Dan Bull

[fox69]

"St. Ebbs"

"St. Ebbs"


Tell me - do you believe in fate?
Do you believe that we each have a fee to pay
And a leaving date with no hope to deviate
That our breathing rate ceases when we reach this age?
Where do we go when we leave this place?
Is it nowhere where nobody can see your face?
There's no need to kneel on your knees and pray
Cos seasons change so it may be today

Looking back on the one life I've had on this Earth
This planet, this world, I sit back and I ponder
I have become fond of the fact I've lasted this long
Though in the past I've done wrong and my battery's gone
Will things be any different here after I'm gone?
Will anybody listen to my tracks or my songs?
You're asking the wrong chap I know as much as you
So I'm just confusing matters but it has to be done
It's a factor in all the planet's mass populace
That we're asking for knowledge but lack what we want
There's certain facts that we won't actually know
We lack the composure to relax and just focus on absolute calm
And that can do harm so we have to succumb
To the fact that after we're gone we're transmitted back to the cosmos
And after the storm the pattern goes on
So you have to be strong, cos that's where you belong

But I want you to see what it's like to be me
And I want you to remember me

I want to be remembered when I enter into heaven
The day I die then greater than September the eleventh
But then again when in the history of men
Has there ever been an event that we never will forget
Eventually everything tends to irrelevance
'Til we're left with an ebb that can never be filled
Everything built inevitably will
Descend into a stillness until the end of the world

Seasons will change
Empires will fall

Don't panic, our planet's to vanish
You've had a few chances and now it is happening
Man, he has managed to damage the planet
So bad that it cannot be fixed
But the bigger the bomb, the quicker we're gone
So I quicken my rhythm and finish the song
I sit in the dark and picture a part
Of my heart but it's hard cos I ripped it apart
Split into half with all of our smarts
Sick of the starkness but I can't start
On a mission to start building an ark
Filled with the spark of a star that is dear to my heart
And here I depart

 

[fox69]

"Starbound"

"Starbound"


[Verse 1:]
I'm stranded in space
So I place my hands on my face
Did you guess
This isn't a situation I can handle with grace?
Nevertheless, Dan's on the case
And I never pander to tastes
In case they change like the range of animals and plants in this place
I've visited all different corners of the Galaxy
There isn't any flora and fauna that I haven't seen
I'm interplanetary
Always in thrall of the random scenes
Tangerines
Dreams
You'll never see such things in your National Geographic magazine
Grab a bit of cobblestone
Carry it and hobble home
Boulders on my shoulders and I'm sorry for my collarbone
But I've got to build a model home
I don't want it to be monochrome
Colours light my life when I'm on my own
If I can't craft with it, I don't want to know
I don't want to, no
Oh, what a homophone

[Hook:]
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now

[Verse 2:]
I'm a hip hopper
Got a disk in my shiplocker
Might be fly, swap a wing for a pig trotter
Tick tock
Plot thickening to get hotter
Planet calling Daniel, I think I need an ink blotter
You're full of gas like a Novakid
Aww, did I make you sad?
Well I hope I did
I'm cooking up a plan and I'm about to blow the lid
Although there's nothing in the pan so don't open it
So hungry
So hungry
I'm in a hurry to put something in my tummy
So hungry
I'm so hungry
I'm in a hurry to put something in my tummy
Yummy
Brineapple pie, Neonmelon and a Pineapple
Pine for a Coralcreep
Curry
Curry
I'm so hungry
I'm in a hurry to put something in my tummy

[Hook:]
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now

[Verse 3:]
I need to explore
I've got an aching feeling, the call:
The Universe is waiting
This is a race for the mineral and ore
Love the thrill of the chase so I'm winning in the war
Love Dreadwing Penguin
I pin him to the floor with a minimum of effort
Then I'm ready for some more
I need to explore
I've got an aching feeling, the call:
The Universe is waiting
Every Galaxy is a snowflake
Floating in the sky like an island, no fake
This is a fact; it's actual
Zoom in and in and in
And interact with the fractal
Every snowflake is a Galaxy
Floating in the sky like an eye looking back at me
This is a fact; it's actual
Zoom in and in and in
And interact with the fractal

