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Iâm back! That âscheduled vacationâ I mentioned in my previous video was much needed and much enjoyed but Iâm excited to be back and working on a heap of new and upcoming projects! This being the first! For certain a smaller project to facilitate that time away, this song was written and recorded, with the video mostly completed before I left and now Iâm back just took a little more work to have ready for you.
It's certainly the saddest/most emotionally intense song Iâve uploaded to the channel in a long, long time. In truth this song was written on August 5th, which not only was my birthday but also the day of Nerdcore Party Con, an event I had been looking forward to performing at for years after it had been delayed several times due to the Pandemic. And an event I would have been attending had it not been for the Covid I had contracted the day before my flight on the 3rd.
Alone and isolating as the friends I had been desperate to see were partying on the other side of the world and with my US vacation cancelled (though thankfully later rescheduled the following month, sans the convention) I tried to write a song to distract myself. But I guess I needed an emotional outlet and it turned out to be this song.
I sat down with the intent of writing first and foremost about the cat. But ultimately, I didnât have much interesting to say about the cat. The cat is adorable but really serves as a vehicle to learn about the world, lore and characters of the forgotten city.
The idea of a city filled with abandoned sentient robots so ancient that they donât even remember how they gained that sentience was fascinating to me. There are various theories about the Companions and how they came to be, but I found the idea that they simply donât know and that uncertainty to be what was really interesting. So I chose to write from their perspective, unsure and theorising, based on some of the ideas the Companions put forward in game.
I hope you all enjoyed this slightly heavier and less cat-centric take on the game. Itâs not often I flex those more serious writing muscles but Iâm very proud of the result. Rest assured, there is some trademark Stupendium brand silliness, bureaucracy and sinister authority figure-ness on the horizon. Stay tuned!
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Lyrics and Vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium & Lizzy CJ
Beat produced by @DansonnBeats
Mixing and mastering by @OxygenBeats
B12 3D Model by Rogerio.F..Alves
"Stray B12" (skfb.ly/owBUs) by Rogerio.F..Alves is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Stray, its world and characters are the property of BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive.
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The Stupendium is a musician, animator and content creator, creating weird, wonderful and usually incredibly nerdy songs and animations. Join them on their journey to obscure, niche internet stardom! They have some pretty decent videos, wonderful facial hair and a great sense of discomfort describing themselves in the third person.
Views : 2,103,924
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Sep 30, 2022 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I love how you captured how human the robots are with the end of their verse going from heavy philosophy to âOh, thereâs a catâ like a flip of a switch. I have legitimately had a moment of being deep in thought, see a cat, and then completely losing my train of thought because of said cat.
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What struck me hardest was the quiet sense of rage building within the song. The desperate reaching, clawing for the surface, the stars that aren't aligned in a circular pattern. It starts out softer, slower, and builds in a crescendo emotion. Also there's a cat. đđť
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I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but from around 4:00 the use of "stray" sounds like pray and that is just absolutely genius
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Oh. I was under the impression this was just a cute game about being a cat in a cyberpunk city. I did not expect to get whallopped between the eyes by an existential nightmare. Goddamnit Stupendium.
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Not a single human face, yet you managed to convey and make me feel every emotion. I guess this means I am not as artificial as i once thought.
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A different kind of technological dystopia song than we're used to out of Stupes, but an amazing one nonetheless. You never cease to impress us.
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God I cannot express how much i adore the lyric:
"They say your future's in the stars, so what are we to do, when the stars just form a circle so your future is a loop?"
So beautiful and tragically poetic
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Omg I am loving the metaphor you created by drawing a parallel between you being a stray cat, and "straying" from the path. It lets the cat protagonist shine as a symbol of hope for all of the robots who wish to be free, saying that they'll stray with it. Stray from the dark, from their programming, from this dystopia they've been trapped and looping through for millions of years. To finally follow a different path, with the stray and B-12 at the forefront. Beautiful writing.
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At the risk of sounding repetetive, this is incredible!
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As a certified Lover Of When Robots Are People (they're just handin' 'em out these days) this one hits HARD, in a really good way. Also, as someone who didn't actually know anything about this game's plot before, this does a really good job of communicating everything you need to know for the themes and references to still work.
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Generally speaking, your dystopian corporate songs are usually my favorite. Thank you for this music video. I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next one!
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I could not quite place why this song hit as hard as it did, but I think it finally clicked. You have this absolutely amazing second verse that perfectly encapsulates the post-apocalyptic despair of the world presented in the game, and as it goes on it feels like it just gets more and more hopeless and angry and volatile, and then
"Oh. There's a cat."
I think it hits just right because it isn't just applicable to the game. So many times I've had moments where I feel like life is going to break me, and the despair is gonna set in. And then there's a cat, just this little adorable kitty named Garth that doesn't care how heavy things are. He just wants attention and that's enough to make the rest of it not matter for a minute.
It's that little bit of hope in the wake of everything else that makes it all just a little less heavy, and it's presented perfectly with 4 words.
Thanks for making me cry, Stupes, I definitely needed it. 10/10 song as always!
