This is part of the complete Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Futile " originally appeared on p180 of Raymond Queneau's Exercices de Style in the 1998 Calderbook translation.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
How could a human begin
To tell his fatigue in simple verse?
And how could that same fellow list the drinks that he's had
Or how they just made him worse?
O, how might it be said
That a life should not be led
In the vain pursuit of trying to ask
How he might get to his bed?
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