Song Blog

     
     Hello again! Please enjoy. I need no further explanation (sorry).
  - Andrei Montellano


      The task requirements:
        The task requirements we were given were to make a song, a good one, add music (if optional), and to make a blog post about it, which is what you're reading right now.

      The lyrics:
    (Verse 1)

  An unknown Foundation

  Saving you from trouble

  Those things are inhuman

  And they’re our only hope

  Many foes they face

  Although they still stand

  The tests they do and run

  Is a cost at hand

(D-9341)

  I wake up

  I can’t remember anything

  A cell and a piece of paper comes to sight

  I don’t know what happened

  This place is a mystery to unravel

 Two guards appear at the door

 “Knock, knock! Come on, you bore!”

 This place is eerily formidable

 The moment I woke up,

 I wondered…

 What lies ahead?

(Chorus)

  Knock, knock! Open up the door!

  Something’s going on inside!

  Someone or something’s hiding in this place…

  We have to find it fast!

  That thing will kill us all!

  We say that you open up,

  Because the Foundation is here!

(Ulgrin)

  Just another day at the office

  Another fool to escort

  Prisoners of war, condemned to death

  Test subjects in our language

  I know, this job sucks, actually

  It pays, but still though, hey

  Sending lives to death

  For scientific gains

  It’s just as scary as the Grim Reaper

  And like a fantasy

  Am I just dreaming?

  Have I long died?

  I won’t know.

(D-9341)

  This place is just as terrifying

  As anything I’ve ever seen

  The anomalies takes the cake

  When it comes to terror

  Literally obscure

  This stuff is worse than Dead Space

  It’s just as terrifying

  When I die, I come back

  So, is any of this real?

  Or just a game?

(Bridge)

  A facility-wide breach,

  Took so many lives,

  Nobody is spared, either turned

  Or killed

(D-9341)

  It buys me time

  To get out of this place

  Will I be free…

  Or taken again?

(Chorus)

  Knock, knock! Open up the door!

  Something’s going on inside!

  Someone or something’s hiding in this place…

  We have to find it fast!

  That thing will kill us all!

  We say that you open up,

  Because the Foundation is here! 

  (x2)

  The SCP Foundation

  Thanks you

  For your cooperation... 

Song Inspiration:

I was inspired by a video game, so I made this song. I based it off the horror game SCP - Containment Breach created on 2012. The game is based of a fictional company called the SCP Foundation. They specialise in protecting humanity from the unknown and dangerous, also called SCPs. The characters, D-9341, the player, and Agent Ulgrin, the agent who escorts you in the beginning, I added because I thought some character involvement would be good for the song. Some of their lines even included Fourth Wall Breaks.

Metaphors and Similes:

I only used a small amount of both in making the song. I even revised the original copy because I didn't think it was good enough, even though I finished. The metaphor, "takes the cake" stands out from the whole thing. And a "mystery to unravel" is pretty much self-explanatory.

The similes are:

"...as scary as the Grim Reaper." means very terrifying.

and "just as horrifying as Dead Space" is completely traumatising to be in a similar situation.

Difficulty:

It wasn't as hard as I thought it was, considering I finished it in a whole 1 hour class, so it wasn't hard. But it did stoke me a little bit on editing the finished version.

That was my blog post about how I created the song. Thank you for reading and I hope you have a good day!

- Andrei Montellano