| Song | It Is Pitch Dark - Original |
| Artist | MC Frontalot |
| Album | Secrets From The Future |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| You are likely to be eaten by a grue. | |
| If this predicament seems particularly cruel, | |
| consider whose fault it could be: | |
| not a torch or a match in your inventory. | |
| It got narrated at you in the second person. | |
| Every time you booted up, it seemed you got another version | |
| of your life told to you by a status line blinking, | |
| the impossible people you could be without thinking | |
| yourself insane of personality problems, | |
| with a mop on a drop ship or trying to stab a goblin. | |
| That don't play in public life. You get arrested, | |
| psychoactive medication daily in your big intestine | |
| and attesting that the voices in your head | |
| said the dwarf shot first, embedded arrow then you bled. | |
| But doctors with needles posit repeatedly | |
| that you knocked down that midget in the park unneededly. | |
| This has seeded the idea that you should | |
| never venture from the house, never get misunderstood | |
| by the non-player characters inhabiting Earth, | |
| none of whom are too concerned about Nord & Bert, | |
| not one of whom ever aimed a fish around the room, | |
| trying to get it in the ear canal because doom | |
| beset the last planet they were on, or near | |
| the verge of a set of poetics they wouldn't hear. | |
| Never peered at the clues with invisible ink. | |
| No SM goddesses ever gave them pause to think. | |
| Never piloted six robots, each distinct. | |
| Don't matter how many 2-liters they drink, | |
| they're not gonna follow what you're saying at all. | |
| They impugn and appall in the scope of their gall, | |
| as you hide in your room in disgust with the lights turned out. | |
| Turn ‘em on in a turn. Leave ‘em off for now. | |
| You read a pamphlet from a mailbox that urges low cunning, | |
| offers cursor and prompt: type >run and you're running, | |
| and parses what you tell it, pronouns intact, | |
| abbreviations if you need ‘em (better keep it gramat.). | |
| Better punctuate your sentences and never redact | |
| the name of anything ambiguous. You're about to get asked, | |
| do you mean the red one, the round one, the crooked, or the blue? | |
| Better keep that in your pocket, don't know yet what it could do. | |
| Could be the spray for the grue; you're gonna need it if it is — | |
| a situation that reloads, restarts, or quits. | |
| Wonder how many points out of how many points | |
| you've got to get before you're done. Endeavor then to rejoice, | |
| when you wish more ardently, identities shed, | |
| for continuance, the rhyme forever voyaging. Fled | |
| from all lights and colors, from all smells and sound: | |
| just the lyric on the monochrome display and you're proud | |
| to make another verse appear by solving riddles. | |
| If you didn't have to sleep, you know you'd never seek acquittal. | |
| You'd be ever in the middle and the midst of quest. | |
| If it weren't for >don the gown. you'd never get dressed. | |
| In your underwear typing, just like Front, | |
| keyboard attached up to my fingers — wrists bear the brunt — | |
| as I seek to do stunts simply through their descriptions. | |
| I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian. | |
| And I retain plane tickets, snapshots, receipts, | |
| yet I stand unconvinced that this has happened to me. | |
| I wouldn't want to misremember or get confused. | |
| Recall of crawling towards a pyramid appearing over dunes. | |
| Recall of entering the thing and descending stairs. | |
| Does it descend from there, adventure to nightmare? | |
| Did I battle a snake? Was the treasure intact? | |
| Or did the TRS-80 in my brain get hacked? | |
| Thanks, Grampa, for buying it. Now my life's ruined. | |
| Twenty-two years later, head's infested: got the grue in. | |
| PLUGHing, XYZZYfying, trying to escape, | |
| but I can't ‘cause I'm up and around and awake. |
| You are likely to be eaten by a grue. | |
| If this predicament seems particularly cruel, | |
| consider whose fault it could be: | |
| not a torch or a match in your inventory. | |
| It got narrated at you in the second person. | |
| Every time you booted up, it seemed you got another version | |
| of your life told to you by a status line blinking, | |
| the impossible people you could be without thinking | |
| yourself insane of personality problems, | |
| with a mop on a drop ship or trying to stab a goblin. | |
| That don' t play in public life. You get arrested, | |
| psychoactive medication daily in your big intestine | |
| and attesting that the voices in your head | |
| said the dwarf shot first, embedded arrow then you bled. | |
| But doctors with needles posit repeatedly | |
| that you knocked down that midget in the park unneededly. | |
| This has seeded the idea that you should | |
| never venture from the house, never get misunderstood | |
| by the nonplayer characters inhabiting Earth, | |
| none of whom are too concerned about Nord Bert, | |
| not one of whom ever aimed a fish around the room, | |
| trying to get it in the ear canal because doom | |
| beset the last planet they were on, or near | |
| the verge of a set of poetics they wouldn' t hear. | |
| Never peered at the clues with invisible ink. | |
| No SM goddesses ever gave them pause to think. | |
| Never piloted six robots, each distinct. | |
| Don' t matter how many 2liters they drink, | |
| they' re not gonna follow what you' re saying at all. | |
| They impugn and appall in the scope of their gall, | |
| as you hide in your room in disgust with the lights turned out. | |
| Turn ' em on in a turn. Leave ' em off for now. | |
| You read a pamphlet from a mailbox that urges low cunning, | |
| offers cursor and prompt: type run and you' re running, | |
