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SpinTunes 18 Round 2 Challenge;
Escape the Grid: Write a song that makes creative use of one or more tempo changes.
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One of my Twitch viewers really deserves the majority of the credit for the lyrics this time around. CynicalMonkey99 really came up with some stunning lines. I may have added some lines of my own and tweaked the ones they provided, but I feel it tells a fairly interesting story, and captures what I was attempting to convey.

While I had a lot of ideas going into this one, someone suggested I make a polka, and I thought why not a Gogol Bordello / Tom Waits / Jason Webley inspired haloweeney Klezmer-polka.
The idea stemmed from a passing joke by RadioMylar; asking me to add a line about a flamethrower. Cynical Monkey ran with the idea and gave me some beautiful material to build on.

I had to learn a bit about tempo envelopes in Reaper, but the end product was worth it.

Lot's I'd change, but I was down to the wire.

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Flames, we're throwing, The fire's growing,
Arson seeds I have been sowing,
This burning burden comes from knowing
the fire needs me to stoke her.

Molotov cocktails on the house,
Drenched in Petrol, clothing doused,
we sneak in quiet as a mouse
To dance the flame-proof polka”

As our embers turn to ash,
And blazes brought to smoulder.
The coals upon our playful pyre
are growing slowly colder.

The heat fades out, the smoke clears up,
the chaos starts to dwindle.
We raise our torches to the sky,
and the polka is rekindled

We'll burn as one eternally,
this piper's paid infernally,
burn effigies and follow me
into the fiery smoker.

At seven I will build the shrine,
by 8 we'll tie it up with twine
Ignition time is half past nine,
at ten the flame-proof polka

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from Unfinished Demos & Spintunes Entries, released April 8, 2018
Music by "BucketHat" Bobby Matheson
Lyrics written by CynicalMonkey99, "BucketHat" Bobby Matheson, and his twitch viewers;
Ice_imp
GoblinGoat
FyreofShadow
CerebroMtz
TattooedTriumph
RadioMylar

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"BucketHat" Bobby Matheson is a cubicle-dweller and former television professional who has been making silly songs and videos for over a decade

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