could’ve done this
In a minute, maybe two
Just send the email
Just send the email
Save the whole room
For something we can do
Just send the email
(Just send the email)
Just send the email
(Just send the email)
Behind the Lyrics
This one is a specific Tuesday. A client of 4 Pillars Digital hadn't decided what they wanted yet; they just wanted to talk at it until it turned into something. Forty-five minutes booked. Maybe four of them were about anything real. The rest was everyone taking turns rephrasing the same half-formed thought so it would sound like progress. I picked Afro house because it's the opposite of what happened in that room. The genre is communal rhythm at its purest: a whole floor locked into one pulse, moving together, producing something you can feel in your chest. That meeting had a full room too. Nobody was locked into anything. We were present, and presence got mistaken for output. Now the part I owe you. I book these meetings too. "Let's circle back" has left my mouth more times than I'd like to admit on a public website. Half the lines in this song I've said myself, in other rooms, wearing the other hat. So it isn't an anti-meeting song. It's an anti-empty-room song. If the idea isn't there yet, don't book the room. Go think, then send the two lines. Save the dance floor for something that actually moves.
LSLachezar, writing songs so you don't have to cry alone
Production credits
- Text
- Lachezar Simeonov
- Audio
- Lachezar Simeonov, AI-assisted production
- Voices
- AI personas built for Clicks & Swagger, some inspired by Lachezar's real voice
- Art
- Lachezar Simeonov, AI-assisted production
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