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Meow Flute with caps instead of all lower case!
This song is dripping with so much metaphor obscured meaning that I don't know where to begin... not to mention, my memory is horrible.

The fundamental theme of this song is environmentalism. There are a few lines that are painfully obvious, but most of it is me just using vague J-RPG imagery and a combat situation as a metaphor for destruction of the environment and a situation where citizens could actually take a real meaningful stand against corporations that have no regard for nature.

This song replaced Disco Party as my most popular when I released it. I think this song is actually the one that turned a ton of people on to this project, and even now, even amongst people who actually follow this project actively and know what I do now is worlds better than this, this really lo-fi version of this song hits home for them.
This song also marked an epiphany for me, because while it's by no means A POP SONG, the "but I have brought the fire" section of this song made me feel like I could actually truly write music, that my super weird synth-pop grindcore project had a future.

Another fun fact, this is the first song that someone else tried to claim as their own. Some douche bag started claiming that all I did was help him write the lyrics. Thankfully, a lot of people took my side, eventually including his girlfriend.
That event, however, traumatized me, and I haven't been able to open an email or message since without my heart starting to race. Worse things have happened since, too, so it's only been reinforced.
Thanks, dude!~

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the kitten plays a
happy jig on his flute
but the notes are violent
they cause HP loss to us
running from the death ray
makes this look like a piece of cake
I never heard such awful sounds
they pierce brains and tear out souls
magic songs that the damned composed
I had to run from the
green notes that obliterate
tear holes in the ozone
rutpture brains and corporates
he played another
round of angry melodies
the ground had just begun to shake
and my team was massacred
nothing saved them from the words
but
I have brought the
power of the antient gods
wind and darkness
focus in my hands
en
ergy forces out of me and
tears throguh
the lepecat
I have brought the pain now
sees how thing have turned out
I should get going
cat is defeated
life is so gleeing
see that puss in hell now
I am gone until I die
dont let this shit make you cry
yeah! yeah! yeah yeah yeah!!

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from 8​-​Legged Dance Moves (2005 demo), released December 20, 2005

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REJECT IRONY,
EMBRACE DISCOMFORT!

LOVING BLISS & CHAOS AT LIGHTSPEED!!~

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(2005 - FOREVER)

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