Riding for the Feeling - original song by Bill Callahan

riding-for-the-feeling.js

// It's never easy to say goodbye
var goodbye = function(){

    // to the faces
    let to = function(faces=[]){
     
      if( faces && Array.isArray(faces) && faces.length > 1 ) {

        // So rarely do we see another one,
        return faces.find(function(face){

          // so close and
          return (!!face["so close"] && face.soLong)
          // so long                      
        });
      }
    };

    // I
    let i = { 
      // aked the room
      asked: function(room={}){
        
        // if I said enough
        return response = room["I'd said enough?"] ? true : null;
        
        // no one really answered

        (function theyJustSaid(){
          console.log("Don't go");
          console.log("don't go");
          console.log("don't go");
          console.log("don't go");
          console.log("don't, go");
        })();
      }
    };


  // Well all this leaving is neverending
  this.leaving = function(ending=Infinity, queries=[]){
  
    // I kept hoping for one more question
    for (let home=0;home<queries.length;home++){
  
      // or for someone to say
      if(queries[home] === "Who do you think you are?"){
        
        // so I could tell them, with intensity
        this.leaving(ending, queries.splice(home, 1));

       // the drop evaporates by law
      }

     // In conclusion, leaving is easy
    }

   // when you've got some place you need to be 
   this.leaving(ending+1);   
  } 


  // I'm giving up this gig for another season
  setTimeout(theEnd, (new Date() - new Date(2017,9,03)));


  // With the TV on mute
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    this.mute = true;

  }
  
  // TODO: I realized I had said very little about ways 
  // 			 or wheels

  var ways, wheels;
  var on = this;

  // Or Riding for the feeling 
  const ridingForTheFeeling = function(){

    // Riding for the feeling
    return this();

  }
  // is the fastest way to reach the shore
  .bind(function(){
    // on water, or land
    this.shore = this.shore === on.water ? on.water : on.land;
    return this.shore;
  });
  


  // Riding for the feeling
      ridingForTheFeeling();
          // Riding for the feeling

  ridingForTheFeeling();
    ridingForTheFeeling();
      ridingForTheFeeling();


  return;

  function theEnd(){
    /*
      What if I had stood there at the end
      And said again and again and again and again 
      and again
      
      In answer to every question?
    */

    switch (typeof this.question) {
      case "boolean":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      case "number":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      case "string":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      case "symbol":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      case "object":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      case "undefined":
        return 'Riding for the feeling';
        break;
      default: 
        return 'Riding for the feeling, and Riding for the '
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                .join('');

    }

    console.log("Riding for the feeling");
    console.log("Riding for the feeling");
    console.log("Riding for the feeling");

    // Would that have been a suitable goodbye?
  }
}();

/***************************************

  derived from 
  ------------
  "Riding for the feeling" 
   written by Bill Callahan 
   on the album "Apocalypse" (2011)


   written with 
   ------------
   the JavaScript programming language
   created by Brendan Eich (1995)

****************************************/