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Challenging a Queen - Blue Edition (feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn & Laura Bailey)

from Stray Gods by Austin Wintory, Tripod & Montaigne

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You’re lost, little girl
You shouldn’t have come here
And I sure ain’t in the mood
To make new friends

Go home, little girl
The shadow’s drawing near
And you all alone
We both know how this ends

Let’s see how far she bends
We all know how this ends

Hope everyone’s having a great night
I guess I’m this evening’s sacrifice
But I’ll see what I can do
You deserve a good show

Big hand for your usual M.C.
She’s planned a brutal takedown just for me
Hopefully, I last a couple rounds
You deserve a good show
I won’t let you down

My, my!
We caught a butterfly
Such a delicate thing
What a find!
I hope she doesn’t mind
When we pull off her wings

Maybe you don’t know who I am
Maybe you don’t know who I am

Well I don’t know anyone
I’m new
You, what’s your name?
What do you do?
That’s the thing with the front row
You’re part of the show!

How keen
A standup routine
Knee deep in a grave
Works the crowd
Wrapped in a shroud
A corpse in a cave
Maybe you don’t know who I am
Maybe you don’t know who I am

Hey, can’t say I do know who you are
Some sort of golden age-type star?
You’ve never really been on my radar
Before my time
A discontinued line

Don’t you have any idea what you’re dealing with, child?
Surprise! Surprise!
Coins on your eyes!
Give them to the ferryman
Get it in your little head
You’re spitting at the Queen
Of the Dead

Out of interest, is anyone here dead?
No one?
Yeah, that’s what I probably would’ve said
Hey, let’s prove that we’re alive!
Let me hear you!
People on my right!

Here we go!

Oh, oh oh oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh

On my left now, come on!

Now that’s what I call a show!
Every single one of them a star
Hey! Maybe it’s you who doesn’t know
Who they are
Who they are

Every night, they come in here (Dance and stamp your feet!)
Spend their money on your beer (As your skin rots off in sheets)
Are they even in the frame? (You’ll be back at my door)
Do you know a single name? (Deep below the floor)

They just come here to forget
How it ends

The tide, the surging sea
The swell on the sand
Songs rise in every key
At her command

Your majesty (The tide, the surging sea)
Do you understand (The swell on the sand)
Who I am (Songs rise in every key)
Who I am
Who I am

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from Stray Gods, released August 10, 2023
Cowritten by Austin Wintory & Tripod
Produced by Austin Wintory & Joris Hoogsteder

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