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  • "Gordon's Crowbar Blues"

    It all started with a tram ride
    In a government facility
    With desert winds, and rocket engines
    And M.I.T. credibility

    There was Barney and there was Walter
    And a suit all orange and black
    Cause we all wish theoretical physics
    Was cooler than lots of math

    But oh no!
    Resonance cascade!
    Lodge that crowbar
    In some headcrab's face!
    If only I had stayed
    Home from work today!

    Suddenly there were lasers
    And aliens running everywhere
    With too many limbs blowing up into gibs
    I need to change my underwear

    And as if that weren't enough
    The government sent lots of grunts
    They set up turrets and shot their bullets
    At everyone, including us!

    Oh no!
    Resonance cascade!
    Now even marines
    Wanna shoot my face!
    If only I had stayed
    Home from work today!

    (Bridge)
    And through all the death
    All the destruction
    You may be wondering
    How I maintained my health
    Learned to use guns
    And crawl through vents obscurely?

    I owe it to the hazard course
    And the Gman's creepy ways
    I think somehow now I'll make it out
    Live to do science another day

    (Back to Verses)
    So I burned some blind tentacles
    Launched the lambda satellite
    I even fought babes in a room of crates
    Before grunts punched out my lights

    Long jump modules, gluon guns
    Now I'm ready for the end
    Just gotta play some stupid jumping games
    Before I put this thing to bed

    Oh no!
    Resonance cascade!
    Xen's hospitality
    Is less than great!
    If only I had stayed
    Home from work today!

    (Slow ballad-y chorus)
    Then the Nihilanth
    Said some creepy things!
    While I set bombs
    In his exposed brains!
    I hope the Gman's
    Job offer is not too lame!

    (Regular chorus again)
    Cause oh no!
    Resonance cascade!
    Has led me back
    To the tram again!
    Only now it is
    Flying round in space!

    And I wish I had stayed
    Home from work today!
    _______________________

    May put this to some music myself if I don't win, but I'd love to hear Remo's rendition :).