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Terrible Fate

from Snickerdoodle by Jacob Kincaid

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I wrote this song about a video game. Then I decided I should play that video game. I also made a video for this song.

This song isn't about death or dying. It's about a video game that's about death or dying.

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The moon is coming down it's going to crash right into town
and our hero is the only one who really seems to notice
there's a dead boy on the clock tower whose magic mask is filled with power
and he's the only one who really seems to care
and the owner of the mask sends a cursed young man to get it back
I guess our Hero's Journey just never ever ends
and so our hero has three days to climb the clock and save the day
and the Happy Mask Salesman says:

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
Don't think me rude, but I've been following you.
Just one simple task; go fetch back my mask
and I'll lift the curse that he has put on you

When the friendly giants vanished
the imp got mad and then got banished
kicked right out of his homeland
now without a place
now without a face
he steals a mask from the salesman
and he goes back to his homeland
nothing but vengeance planned
it's gone beyond that typical trickster mischief
and so our hero has three days to climb the clock and save the day
and he thinks to himself what the mask salesman says


The imp remains defiant
so our hero fetches the giants
and they catch the moon just before it hits the ground
and he says "deadboy, that's not a toy, set it down."
The mask takes off it's imp
and the skull kid goes limp
and the hero of time draws his sword
and on top of the clock to the roaring of ticks and tocks he thinks of the saleman's words:

You've met with a terrible fate
...
Haven't you?

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from Snickerdoodle, released January 28, 2015

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jacobkincaid Morehead, Kentucky

I'm in China right now!
I recorded these songs over the last six months or so, and figured that going out of the country would be as good a time as any to put them up.

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