S1E2: Jumping Ra Rark

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BUG'S SONG
Matt's challenge:
Write the national anthem of Bugtopia
Title: National Anthem
Lyrics:
If you don’t want to sing this song
Don’t feel compelled just to belong
Obligatory public vows shouldn’t make anybody proud
We don’t believe in faded ink
No shame updating how we think
Let’s circle back, no need to lock our constitution Google Doc

Don’t pledge allegiance to me, I
I’ve got no reason to be right
I’m not your King, I’ve not returned
I’ve got a million things to learn

We’re like a trilogy unwatched
2/3’s abandoned and simply dropped
We’ll never know the end,
I’ll bring the paper and the pen and try again

We’re okay living in the wings
Don’t need attention or what it brings
we’re all content just to let the kings
Fight back and forth over petty things

We’ll plant our flag and hope it grows
And if the cameras come we can strike a pose
If this life’s an anthem of perfect prose
We are the 2nd verse that nobody knows

Don’t pledge allegiance to me, I
I’ve got no reason to be right
I’m not your King, I’ve not returned
I’ve got a million things to learn

We’re like a trilogy unwatched
2/3’s abandoned and simply dropped
We’ll never know the end,
I’ll bring the paper and the pen and try again

And we’ll shimmy to the left, shimmy shimmy to the left
Everybody shimmy shimmy on over to the left
And then we’ll shimmy to left, keep going to the left
It’d be super duper helpful if you’d shimmy to the left
It’d be great if you’d shimmy to left please, thank you

Don’t pledge allegiance to me, I
I’ve got no reason to be right
I’m not your King, I’ve not returned
I’ve got a million things to learn

We’re like a trilogy unwatched
2/3’s abandoned and simply dropped
We’ll never know the end,
I’ll bring the paper and the pen and try again

MATT'S SONG
Bug's Challenge: Accident?
Title: Accident?
Lyrics:
i was walking to work day
crossing the street you gotta look both ways i know
but today i just stepped out with my eyes closed

three narrow misses and a screaming driver
i made it safely to the other side and i open my notebook and i write "experiment 9: success" and underline it

yeah i think i'm immortal
the signs are becoming unignorable

it all started a week ago
i woke up with a weird feeling so i did what any reasonable person ought to do

jumped out the window barely caught a sprain
walked on the tracks and tried to stop a train

yeah i think i'm immortal
the signs are becoming unignorable
how else would you explain it

i'm god
i think i always knew
i'm god
you're not that sucks for you
i thought that i was special i guess i was
now all you motherfuckers better pray because i'm god
i'm god

my first commandment is all love songs are now about me
my second commandment is thou shalt not order in food without leaving some aside for me as offering
my third commandment is the workday now starts at 4pm
and finishes at 4.45pm
two days a week
My fourth commandment is the summer will never rise above a pleasant temperature, and i'm scottish so, prepare for cold weather
My fifth commandment is commands are hard to come up with, imma take a break

my sixth commandment is free healthcare for all, sorry, i should have thought of that sooner
my seventh commandment is vampires are real and they're sexyyy
my eighth commandment is we should probably defang the vampires, but i acknowledge that a lot of their sex appeal comes from how dangerous they are so
i dunno
leave that with me
my ninth commandment is no war, no famine, no poverty, no bloodsports, no long layovers, no disappointing endings to novels, no greenhouse gases, no mandatory mailing list signups, no hidden fees, no gods, no masters, no actually scrap that. you didn't write that down did you?
my tenth commandment is the vampires leave you alone unless you consent to be bitten
yeah i think that solves that problem

yeah i think i'm immortal
the signs are becoming unignorable
how else would you explain it