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Andre's Collaboration

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7.) Your Muse and Andre have decided to collaborate. They want to write a song together. Write Their Song – This prompt may be a poetic form).

NOTE: This song is set to something along the lines of the first song ("Siegfried's Song" - 00:00 to 02:53)

Andre and The Muse's first hit song together ended up also being their first foray into Christian Folk Metal. The Muse, well known bad boy of the Christian music scene, joined forces with Andre and his folk metal roots to come up with the following song:

(rasping, wailing vocals)
Jeeesussss
King of Kings
Son of the Living God
Alpha and Omega
Jeeesussss

Come have your way with me
Help me to really see
What is now and what will be
Oh pretty, pretty plea(se)

(rasping, wailing vocals)
Jeeesussss
Fountain of Living Waters
True Vine
Lamb of God
Jeeesussss

(fading out)
The Way
The Truth
The Life

The lyrics are short, of course, but intended to be repeated over and over again for nine and a half minutes straight. The success of this track is what ended up inspiring Andre to develop his Breakdancing My Way Through The Bible: A Folk Metal Odyssey in a similar fashion where, if played straight through and only once, the concept album is done in about twenty minutes. But, out of respect for his fans, and to bring resonance and gravitas to the material, the repetition of the lyrics has BMWTTB:AFMO currently at a run-time of nearly eight hours.

While Andre admits that this will likely be problematic from the standpoint of booking venues and playing enough shows to offset the cost to stage everything, he has to give the source material its due, and obviously if one is to do a K-pop-inspired folk metal magnum opus on the glory of God structured in parallel with the Holy Bible, one best come prepared to wrestle with it for a while. Bathroom breaks during the show are highly discouraged, so please don't bring any beverages into the theater... for your own sake.