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Ben Newman ([personal profile] bnewman) wrote in [community profile] bn_songbook2020-07-12 01:50 pm

FROG!

The "story" presented in the American release of Blaster Master doesn't make a lot of sense.  What is a vast underground world full of mutants and robots even doing there?  It's never explained.  But at least there's a frog.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: the Stage 4 theme from Blaster Master by Naoki Kodaka

listen to this song

/ A5 - / / / /
 
Once I was a normal kid
I had a frog, his name was Fred
But then, one day, Fred ran away
Slipped through a grate, into a crate...
 
/ F - / G E / - - / /
 
The crate was labeled "Biohazard!"
"Mutagenic!", "Antimatter!"
As I watched, Fred started glowing
Started growing, growing, growing...
 
/ A5 - / G - / F - / E - /
 
I don't know if this is smart
But Fred's a frog close to my heart
So, as he hops into the gloom
I make my choice, and seal my doom
 
/ F - / E - / / !
 
I followed Fred down underground
He can't be far but I don't care
I won't go home until I find my
 
FROG!
 
I guess you'd say a rotten day
My favorite frog just ran away
I don't know how he disappeared
And anyway, this place is weird...
 
I thought this place was just a pit
But I can't see the end of it
There's no such cave beneath this town!
Look out — whoops! — it's a long way down...
 
No way back up, I think I'm stuck
And — Hey, what's that, a robot truck?!
I guess I'm going to have to drive
If I want to get out alive
 
Because it seems this tunnel opens
Out into a secret world and
Somewhere in that world is my pet
 
FROG!
 
I think I'm lost, this place is huge
And every turn brings something new
Each room I see is vaster, stranger
Every one is full of danger
 
Crystal caverns, sunken cities
Lots of them are really pretty
But they all have deadly robots
Spikes and pits — who built all this?!
Why is this here?  I can't be sure
I wonder if Fred's in this sewer
Though there's a chance that I could die
I have to try, and that is why
 
I'm fighting through an endless maze
Of twisty little slimy tunnels
Searching for my giant, mutant
 
FROG!