[Hook:]
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now
Starbound son
Beam me down
I am a Starbound son
Leave me now

 

[fox69]

"Stroking A Cat"

"Stroking A Cat"


This is not a subject many are approaching in rap
Among the showboating and boasts, I know I'm so full of crap
But I won't be complete without penning an ode to the fact
That I feel most at home stroking a cat
I feel his paws on my shoulder so I turn and I'm poking him back
He kneads my knees and I know he's cozy
The chap's hoping to doze in my lap
It's fairly safe to say I'm open to that
Because I'm most at home stroking a cat

Jimmy
I'm stroking a cat
Sammy
See him doze in my lap
Patty
There's few feelings closer than that
I'm at home when I'm stroking a cat

Behind the ears, now under the chin
Tickle the tummy, and feel the fluff on your skin

I had a cold heart, but that frost was going to melt
Because your fine fluffy fur was the softest thing I've felt
Put me in contact with my lost and inner self
But gosh, your droppings are the most obnoxious thing I've smelt
If Jay Z had a baby with a crazy cat lady
Their DNA would mutate to make me
It may be crazy that I cradle cats in place of babies
But you wouldn't make me change my behaviour if you paid me
Maybe it's love, perhaps it's toxoplasmosis
Honestly, I'm kind of shocked that I wrote this
I'm too far gone, I'm lost and I'm hopeless
Put a poster on the lamp post for me, and hope someone will notice

Jimmy
I'm stroking a cat
Sammy
See him doze in my lap
Patty
There's few feelings closer than that
I'm at home when I'm stroking a cat

Behind the ears, now under the chin
Tickle the tummy, and feel the fluff on your skin

I try not to treat you anthropormorphically
But damn, if you could talk to me
That'd be awesome, see
I need to reassure you that I'll always be here for you
Though we are mere mortal beings
I would run a mile for every single minute that I fear for you
I'm no loyalist but to me you are the real royal
Developed and bred up as a vicious predator
I found it tricky to picture, 'til you ripped that stick of feathers up
You're like a teddy bear, but sentient with agency
That's why I savour the sentiment you'd deign to play with me
The wide world is dangerous; home's a haven, sweet
And if you need love enough, I'm sure we have a vacancy

Jimmy
I'm stroking a cat
Sammy
See him doze in my lap
Patty
There's few feelings closer than that
I'm at home when I'm stroking a cat

Behind the ears, now under the chin
Tickle the tummy, and feel the fluff on your skin

Aside from mewling, I'll never get to hear you speak
But we communicate in other ways, enough to know you're unique
The pet sanctuary was a feline Who's Who
Perusing kittens like I was trying on a new shoe
I wonder what the factor was that made me choose you
Don't know, perhaps you chose me, and I just knew too
You had a true cuteness I never grew used to
It rips my heart apart knowing that soon I'll lose you

I don't want to lose you
I love you

 

[fox69]

"Summer"

"Summer"


Some of the happiest days are when the sun rays cascade
Over your back in the most naturally placid of ways
You don't have to ask whether perhaps it'll rain
And the centigrade never strays past twenty eight
It's fantastically great kicking back with your mates
And knowing no, you don't have to act to your age
You can snack on a Flake or take a basket of cakes
But make sure you've got some factor eight splashed on your face
And the ladies make daisies attached in a chain
While the lads entertain them with a basketball game
And then after we're knackered and the match has been played
Grab a glass of lemonade and relax in the shade
We'll bask and just laze in the grass's green blades
And sit back and just gaze at the paths of the planes
Nothing matters today, you can chatter and play
Playful antics under blankets of immaculate haze

Once upon a summer
The sun plays across the lawn
Once upon a summer
The air is sweet and warm

