Jam Mechanics S3E02: Socks Around My Ankles

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

Prompt: "One (K)night's difference"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Fix Itself

Additional Challenge: A compliment

Lyrics:

I said "I dunno, doc" as I sat up on the table

my shirt off, thankful just my socks around my ankles

I've had no luck with proper diagnosis

my internet doctor just sent some shrug emojis

and so she jots down a note, this'll do the trick

get back to your old self quick

 

But I'm stubborn and a skeptic

but this doctor won't accept it

 

She says "Take This and Call me in the morning"

so I shake it and I say I can't afford it

but she insists and writes me a prescription

so I throw it in the cabinet with the other dozen pills

that I've ignored and sorta hope that it'll magically fix itself

 

now its been 6 months so I come in for a check-up

She asks about my regimen and so I have to fess up

The bottle is still intact

and my motivation's weaker than a childproof cap

This calls for a higher dose, you're so easy to diagnose

 

You're just stubborn and a skeptic

and this doctor won't accept it

 

Take This and Call me in the morning

I make a play to ask about the side-effects and warnings

she evades this and writes me a prescription

and walks me to the pharmacy and watches as I pay and leave

and wonders if I still believe that this'll all fix itself

 

So I'm standing in the bathroom, bottle on the windowsill

hyping up myself 'cause I've never liked taking pills

I pop the top and to my surprise

there's nothing but a note inside

 

It says: Take this, and call me in the morning

I love you and you're handsome and important

and I want you to feel like you're accepted

so I wrote you my love as a prescription

 

So I take it, and call you in the morning

my heart aching from the way that you support me

and sometimes I get down, and afraid to ask for help

But I know it won't fix itself

 

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: The Other Boys

Additional Challenge: Must use the word "POPCORN"

Lyrics:

Popcorn

Now I have your attention

I got a two minute pitch and I'd like you to listen

So you've been putting up with suitors for a week now and

These losers can't do any of the cool shit I can

 

I don't have money, I don't have fame

Or blue blood flowing in my veins

But excuse me

 

Princess I'm not like the other boys

 

Dragon

Yeah that was me in the yard

Drove a 12 foot polearm through it's burning heart

You probably couldn't tell with my helmet askew

But as the beast fell baby I was winking at you

And the wizard in the hills who was raising the dead

I cut him a deal before I cut off his head

A hundred strong choir of your bloodline past

Singing love songs at your window

 

I don't have land, or military might

I don't have anyone to hold in the night

Excuse me

 

Princess I'm not like the other boys

 

They might have it all but you've still got a choice

Power and blood, connections and coin

Or me and whatever I've got going on

I don't want to scare you by coming on strong

But I'd love you better than any of them

No plot of the devil or creation of men

Could touch you when I am there at your side

 

And I don't have money, I don't have fame

Or blue blood flowing through my veins

But excuse me

 

Princess I'm not like the other boys