Commissioning a symphony in C, CAKE

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"Commissioning a symphony in C"

So youll be an austrian nobleman
Commissioning a symphony in c
Which defies all earthly descriptions
Youll be commissioning a symphony in c

With money you squeeze from the peasants
To your nephew you can give it as a present
This magnificent symphony in c
Youll be commissioning a symphony in c

Completely filling the palace concert hall
Its warm and golden like an oven thats wide open
It has a melody both happy and sad
Built on victorias young triads

Youve entered the room with great caution
Though no one in the hall is even watching
They are transfixed
They are forgetting just to breath
They are so taken by your symphony...
In c

Youre sitting there thinking your thoughts
They are not about what is but what is not
You are sitting there breathing in your breath
You are seldom breathing life but mostly death

So youll be an austrian nobleman
Commissioning a symphony in c
Which defies all earthly descriptions
Youll be commissioning...
A symphony...
In c

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Music

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• Cake
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[only1joe4life]

Is it ironic that this song is in D minor?

[ClosestToTheSun]

Oh God the internet has become overrun with people who care just a little too much.

CAKE is good music, Bach is good music, good music is good music but better music is better. We get it.

[versedaaron]

@supperhey in that case why not Java or Assembly?

[supperhey]

In C, why not C++ huh?

[AUsernameFORU]

@Electrochoch Classical Music and Rock never dies. Good music is timeless.

[gossi8086]

R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, the greatest of all C symphony commissioners

[Sothiamient]

@fajwat I agree with you on the nobleman's self-absorption; that much is apparent in the lyric. However, the lyric suggests the piece is stealing the spotlight from the nobleman's emergence. I feel the poetry reinforces the symphony's greatness, or at least its ability to transfix its audience. The Viennese noblemen were largely well-trained in music, so I find it difficult for the commissioner to not know any better; rather, it is more likely that he is suddenly made aware of his own vanity.

[phukifiy]

@Electrochoch psh they said metal/ rock was dying in the 70's with disco, and in the 80's with tipper gore and the "P.M.R.C.", and even with grundge, it's just unstoppable. Get over it!

[MusicPhene17]

My fav Cake song!!

[wasabiii2006]

@Electrochoch not true, and if it were so it wouldn't be progression. 

[thediaryofjane21]

@triberocker definatly not a melodica