Once upon a summer
Heavenly and calm
Once upon a summer
It's never been this fun

It's ace when you're tipsy and playing with a frisbee
There ain't been better days in the pages of history
And though your hay fever itches and makes you be sniffly
It's blatantly plain that you'll savour and miss these
Great times when they're gone, days lying in the sun
Bathing, misbehaving and playfighting for fun
They might have been some of the days of your life that you'll always
Be reminded of when your time to pass away finally comes
And as the day becomes night and the sun goes down
The shadows grow slow and cloak round your home town
There's no sound but the bees and the birds
And slowly but certainly the season returns
You turn down to the ground and there's leaves on the earth
Turning brown and allowing the trees to rebirth
There's a breeze in the air and it breathes through your hair
And that's it - summer leaves for the year

Summer's come and gone
The day's no longer young
Summer's come and gone
But the memory lives on

 

[fox69]

"Summer Rain"

"Summer Rain"


Open your little door
Step out into the downpour
Listen to the sound your
Listen to the sound your soul makes
As if it's soulmates
With the ground
The rain falls down
The ground
The rain falls down
To the floor

The summer rain has come again
The pavement sizzles like drizzling lemonade
Oh, and the sunlight seems unlikely
To be on my cheeks for one fine evening

There's nobody else around
Absence has a powerful sound
Blades of grass are fine enough to make a scalpel proud
Alka-Seltzer sizzle drizzle pelts the ground
I can't help myself but shout aloud
To tell the crowd
That while they're out, I'm out of bounds
I could flee till my knees hurt
Feel the breeze in my t-shirt
But there's so many aesthetically pleasing things here to see first

The summer rain has come again
The pavement sizzles like drizzling lemonade
Oh, and the sunlight seems unlikely
To be on my cheeks for one fine evening

Flowers bob, nod and rattle
Under fat drops of rain big as apples
And the street steams like a kettle, singing
Each bead a little a nettle, stinging
My skin in a million different places
Precipitation amidst the vegetation
The British air is changing
And sitting under parked cars there are kitties waiting
Watching me pace by
I stop and then say hi

The summer rain has come again
The pavement sizzles like drizzling lemonade
Oh, and the sunlight seems unlikely
To be on my cheeks for one fine evening

Could never sing, but I sang though; Dionysus
Air rang with the tang of a mango; delicious
Living in a fictitious middle English mangrove, that's been kissed
With the liquid sunshine that some find in Orlando
I hang under the jungle canopy
Catching an undiluted glimpse of clarity
Refracting through the prism imprisoning my sanity
For all the laws we're living in anarchy
Causing wars, it's giving me anomy
The rows of windows are frames inside a strange gallery
Of apathy
Inhabitants happily having tea
Warm water colours reality
Washes away the banality

The summer rain has come again
The pavement sizzles like drizzling lemonade
Oh, and the sunlight seems unlikely
To be on my cheeks for one fine evening

My hair is getting wetter
The air is getting fresher
Before the storm I'm sure I could barely bear the pressure out
But it's getting better now
It was one of those horribly hot days
The barometer's ominous clock face
Was something Hieronymus Bosch paints
From Shropshire to Gloucester to Warwickshire
Forests of conifers congregate like choristers
And praise displays of flowers as a florist does
Knowledge buds and blooms in the soil
Olives crushed producing an oil
To lubricate the mind
Illuminate and shine
A human ray of light
Right through the rain tonight
It just might quite save a life

The summer rain has come again
The pavement sizzles like drizzling lemonade
Oh, and the sunlight seems unlikely
To be on my cheeks for one fine evening

 

[fox69]

"Sunless Sea"

"Sunless Sea"


