The last song I’ll post from my (forever) nearly complete Hypertronic Neo Shrimp album. I think with feedback on this I should have enough info to try and get the other songs up to scratch. Plus I’ve started writing the next album in earnest.
I’ll upload (when my Wi-Fi is sorted - hopefully tomorrow) an amended version with the cymbal crash’s taken down as I’m aware it’s an issue. *edit - now updated* A warning- it’s a long song and I definitely don’t expect anyone to endure the whole thing. There’s 3 main sections of music - sometimes slipping into 5/4 - all of which are there to release the energy that has been building in the preceding 15 songs. Feel free to skip around to get a feel for it so you’re not tearing your hair out with ‘when will it end’ on your lips.
Lyrically the theme of the album is being dealt with by the sung parts whilst the rest/spoken is more concerned with the on going plot. I think the limitations of being one man playing about 10 parts becomes rather noticeable in this one.
https://m.soundcloud.com/lee_boyes-128832399/the-battle-of-ratterton-on-thames?in=lee_boyes-128832399%2Fsets%2Finvasion-of-the-hypertronicLyric:
There, at the great capital upon the Thames the two immense armies met. The antennae of the hovering neo shrimp quivered in terror at the approaching army of rats; who -with tails proudly aloft - brought hope to the chained humans who waited beneath their masters. The Shrimp, clicked and chirped nervous instructions as the rats approached with increasing speed. A wall of fortitude and might unending in valour. True in heart and cause - there would be no retreat or surrender. Finally the rats ceased their march and stood, bruxing in excited anticipation, creating a deafening roar that eventually fell to a charged silence.
Eventually the silence was punctured by the cry of a human who stood facing his master,
“Now it ends.”
He said.
“We will be free of you. in life or in death. Comrades, let us stand beside our noble saviours and fight for the liberty of all that would be free.”
And with that chains were broken, spirits soared and the battle began .
"Remember, what they did - never forget. Charge!"
This world is what we make it.
We’re lost in space and time.
Now is the only present problem.
We were the only cause of crime.
This earth on which we claim our honour
Screams for us to see our own true minds.
We’re born of basic blood forever
No grandeur in our veins
And the clouds which block our clearest insight
Will part and we will see the child within.
Free your mind of passive precepts
and you'll find your heart is filled with love.
"There, our rat comrades are in trouble!"
“You lot with me”
“We’re by your side”
“O Christ give me a second comrades - I’m bleeding knackered here”
“Let’s have it”
“Together we’re too strong for them”
“We haven’t long, they’re regrouping”
“Quickly help the survivors”
“Take my hand you brave soul”
“Thank you comrade - now let’s have at them”
“Together”
“Forever”
“Let’s do this”
Twist: Pugwash!
Pugwash: Twist… Twist - I saw them get you, are you ok?
Twist: I can’t feel my tail
Pugwash: Hold on
Twist: Well I can’t, I can’t feel my tail
Pugwash: Oh yeah I forgot
Twist: Pugwash, it’s going dark
Pugwash: Yeah I know, well, you’re guaranteed a grey sky in this country, Twist. Oh, sorry I see what you mean.
Twist: Pugwash, make sure my mealworms are distributed evenly.
Pugwash: “fair and square kiddo. Twist? Twist? They’ll pay Twist.
This ends now.”
“You lot go south, we’ll head them off this way”
“Good luck!”
“They’ll need more than luck to stop us”
“Eh up, what they doin’”
“They trying to flee the city to open ground”
“You stay where you are- we’ve got this”
“Yes - corner them like rats in a barre… oh, um, just corner them!”
The best of the Warrior Neo Shrimp had perished. Trapped by the debris of buildings they had felled in the invasion the remaining shrimp were left exposed and vulnerable .
“This is it - attack!”
“One last push comrades. One last fearful leap. Tomorrow our battle is within ourselves. To stay true to what we do here, today. And today we fight for our freedom. Today we hold true to the best of us. now is the moment. Do not falter - give no ground or there will be no tomorrow. Now, comrades - NOW!”
Your life is always worth the fighting
Darkness waits in hope
And so the choice that’s put before you
May be the last one that you ignore.
Don’t know what to think? don’t know what to do?
Take your life and know it matters
to all the ones you see in natures grace
Hold the love you know you felt once
it will be reborn in loss’s place
“They’re rising into the sky”
“What are they doing now?”
“It all looks a bit fishy to me”
“Heads down everyone”
“No! Look! They’re fleeing!”
“That’s it - run away you crusty sods!”
The thick smog that had covered the land rose and blew free into the clouds. A bright sun and newly cleared eyes made for a spectacular sight. The Hypertronic Neo Shrimp could find no way to stop the rats burrowing into their shells and eating them from the inside out. Shrimp hovering mid air would fall lifeless as rats fled their empty shells, squeaking something about mealworms. The Hypertronic Neo Shrimp that were not eaten fled to the black hole what they done come from. Behind them the black hole closed and so the rats had won and the Earth was safe.
