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Take a Swan Song and Make It Brighter
North Factory: without good there could be no evil
Norm Al: these are the ending days Texas Teachers Union: I sorted the chaos that heaven reviled Norm Al: this is the end of days Texas Teachers Union: into folders to render it gentle and mild Norm Al: the world burns down in a final blaze Texas Teachers Union: I doled out the color codes, taming the wild Norm Al: overheated by solar rays Texas Teachers Union: and I filed and I filed and I filed North Factory: so it must be evil to be good sometimes 21 September 2013
From the Daily Whale.
To understand it all, if that’s even possible, you have to know the originals whose lines I mutated.
North Factory - after “Up There” sung by Satan in the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Norm Al - after “Good Old Days” by Weird Al Yankovic, a song about a psychopath looking back happily on his youth. Texas Teachers Union - after “I Lied” by the Austin Lounge Lizards, a song about false marriage vows. |