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Two Things At Once

words and music by Paige Powell      ©2007 Paige E. Powell

1. I can pick up the mail after taking out the trash

I can whistle a song, cookin’corned beef hash

Talk about the weather while I eat a little lunch

But I can’t do more than two things at once

 

2. I can answer the door when I’m talkin’on the phone

Listen to the news while I’m drivin’home

Change my schedule when I’m in a time crunch

But I can’t do more than two things at once

 

Bridge 1:  If I juggle many tasks, I’ll start dropping a few

‘Cause the number of things I can do

At the same time is only two!

 

3. I can talk about the future of you and me

 While I hold your hand and share the dreams I see

 I’ll write you a song and say I love you a bunch

 But I can’t do more than two things at once

 

Bridge 2:  You want me to do so much and I love pleasing you

But the number of things I can do

At the same time is only two!

 

4. I can play this guitar while I sing to you

 About the days I was searchin’for a love this true

 And I finally found you while everybody else hunts

 But I can’t do more than two things at once

 No, not more than two things at once

 No, I can’t do more than two things at once, darlin’!

On this recording, Saxophone is performed by Steve Wolfe.

Vocal harmonies on the bridge performed by Richard Czypinski.

 

In my humble opinion, you can listen the radio while driving, right? You can cook something while listening to music. But as the song says, "I can play this guitar while I sing to you..." and I must admit that once, while singing and playing a song I had memorized, I thought about what kind of pizza I wanted to order. Hmmm... that's three things, right? I guess you could argue that my brain was on "autopilot" when performing the song, freeing it to think about pizza, so that's one thought at a time.

The real treat in the recording of this song is the saxophone performance of Steve Wolfe, who unfortunately for our local music community, moved away to Jacksonville, Florida. Richard Czypinski, who has loaned his vocals on some of my songs to pitch to male artists, was available and happy to add background vocals on the bridges of "Two Things At Once". Just click on this title to go to the song's page on my website and you can hear the song while reading the lyrics (wait! that's two things at once!). Please add it to your Spotify playlists or favorites: click HERE.

From Blog, June 25, 2021: The Story Behind the Song, "Two Things At Once":

Ahh, the simple life! Well, no, not for my busy schedule! Life can be so exciting with the fun things that I'd rather do plus the things I'm supposed to do! So, to maximize the use of my time, I do try to do "Two Things At Once" and I wrote a song about it.

After writing it, I brought it to a songwriter group for their feedback, and don't you know, they ARGUED with me that women, especially, can multi-task doing 3 or 4 things at once. Later, I read about a study where a bunch of scientists found that we really only do one thing at a time. We may shift back and forth between two activities, but our brains only focus on one thing at a time. Oh well! At least I got a good song from the idea and you guys can argue about it amongst yourselves.

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