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Part 5 of Group 3 (Narrative) ~ Filk Broken Telephone 2025
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2025-09-05
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Cam, Can We Please Go to the Beach?

Summary:

Cam, can we please go to the beach
Just a little dip in
Please can I go swimmin’
I promise if we go that I’ll eat
One whole entire egg
Or mush down to the dregs

Nona asks to go float with the jellies to the tune of "Light A Roman Candle With Me" by FUN.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Illustration by: Edward Miller

Cam, Can We Please Go to the Beach?
Written and sung by horchata

Length: 3:02
Download: MP3 at Archive.org

Lyrics

Cam, can we please go to the beach
Just a little dip in
Please can I go swimmin’
I promise if we go that I’ll eat
One whole entire egg
Or mush down to the dregs, oh

Just please take me to the beach
Plop me in the ocean
Give into your notion to write a bunch to Palamedes
Maybe he’ll see the beach dog with its spots and legs three, so

Cam, can we please go to the beach?
Just a bit of swimming
Just a little dip in

Pyrrha, can we go to the beach?
Just a bit of swimming
Don't say it's forbidden

I know you’re cross from the loss at your work
But you have the day off now!
That’s almost a perk!
At least if we go we could stay through the glow
Of the sun going down in the sky
Underneath the floodlights!

So often I whine and I plead with you:
"Give it a chance!"
In the sand there's a place to relax

Alright, what if I promise you that I won't disobey
And tomorrow you'll say:
"Oh, Nono, wear your mask, get your coat,
And we'll bike to the sand!
In the waves, Nona, you can go float."

Palamedes told me,
I know what is not allowed!
I'm fine with the jellies,
I promise you I wouldn't drown! No, no!

Oh I know, B of E does patrols
But if I don't go I think I will explode

So, Cam, can we please go to the beach?
Just a bit of swimmin'
Just a little dip in

Notes:

By the time our little narrative broken telephone got to me, I came away with two possible avenues: riff on the word "golden" and/or focus on the idea of being around people who buoy us ("We make our own family"). Well, I started and abandoned no fewer than six different "Golden" songs (Harry Styles! The Beatles! Jill Scott! Kylie Minogue! MIKA! Tina freaking Turner!!!) before needing to take a break to go hang with one of my favorite little families-by-circumstance and that was that.

FUN. is one of my most favorite bands in the history of modern music, and "Light A Roman Candle With Me" is such a sweet little bop. By the time I got to the part of the audiobook where Moira Quirk was starting to talk about the delicious little stings of the jellyfish against Nona's shins "Cam, can we please go to the beach?" was humming in my head. The way Pyrrha, Pal and Cam love Nona and care for her makes me so tender inside. They raise her up. Nona is full of love and feels so loved, and! Isn't that beautiful little golden treasure of security and care exactly what you need in order to whine and cajole your loved ones into taking you to jellyfish-infested polluted beach water for a swim? Yes, it is. Nona agrees, I just know it.

Hope you've enjoyed this little narrative string!! See you next year for another broken telephone. <3