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| From Devo Spice: If you're not aware Stranger Things is an original series on Netflix which took the service by storm when it was released a few months ago. The show takes place in 1983 in the small, fictional town of Hawkins, IN. When a young boy goes missing his mother goes crazy trying to find him, his friends discover a strange girl with telekinesis, and the chief of police discovers the secret lab in town has been doing some very shady stuff and screwed up big this time around. The series is amazing. Seriously, watch it. It's only 8 episodes long. You won't regret it.
Since the show takes place in 1983 and I wanted to write a song about it I decided to write a song that takes place in 1983. As such this old school rap song is clap-heavy, synth-driven, and damn-near eight minutes long. The song is from Mike's perspective. He's one of the friends of the kid who went missing.
If you haven't seen the show I don't know how much sense this song will make. I also spoil just about everything, so you should probably watch the series first.
Special thanks to The Terrific Two (or whatever they would be called in 1983) Luke Ski and Chris Mezzolesta for helping me out with this track. (Captain Wayne) |
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Now let me tell you a story that’s kind of weird
About my best friend Will who disappeared
So just sit back now and you will see
Just how things went down back in ‘83
...uh huh huh
Well we were at my house playing D&D
It was Will, Lucas, Dustin, and me
The campaign I ran left ‘em shaken and scared
When out of nowhere a monster appeared
Who said “I’m sorry, Mike, all your friends have to leave”
Come on, Mom, just twenty minutes, please?
But no, she said we had to end the game
And that was the end of our great campaign
Everybody left all alone, if you’re stunned
It was 1983, that’s just how it was done
We’ve never had a problem before, it’s true
But on Will’s journey he rolled a two
He never made it home, though I should mention
He was at the right house, just the wrong dimension
Because a tall monster—I didn’t know we had those
Brought Will back to the Veil of Shadows
[chorus]
Will’s gone missing, that’s why I’m rappin’
A monster is loose, we need to trap him
I’m sure that stranger things have happened
But I don’t know when, I really don’t know when
We all went out to search for Will
Past the road by his house in the woods on the hill
One minute we’re kids playing with our toys
Now we’re solving mysteries like The Hardy Boys
What we found out there, you wouldn’t believe
While my sister was quote-unquote studying with Steve
We happened to chance upon a maiden faire
Her name was Eleven and she had no hair
She didn’t talk much but it’s no mystique
With a mouth full of Eggos it’s hard to speak
And I think that maybe with her special skill
She can help us find Will, or get us all killed
Meanwhile Will’s Mom Joyce is freaked
All she does is scream, howl, and shriek
I don’t mean to judge but I’m not the one
Who got an obscene phone call from her son
She’s got a new phone and she got another call
And she’s got a new hole in her living room wall
And she’s got an ex-husband who wants to sue
And a crazy idea about what she should do
The roof! The roof!
The roof is on fire!
Look at that thing, it’s burning bright
Oh wait, never mind, it’s just Christmas lights
(chorus)
Our new friend Eleven, El for short
Is the one who opened the demon’s port
In a lab that doesn’t exist, no way
And totally isn’t run by the CIA
Her crazy Papa, Dr. Brenner
Kept her locked up in that research center
And trained her mind to act like a radio
I wonder if she can tune in Dr. Demento
We thought that El was a total fake
When they pulled Will’s body out of the lake
I fought with Lucas over what she did
But it turned out to be a fancy Cabbage Patch Kid
The HAM radio that our science teacher owned
Amplified her powers like a megaphone
And proved that Will really didn’t drown
And is trapped with a monster in the Upside Down
The monster seems to be attracted to blood
And he comes around hoping he can grab some grub
If he sees you he’ll take you back to his place
Put the moves on you, and try to suck face
Nothing is effective at stopping this
So don’t let him give you a big sloppy kiss
If the lights start to flicker it’s not the wires
Better run or your face will end up on those fliers
On top of all this some kids at school
Often bully us and are mean and cruel
When they mocked will’s death I blew a fuse
And El made him wet his Underoos
It only got worse after that little tiff
They held Dustin with a knife and made me jump off a cliff
Thankfully El was pretty near, oh
Made me fly like The Greatest American Hero
While those mouthbreathers get me upset
The Hawkins Lab staff are a much bigger threat
Lucas warned us that they were coming for El
So we hopped on our bikes and pedaled like hell
They came at us from every direction
And cut us off at every intersection
There was no escape that I could see
If only someone could make us fly like E.T.
We met up with everybody back at the school
Where we built a think tank from an old kiddie pool
We were hoping that El could contact Will
Without blowing up our long distance bill
Hopper and Joyce did some lab confronting
My sister and Jonathan went monster hunting
That left me alone with El by my side
And Dustin alone with the pudding supply
We couldn’t rest long ‘cause all too soon
The school was attacked by Brenner and his goons
Things were nuts, it was really scary
But El was great, she went completely Carrie
We kind of won, but I lost my friend
And I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again
But I’m holding out hope that she’ll come back around
A new shipment of Eggos is coming to town
(chorus) (Captain Wayne) |
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| Played on 15 shows: |
 | 10-22-22, #AOTA-221022 | | 10-14-17, #AOTA-171014 |
| 09-17-22, #KMCC-17-02 | | 07-28-17, #WOTR_44 |
| 10-30-21, #AOTA-211030 | | 12-31-16, #AOTA-161231 |
| 10-31-20, #AOTA-201031 | | 11-26-16, #AOTA-161126 |
| 01-04-20, #KMCC-14-10 | | 11-23-16, #ISGD-16-48 |
| 10-12-19, #AOTA-191012 | | 11-05-16, #AOTA-161105 |
| 10-20-18, #AOTA-181020 | | 10-22-16, #AOTA-161022 |
| 10-27-17, #WOTR_56 | | |
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fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, I know. The solution's simple but rather involved. Make a 'Devo Spice' artist page, then slowly & deliberately separate all the Devo Spice songs and albums from the Sudden Death page and place them in the new one. After determining which ones were which, of course. It's quite a project. One that I plan to sort out once this whole "Make 7+ two hour Halloween & Xmas shows before mid-December" thing is done.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Once more, the artist credit is Devo Spice. It's no longer Sudden Death.
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