⚓ Behind the Scenes: “What Are Bollards?”This song actually started with a very simple question:“What are bollards?”

⚓ Behind the Scenes: “What Are Bollards?”

This song actually started with a very simple question:

“What are bollards?”

So, naturally...

Ask ChatGPT. 😂

That little question turned into the idea for “The Sea Fender Knows.”

The song was requested by someone who shall remain unnamed, and the original concept was basically built around taking normal warehouse terminology and imagining what happens when somebody sincerely calls things by completely different names.

And then we got to bollards.

For anyone else who doesn't know: bollards are those sturdy posts used around docks, roads, buildings, and other areas to guide, protect, or secure things. At a loading dock, they're the heavy-duty posts you definitely don't want your forklift—or anything else—smashing into.

But in Erwin's vocabulary?

They're sea fenders.

And that's where the song really found its identity.

> “Mind the sea fenders!”

“Bollards.”

The manager keeps trying to correct him.

Erwin keeps using sea fenders.

Then the new guy learns the same terminology.

And eventually, the whole crew is speaking Erwin's language.

What started with:

“What are bollards?”

somehow became a pirate warehouse shanty.

Honestly, that's exactly the kind of ridiculous chain of events that makes a requested song worth writing. ⚓🎵