Scroll On By

A song parody of Walk On By by Dionne Warwick

BBH Singapore

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Dedicated to all the creative writing Substack writers.

Play the video at the end of this story and sing along.

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If you see my story in your feed
(You) won’t give it a try, take time to read

Scroll on by
Scroll on by

Make me heave
And multiply my fears
That I’m naive
To wonder if I could have pleased you
I really do try

Don’t scroll on by (please stop)
Don’t scroll on by (please stop)
Don’t scroll on by

I just can’t write half as well as you
No matter how hard
I attempt to

Scroll on by
Scroll on by

Humor bits
That’s all that I have left
in my Scrivener file
My poems and my fiction are all gone
But no one here will cry

Don’t scroll on by (please stop)
Don’t scroll on by (please stop)
Don’t scroll on by (please stop)
Don’t scroll on

Musical Interlude

Scroll on by
Scroll on by

Foolish pride
It has me all depressed
Undignified
With pages and pages of essays
I have set aside

You scroll on by (please stop)
You scroll on by (please stop)

Now you’ll really never know so scroll on by (please stop stop)
If you read you’ll never see the tears I cry (please please stop)
Now you’ll really never know so scroll on by (please stop stop)
Mmm-hmm-hmm
If you read you’ll never see the tears I cry (please please stop)

(Fade)

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Thanks for reading and responding. You make it fun.

Mark