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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --
Prompt: "One (K)night's difference"
----Bug's Song-----
Title: Fix Itself
Additional Challenge: A compliment
Lyrics:
I said "I dunno, doc" as I sat up on the table
my shirt off, thankful just my socks around my ankles
I've had no luck with proper diagnosis
my internet doctor just sent some shrug emojis
and so she jots down a note, this'll do the trick
get back to your old self quick
But I'm stubborn and a skeptic
but this doctor won't accept it
She says "Take This and Call me in the morning"
so I shake it and I say I can't afford it
but she insists and writes me a prescription
so I throw it in the cabinet with the other dozen pills
that I've ignored and sorta hope that it'll magically fix itself
now its been 6 months so I come in for a check-up
She asks about my regimen and so I have to fess up
The bottle is still intact
and my motivation's weaker than a childproof cap
This calls for a higher dose, you're so easy to diagnose
You're just stubborn and a skeptic
and this doctor won't accept it
Take This and Call me in the morning
I make a play to ask about the side-effects and warnings
she evades this and writes me a prescription
and walks me to the pharmacy and watches as I pay and leave
and wonders if I still believe that this'll all fix itself
So I'm standing in the bathroom, bottle on the windowsill
hyping up myself 'cause I've never liked taking pills
I pop the top and to my surprise
there's nothing but a note inside
It says: Take this, and call me in the morning
I love you and you're handsome and important
and I want you to feel like you're accepted
so I wrote you my love as a prescription
So I take it, and call you in the morning
my heart aching from the way that you support me
and sometimes I get down, and afraid to ask for help
But I know it won't fix itself
---- Matt's Song -----
Title: The Other Boys
Additional Challenge: Must use the word "POPCORN"
Lyrics:
Popcorn
Now I have your attention
I got a two minute pitch and I'd like you to listen
So you've been putting up with suitors for a week now and
These losers can't do any of the cool shit I can
I don't have money, I don't have fame
Or blue blood flowing in my veins
But excuse me
Princess I'm not like the other boys
Dragon
Yeah that was me in the yard
Drove a 12 foot polearm through it's burning heart
You probably couldn't tell with my helmet askew
But as the beast fell baby I was winking at you
And the wizard in the hills who was raising the dead
I cut him a deal before I cut off his head
A hundred strong choir of your bloodline past
Singing love songs at your window
I don't have land, or military might
I don't have anyone to hold in the night
Excuse me
Princess I'm not like the other boys
They might have it all but you've still got a choice
Power and blood, connections and coin
Or me and whatever I've got going on
I don't want to scare you by coming on strong
But I'd love you better than any of them
No plot of the devil or creation of men
Could touch you when I am there at your side
And I don't have money, I don't have fame
Or blue blood flowing through my veins
But excuse me
Princess I'm not like the other boys