Oh! Oh! Oh the Londoners come to see the unterzee.
They flock to the docks and watch the boxes and stocks
That are dropped from atop off the
Steamers and frigates and dreadnaughts and cutters and cruisers and corvettes and yachts.
Each and every of 'em a story has got.
Here's ours:
T'was dark when we parted the port
And started our voyage to far, distant shores.
This tiny tub's not the fastest for sure
But I'd rather have her than no transport at all
From humble beginnings I come for your winnings
There's always a calm before there's a storm
So batten the hatches and pull down your patches
We're passing through Gaider's Mourn 'till we find the dawn
Smell the sea breeze, a cold chill, Neptune's deep freeze
Now I'm not sure of the maritime law down here
So we'll do as we please
We sail the sea (We sail the sea)
The Sunless Sea, The Sunless Sea
We sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath the sunless sea (The sunless sea)
We sail the sea, The Sunless Sea, we sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath The Sunless Sea
Tides are lapping on the side, rising damp.
Eyes widen with fright, light the lamp.
No mind how cramped, we will ride 'till we find any island in sight
Now camp.
Is that a lighthouse lamp or a giant crab?
Is it a shark, or can we disembark?
Oh. Rats. Better sink the barge,
Although I'm not a whale I am deffo living large.
You're a landlubber I was born in sand blubber's in my blood
But I look damn good when I scrub up any port in a storm, tear the pub up
Three months at sea means there's gonna be some hubbub
We sail the sea (We sail the sea)
The Sunless Sea, The Sunless Sea
We sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath the sunless sea (The sunless sea)
We sail the sea, The Sunless Sea, we sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath The Sunless Sea
When we've each had our fill of the menu
We head out the venue
Prepared to continue.
Turning that lard into muscle and sinew
Discover just how much swashbuckle is in you
When you're smuggling human souls
Whose tombs are cold
You lose control.
You're ravenous too, the food is mouldy, too damn salty.
The deep hue of this blue's unholy
Fool I told ye
Skippers who consume their crews are lonely.
And fuel is low, we've used the coal, so I'm cruising home
We sail the sea (We sail the sea)
The Sunless Sea, The Sunless Sea
We sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath the sunless sea (The sunless sea)
We sail the sea, The Sunless Sea, we sail the sea
We plunder deep and run from creatures from beneath The Sunless Sea

 

[fox69]

"Super Smash Bros"
(feat. VI Seconds)

"Super Smash Bros"
(feat. VI Seconds)



[Intro:]
[Dan Bull:] Oi, Shizzy!
[Shizzy:] Yeah?
[Dan Bull:] Rap battle? Super Smash Brothers?
[Shizzy:] Wreck
[Dan Bull:] Sorted

[Verse 1: Shizzy]
Look, you've been invited to the battlefield of war
With a cast of characters I'm sure you have all seen before
I'm the Master Hand from smacking you, I'm snatching up your score
Ganon to the Dorf, slamming to the floor, kats I'm packing up for sure
Trophy on my shelf after Yoshi loses his health
Eating like Wario, I gradually loosen my belt
Cuz I get a tad gassy after having devoured
Competitors for an hour, more boss than Bowser

[Verse 2: Dan Bull]
I'm a bad mother! The master of Super Smash Brothers
True fact, don't believe me? Then you can ask others
Got fond memories of smashing them like past lovers
So amass your gang together for the Last Supper
I'll hack and slash them like a beam sword through a pack of butter
I'm heavyweight rolling through like a fat trucker
Slap daft buggers from behind like a back scrubber
Give you a palette swap, to blue and black colours

[Verse 3: Shizzy]
Back brother! Venues get ripped for days
Powerful, like Skull Kid, I'll flip the stage
It won't take a Final Smash from me to bring you D-Day
I'll just wind up and punch your lights out like DK
What did he say? You never heard someone mad before?
Murdering anyone ever to make it, like the Master Core?
If you're taking a minute to battle it's easy
Break the controller, blast your TV
That'll be way better off for your health
It'll be worse if you ever did see me

[Hook: Dan Bull]
Smash! Smash!
Brother, smash! Smash!
You better dash! Dash!
Brother, dash! Dash!
Or you'll get smashed! Smash!
Brother, smash! Smash!
You better dash! Dash!
Brother, dash! Dash!
Or you'll get smashed!

[Verse 4: Dan Bull]
Do you want to demolish this jaunty song?
Take me on one v one, I'll prove you promptly wrong
You're an iddy biddy little Diddy, I'm a Donkey Kong
I'm a Fazioli grand piano, you're a Honky Tonk
Is it bad form to smack you off the platform
So hard your head cracks open like a Smash Ball?
My home run bat will smack you through the back door
So hard you'll be like: "Ow, what you do that for?"

