Editing Grimdark Songwriting (section)

===Don McLean: American Pie===
A long, long time ago...<br>
I can still remember<br>
How that cultist used to make me smile.

And I knew if I had my chance<br>
That I could make those xenos dance<br>
And, maybe, they’d be purged for a while.<br>

But February made me shiver<br>
With every bolt round I’d deliver.
Heresy on the doorstep,<br>
I couldn’t take one more step.<br>

I can’t remember if I wrrryed<br>
When I read about his lolcron bride,<br>
But something touched me deep inside<br>
The day the music died.

So die die, from the flames in the sky,<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
And them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."


Did you write the litanies of hate,<br>
And do you live in the EMPRAH'S faith,<br>
If the Codex tells you so?<br>
Do you believe in rock ’n roll,<br>
Can crack cocaine save your heretic soul,<br>
And can you teach me how to wrrrry real slow?

Well, I know that you’re in love with him<br>
`cause I saw you dancin’ in the gym.<br>
You both kicked off your boots.<br>
Man, I dig those rhythmic blues.

I was a lonely teenaged scout marine<br>
With a camo cloak colored brown and green<br>
I knew to see but not be seen<br>
The day the music died.<br>
I started singin’,

"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
And them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."

Now since M.30 we’ve been on our own<br>
And heresy grows fat on a rollin’ stone,<br>
But that’s not how it used to be.<br>
When the harlequin sang with the noise marine,<br>
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean<br>
And a voice that came from you and me,

Oh, and while Lord Tzeentch was looking down,<br>
A loota boy stole his JUST AS PLANNED crown.<br>
The classroom was adjourned;<br>
No grade report was returned.<br>
And while Kharn raged about METAL BOX,<br>
Macha tried to get some in the park,<br>
And we rolled sixes in the dark<br>
The day the music died.<br>
We were singing,

"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
And them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."

Helter skelter in a summer swelter,<br>
The birds flew off the Exterminatus shelter<br>
Eight miles high and falling fast.<br>
Nurgle-tan let loose a cloud of gas.<br>
Macha still couldn't get no ass,<br>
With old Failbaddon in a cast.

Now Cultist-chan wore cheap perfume<br>
While Doomrider played a Slaaneshi tune.<br>
We all got up to dance,<br>
Oh, but we never got the chance!<br>
The Angry Marines tried to take the field;<br>
The Emperors Children refused to yield.<br>
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?<br>

We started singing,<br>
"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
Them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
And singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."

Oh, and there we were all in one place,<br>
All GRIMDARK and lost in space,<br>
With no time left to start again.<br>
So come on: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!<br>
Candlejack sat on a can-<br>
Cause fire is the devil’s only friend.

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage<br>
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.<br>
No angel born in hell<br>
Could break that daemon’s spell.<br>
And as I purged her in the night<br>
To show her the emperors shining light,<br>
I saw Eldrad laughing with delight<br>
The day the music died.

He was singing,<br>
"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
Them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
And singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."

I met a farseer whose love did bloom<br>
And I asked her for some happy news,<br>
But she just smiled and turned away.<br>
I went down to the wargear store<br>
Where I’d heard the music years before,<br>
But the techpriests said the music wouldn’t play.

Hand een thee stweets: thee childwen scweamed,<br>
Thee lovers cwied, and thee poeets dweamed.<br>
But not a hword hwas spoken;<br>
Thee chyurch bells all were broken.<br>
Hand thee thwee men Ay hadmire most:<br>
Thee father, son, hand thee holy ghost,<br>
They captyoored thee lhast train fooor thee coast<br>
Thee day thee myoosick died.

And they were singing,

"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
And them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."

"Die die, from the flames in the sky."<br>
Drove my raider to the crater,<br>
But the crater was dry.<br>
And them good old dreads were drainin' the promethium dry<br>
Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die.<br>
"This’ll be the day that I die."<br>