| and parses what you tell it, pronouns intact, | |
| abbreviations if you need ' em better keep it gramat.. | |
| Better punctuate your sentences and never redact | |
| the name of anything ambiguous. You' re about to get asked, | |
| do you mean the red one, the round one, the crooked, or the blue? | |
| Better keep that in your pocket, don' t know yet what it could do. | |
| Could be the spray for the grue you' re gonna need it if it is | |
| a situation that reloads, restarts, or quits. | |
| Wonder how many points out of how many points | |
| you' ve got to get before you' re done. Endeavor then to rejoice, | |
| when you wish more ardently, identities shed, | |
| for continuance, the rhyme forever voyaging. Fled | |
| from all lights and colors, from all smells and sound: | |
| just the lyric on the monochrome display and you' re proud | |
| to make another verse appear by solving riddles. | |
| If you didn' t have to sleep, you know you' d never seek acquittal. | |
| You' d be ever in the middle and the midst of quest. | |
| If it weren' t for don the gown. you' d never get dressed. | |
| In your underwear typing, just like Front, | |
| keyboard attached up to my fingers wrists bear the brunt | |
| as I seek to do stunts simply through their descriptions. | |
| I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian. | |
| And I retain plane tickets, snapshots, receipts, | |
| yet I stand unconvinced that this has happened to me. | |
| I wouldn' t want to misremember or get confused. | |
| Recall of crawling towards a pyramid appearing over dunes. | |
| Recall of entering the thing and descending stairs. | |
| Does it descend from there, adventure to nightmare? | |
| Did I battle a snake? Was the treasure intact? | |
| Or did the TRS80 in my brain get hacked? | |
| Thanks, Grampa, for buying it. Now my life' s ruined. | |
| Twentytwo years later, head' s infested: got the grue in. | |
| PLUGHing, XYZZYfying, trying to escape, | |
| but I can' t ' cause I' m up and around and awake. |
| You are likely to be eaten by a grue. | |
| If this predicament seems particularly cruel, | |
| consider whose fault it could be: | |
| not a torch or a match in your inventory. | |
| It got narrated at you in the second person. | |
| Every time you booted up, it seemed you got another version | |
| of your life told to you by a status line blinking, | |
| the impossible people you could be without thinking | |
| yourself insane of personality problems, | |
| with a mop on a drop ship or trying to stab a goblin. | |
| That don' t play in public life. You get arrested, | |
| psychoactive medication daily in your big intestine | |
| and attesting that the voices in your head | |
| said the dwarf shot first, embedded arrow then you bled. | |
| But doctors with needles posit repeatedly | |
| that you knocked down that midget in the park unneededly. | |
| This has seeded the idea that you should | |
| never venture from the house, never get misunderstood | |
| by the nonplayer characters inhabiting Earth, | |
| none of whom are too concerned about Nord Bert, | |
| not one of whom ever aimed a fish around the room, | |
| trying to get it in the ear canal because doom | |
| beset the last planet they were on, or near | |
| the verge of a set of poetics they wouldn' t hear. | |
| Never peered at the clues with invisible ink. | |
| No SM goddesses ever gave them pause to think. | |
| Never piloted six robots, each distinct. | |
| Don' t matter how many 2liters they drink, | |
| they' re not gonna follow what you' re saying at all. | |
| They impugn and appall in the scope of their gall, | |
| as you hide in your room in disgust with the lights turned out. | |
| Turn ' em on in a turn. Leave ' em off for now. | |
| You read a pamphlet from a mailbox that urges low cunning, | |
| offers cursor and prompt: type run and you' re running, | |
| and parses what you tell it, pronouns intact, | |
| abbreviations if you need ' em better keep it gramat.. | |
| Better punctuate your sentences and never redact | |
| the name of anything ambiguous. You' re about to get asked, | |
| do you mean the red one, the round one, the crooked, or the blue? | |
| Better keep that in your pocket, don' t know yet what it could do. | |
| Could be the spray for the grue you' re gonna need it if it is | |
| a situation that reloads, restarts, or quits. | |
| Wonder how many points out of how many points | |
| you' ve got to get before you' re done. Endeavor then to rejoice, | |
| when you wish more ardently, identities shed, | |
| for continuance, the rhyme forever voyaging. Fled | |
| from all lights and colors, from all smells and sound: | |
| just the lyric on the monochrome display and you' re proud | |
| to make another verse appear by solving riddles. | |
| If you didn' t have to sleep, you know you' d never seek acquittal. | |
| You' d be ever in the middle and the midst of quest. | |
| If it weren' t for don the gown. you' d never get dressed. | |
| In your underwear typing, just like Front, | |
| keyboard attached up to my fingers wrists bear the brunt | |
| as I seek to do stunts simply through their descriptions. | |
| I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian. | |
| And I retain plane tickets, snapshots, receipts, | |
| yet I stand unconvinced that this has happened to me. | |
| I wouldn' t want to misremember or get confused. | |
| Recall of crawling towards a pyramid appearing over dunes. | |
| Recall of entering the thing and descending stairs. | |
| Does it descend from there, adventure to nightmare? | |
| Did I battle a snake? Was the treasure intact? | |
| Or did the TRS80 in my brain get hacked? | |
| Thanks, Grampa, for buying it. Now my life' s ruined. | |
| Twentytwo years later, head' s infested: got the grue in. | |
| PLUGHing, XYZZYfying, trying to escape, | |
| but I can' t ' cause I' m up and around and awake. |