(Final sound: A child’s giggle, then silence — followed by one loud, wet crunch.) Would you like this formatted as a lyric sheet, or adapted into a pseudo-score with rhythm suggestions?
Tick-tock, tick-tock… The rabbit lost his pocket watch. Mama said, “Don’t eat the sky.” But the sky was made of lullaby.
Tick… tock… I forgot what I forgot. Tick… stop. vocaloid kikuo
(Tempo: 160 BPM — frantic, like a music box winding down too fast)
The parade in my skull plays a trumpet of bones. Every step that I take breaks the floor into stones. Mother’s soup tastes like prayers and old lace. She smiles with the teeth of a much younger face. (Final sound: A child’s giggle, then silence —
Dolls in a row With their button eyes sewn— They whisper, “Come play where the daylight won’t go.” A merry-go-round with no horse and no crown. Just a needle that sews all the children facedown.
(Spoken, whispered, doubled) “Why is the moon bleeding?” “Shh. That’s just jam.” “Where is my shadow?” “It ran… it ran… it ran…” Tick… tock… I forgot what I forgot
One, two, three — the oven is cold. Four, five, six — my fingers are sold. Seven, eight, nine — the doctor is blind. Ten, eleven, twelve — “You’re doing just fine.”
Here’s a short piece written in the spirit of (a Vocaloid producer known for surreal, haunting, circus-like melodies, childlike vocals juxtaposed with dark lyrics, and glitchy, repetitive, often dissonant instrumentation). Title: The Candy That Ate My Clock
La-la-la, lick the knife. Daddy’s home with a brand-new wife. She wears a dress made of Sunday clocks. And the candy just ate my tick-tocks. (Eat them up, eat them up, tick-tocks stop.)
The moon is a spoon And the stars are soft-boiled. I swallowed a tune That my tongue has now spoiled.