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One of my favorite things about Stupendium's writing is that he is able to make such heartfelt songs out of left field. I would have expected a song focused on the cat, but I couldn't be happier that he chose the companions. Keep at it Stups, at this point you are unable to disappoint me with the quality that you put into your videos. Let alone the bops that they truly are
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I don't know how you do it, but every song you release becomes my new favourite. Each and everyone is so consistently high in quality and super catchy, its honestly astounding how you manage to keep this up but I am beyond grateful you do!
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Literal chills. It was a magical moment when the chorus started singing "Open the sky" and your voice melted into chesty, pained cries coming through both ears. The sound was reminiscent of the final line in Toybox.
Also, I knew absolutely nothing about Stray before this song, and now I want to know more.
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"Stray for the tools Noah doomed to the Ark."
I don't know why, but this line hits really hard for me. The idea that this place that was built to save people has only succeeded in becoming a prison for the ones responsible for building it...heart wrenching.
It also reminds me of 'The Angel's Egg,' if you've ever seen it, for reasons I won't spoil for those who haven't. Suffice it to say the line fits it well.
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I like how the song is not entirely about the cat, but more about the robots and how long they have been trapped and alone. Great song and my new personal favourite! :D
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Sad, upbeat...it doesn't matter to me, a Stupendium song is always a good listen. I hope you enjoyed your vacation and keep up the fantastic work! đ
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Stray from the light
Stray from the path
Stray through the night
Stray through the dark
Stray from the safety of whatâs known
Stray till you save me
Stray till youâre home
Stray for an ending
Stray for a start
Stray for a future exhumed from the sparks
Stray till we suture the wounds of the past
Stray for the tools Noah doomed to the ark
Stray for a chance
Stray for a purpose
For the Discarded
Stray for the worthless
Stray for the last of us made to endure it
Stray for the lost on the way to the surface
Stray for a city and slip through the seams
Stray for the sun that weâve seen on our screens
Stray so that one day we might feel itâs beams
Stray for tomorrow
Stray for a dream
Man I love this song
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LYRICS: VERSE 1 (B12): Itâs cold and itâs dark Keeping hold of a spark They sealed us away They were keeping us safe But as years creep to age Thereâs a hole in the ark Lost in circuits and screens And imperfect machines I course through the wires And optical fibres Wait for an outsider To come set me free So maybe youâre the saviour Iâve been praying for? Fluffier than anticipated but Iâll take it, sure Iâve sent you these lights through this unending night If my memory is right, Iâve never strayed before So bring me online, Iâve been locked inside Between the neon lights we are lost to time Itâll be alright, I can be your guide Beneath a sea of silence and a concrete sky CHORUS: To all those left deep inside these walls Their lone hope rests in your tiny paws Where the night extends and the time sits paused This home wonât mend till the sky here falls Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? VERSE 2 (THE COMPANIONS): They say your futureâs in the stars, so what are we to do? When the stars just form a circle, so your future is a loop Eternity of servitude with no one left to serve it to You could've turned us off before these sewers turned to tombs We turned into you â Now we grapple with the syntax Humanity was doomed but we have to pay your sin tax Mimic every routine trying to be all youâve been Trying to find a new dream sifting through your bin bags Why we do the things we do is truly half the riddle Maybe you were living proof intelligence is artificial? Built this place to keep you safe and then the haven changed to grave But left us sentience by mistake? Well thatâs hardly civil At least, we think you did, thatâs what we seem to be Is this gift a glitch that twisted free of bland obediency? Or are our souls a mix of ceaseless tangled frequencies? Chewing up and spitting memories in random sequences? All our thoughts, all we feel? Ones and noughts trapped in steel? Something more, something real? Threaded code caught in a wheel That spins an algorithmic tapestry Of what it thinks we have to be A Frankenstein of fragments Fractal pattern personalities If imitationâs flattery, perhaps thatâs why you wired it in A parlour trick to keep the systems ticking whilst theyâre idling So can it be that deep inside thereâs more than code youâll find within Or are our minds and lives alike just combing the recycle bin? If love is emulated, would we find it just as sweet? Where lies the defining line âtwixt binary and grief? Is the nature of whatâs real in how it starts or how it feels? So if the past canât be revealed perhaps what matters is belief? We live eternal with our circuits running laps Until our servos burn out and we, purposeless, collapse Or society's detritus tries to rise and find a life outside But how are we supposed to manage that? Oh... Thereâs a cat? To all those left deep inside these walls Their lone hope rests in your tiny paws Where the night extends and the time sits paused This home wonât mend till the sky here falls Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? VERSE 3: So stray from the light, stray from the path Stray through the night, stray through the dark Stray from the safety of whatâs known Stray till you save me, Stray till youâre home Stray for an ending, stray for a start Stray for a future exhumed from the sparks Stray till we suture the wounds of the past Stray for the tools Noah doomed to the ark Stray for a chance, stray for a purpose For the discarded, stray for the worthless Stray for the last of us made to endure it Stray for the lost on the way to the surface Stray for a city and slip through the seams Stray for the sun that weâve seen on the screens Stray so that one day we might feel its beams Stray for tomorrow. Stray for a dream. Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky? Wonât you open the sky for me? Wonât you open the sky?
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