[Verse 5: Shizzy]
Spitting that fire and bringing you hell
Chillen in first? I got a Blue Shell
Go tell ya momma and go tell ya gramma
If they play too I'm swinging a hammer
I'm taking no damage I'm holding the star
And I'm more of a star than a Luma with bars
A legend in fact you can ask about him
I'll burn you like punches from Captain Falcon

[Verse 6: Dan Bull]
I'll cook and sauté you 'til we need some more players
What's fun is four players, as fun as foreplay is
I ain't got beef with you, you little Pikachu
But come and see me on the stage if you're eager to
You'll see the truth, the reason for my fame
When I finish you, what can I say but "Game."

[Hook: Dan Bull]
Smash! Smash!
Brother, smash! Smash!
You better dash! Dash!
Brother, dash! Dash!
Or you'll get smashed! Smash!
Brother, smash! Smash!
You better dash! Dash!
Brother, dash! Dash!
Or you'll get smashed!

[Outro: Dan Bull]
Smaaaashed
Smaaaaaaaashed
Smaaaaaaaaaaaaashed

 

[fox69]

"Surgeon Simulator"

"Surgeon Simulator"


Hi, I’m Nigel Burke
You might know me as the guy that lurks
In the hospital pulling back the final curtains
As saving lives is my line of work
I’m overworked, and I’m overpaid
Nobody else gets home as late
No time to poo, no time to wee
To go on a date, no time to sleep, see
But regardless, of what they’re paying me
I’m the hardest, in the A & E
A couple of whiskies, a couple of baileys
I’m ready for my shift; give me the blade, please
This is an emergency surgery, third degree burns
Leave the patient waiting in purgatory, operating with urgency
We can’t take an eternity, blood loss rate is discernibly
Worse than the state of my purse on my Lace Anniversary
Unlucky
That’s why I stay here so late just to earn a fee
That’s why the patient is late, toe-tagged and lay on a slate
In this infirmary
Yeah, I may have made a mistake
There may be stains on my apron
But baby, hey, I’m just saying
That when the table is shaking
In the back of an ambulance
It’s a little difficult to keep on track what your hands are doing
Oh golly, when you’re on a trolley
Trying to find the right tool’s like Where’s Wally
If I was you I’d be crying for my mommy
I’d give you a tissue, but I’ve not got one on me
Sorry, I’m a little unprepared
But luckily you’re not in a position to be running scared
Caught you unawares, anaesthetised
Now you’re asleep, give me your teeth and eyes
What are you worried about? Who’s scary?
I’m just the new tooth fairy
I’m coming for your calcium
Like a loon let loose in the dairy
When I said I’m not a dentist what I meant is
Of all my skills, it’s just a percentage
My qualifications might be invented
But I won’t get better without trying to attempt it
Dentally demented, I tend to need apprentices
Because it’s them that seem to comprehend more than me
I generally pretend it, and so far I’ve never been suspended
In theatre, I’m territorial
Less surgical, more gladiatorial
If this gets any more gory
I’ll put it on YouTube as a tutorial
I’ve been awake on call for days
My eyes are red as when I went to Ultralase
Not a qualified eye surgeon
But I can’t help but help when you’re eye’s hurting
See, I’m a nice person, Chris Martin
I’ll try to fix you; quick, stick a heart in!
Enough blarting, we’ve hit an artery
Made a chest cavity big enough to park in
Demographically setting a precedent
Increasing the speed that you’ll get an inheritance
I never get done for medical negligence
Not because I’m good, but ‘cause I bury the evidence
Demographically setting a precedent
Increasing the speed that you’ll get an inheritance
I never get done for medical negligence
Not because I’m good, but ‘cause I bury the evidence

Chop chop!
You’re life in my hands

 

[fox69]

"Take Me To Oblivion"
(feat. Baron Samedi)

"Take Me To Oblivion"
(feat. Baron Samedi)



