I've always loved dissecting song lyrics, but doing that for videogame music always feels like a coin flip. I do find that, more than anywhere else, videogame music is absolutely rife with nonsense lines. Take this one from raid boss Sugar Riot in Final Fantasy 14: "Now we come to orange / Gotta rhyme something with orange / 'Cept that nothing rhymes with orange / Think that I'll just forget 'bout orange."
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Erm, yeah. A little goofy and sorta thematic with her whole graffiti artist shtick, but the lyrics still give me insane whiplash every single time I hear them. Then there's your edgy stuff, like Devil May Cry's Devil Trigger: "All of these thoughts runnin' through my head / Arm on fire, veins burnin' red / Frustration is gettin' bigger / Bang, bang, ban...
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