The Madness and Shock



music by Sirocco
text by Kenning

Sung by M.c.P:


Just music:


Guitar and cello version:


Karaoke:





Oh Boing, Mistress Boing
Something stirs in the fortress,
A singular, sinister, slithering thing.
Oh see, can you see
In the stillness and darkness
The madness and shock of its sickening sting?

The goblins are grinning, the caverns are cold,
The babies are bawling who'll never grow old.
The fortress is falling, the dwarfblades are dull,
The darkness is dimming inside of your skull.

Oh Boing, Mistress Boing
Something stirs in the fortress,
A singular, sinister, slithering thing.
Oh see, can you see
In the stillness and darkness
The madness and shock of its sickening sting?

The elfscum are eyeing, the migrants are mad
The hellbeasts are howling and adamant-clad.
The keeps are all crumbling, the heroes are dead
The sickness is swirling inside of your head.

Oh Boing, Mistress Boing
Something stirs in the fortress,
A singular, sinister, slithering thing.
Oh see, can you see
In the stillness and darkness
The madness and shock of its sickening sting?

So pull on your levers and slaughter your kin
And torment the Praetor who's hidden within
And sacrifice dozens and doom and denounce
To clear out the mess in your mental accounts.

Oh Boing, Mistress Boing
Something stirs in the fortress,
A singular, sinister, slithering thing.
Oh see, can you see
In the stillness and darkness
The madness and shock of its sickening sting?



Sirocco wrote :-

The Madness And Shock

Key: Ab
Metre: 4/4
Overseer: Boing

Another song inspired by Kenning's wonderful lyrics (I'm pretty envious). My first thoughts on reading them was to make a piece that would belong in a musical like Phantom of the Opera but just before I was ready to start, TremendousMajestic suggested a Tom Waits style rendition and I thought that was an even better idea - then M.c.p recorded it and I wondered whether I'd written a musical piece anyway! I think it works rather well both ways.




Kenning wrote :-


For this piece I wanted to play off of Boing's paranoia by filling her song with firesnakes. There are really two voices here, the insanity in the chorus, with its loose, clattering anapests and snakey sibilants, which is her paranoid delusion, and the verses, which are intensely structured and reflect the actual problems in the world around her.

This was structurally the most complex piece I produced for the thread, which is appropriate, since Boing had such a complicated and controversial overseership. All the alliteration and tight rhyme/meter was a real bitch, but fun to put together. I deliberately had the alliteration break down in the final verse to represent her final descent into total madness. I think I was proudest of this one out of all of them, because I was able to work with a complicated structure without making it sound forced (I hope!).

Of all the songs from this thread, I find myself humming this one the most. Well done Sirocco and M.c.P!