[Dan Bull:]
This is a letter to Bethesda
In which I beg you to stick together
For new Elder Scrolls and you flippin' better
Otherwise I'm gonna pester you forever, well
Except when I'm playing Fallout: New Vegas this November
But please we need another Elder Scrolls
If I don't a hold o' one I'll go out of control
Sure Fallout was a whole different level and it was incredible
But it didn't have the visual elegance and mystic mythic elements
That lifted it through excellence and into sheer perfectionism
Transcendence isn't something I'd expect sitting next to computers
But what you presented to us is beauteous
Playin' Oblivion made me oblivious to my surroundings
How could a game be this intricate?
But after a thousand hours of play
I'm still enthralled with it all now to this day
I've found an escape from the imperial prison of everyday livin'
So take me to Oblivion again
Take me to Oblivion again
Take me to Oblivion

[Baron Samedi:]
Thanks Dan I couldn't of put it better
Get it together, Bethesda or we'll keep pendin' you letters
Being a thought dweller was special but wet was forgettable
So I'll never settle for anything less than an Elder Scrolls
Consumed by Bloodmoon swallowed by Morrowind
When I step into Oblivion I'm instantly lost in it
Escape the modern concrete office
But not only when I pop the DVD-ROM in the slot and unlock my dreams
Grab my magic hat, my daggers and a Wabbajack
Pack them in the saddle bag and travel through these savage lands
It's quite depressin' how obsessed I was getting
With checking out every chest to collect every set of weapons
I stand on the planet's edge and gaze at the hazy seas
It's crazy how ones and zeros behave so amazingly
Take me from these rainy streets
Please Take me to Oblivion again
Please take me to Oblivion

 

[fox69]

"The Aldmeri Dominion"

"The Aldmeri Dominion"


[Dan Bull:]
We are the Khajit, the elite sneak thief
Concealing the secrets that we each keep
With the leanest of feet and the meanest of teeth
We can clean out your keeps in just three minutes each
So that means if you need something stealing
Then really you need to just leave it to me : the Khajit
Look it up, Skooma's the new drug and cooking it up
We produce it with moon sugar, it'll soon soothe your troubles
As you just succumb to the tune of the drums and the lutes
As they hum and they hoot and they strum and they shoot
With the stars, under the blue of the moons
As we run on the rooves through ruins and roots
We are ruling the roost robbing rubies and runes
You will rue being rude when you reach our lair
And you'll kneel at the throne of the prince of Elsweyr

[Chorus:]
Our opinion's the dominion is a kingdom that'll bring Nirn
To ascendance with a vengeance, not dependent on a thing, no

[Dan Bull:]
We're wood elves, what else?
Wood houses are where we delve and we dwell in the dells
Some seldom would doubt if you touch our trees
You'll be held to account
Down for the count down under the canopy
What now for you? Well, you're becoming a canapé
See, we eat each other, we're cannibalistic
And it's a compliment if you should call us animalistic
We're symbiotic with the living things we live with
Resist affliction, Vigor, lead the leaves and lift spirits
These forests will remain forever Bosmer
Real archers in the woods, never mention Kevin Costner
I tote a bow that no-one else could aim as good
So don't claim you could
Or I'll make acquainted, feather, brain and wood
Made of Aldmeri blood, the place we hail from, Valenwood
We came and took our native place and greatly raised it up

[Chorus]

[Dan Bull:]
Yeah, be quiet now, we're the high elves
We're tall enough to take things off really high shelves
We do the bidding of the scrolls of praxis
You'll find us casting magic over holding axes
Exalted and thin with golden tanned skin
Behold the aristocratic and magnaminous grand kin
Descended from the deities so say your prayers please
We've agents every place, increase the range Ayren sees
Clearly superior in whatever area we dare to appear in
There ain't a better Mer here, the more the merrier
So where are your men when you need them?
They see us and flee, fled in terror
You'll wish you wielded just some of that style
When we use the common tongue to summon that bile
If you come and get vile in the summerset isle
Then I'ma set fire to your bum and get wild

[Chorus]