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DeifiedNur Ein XVII
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Deified
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Night Sky

Entry from Deified in Nur Ein XVII.

Use a palindromic musical phrase of at least 6 notes total (melody must be a palindrome but rhythm can change)

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Deified - Night Sky

*Notes: Each verse melody is a palindrome made up of smaller palindromes, and the melody of the whole song is a palindrome as well, with an instrumental version of the B pattern from the verse stuck in between the two verses.

A pattern: CD FG AA GF DC
B pattern: GFG ACA GFG ACA GFG ACA GFG (which of course is reducible to GFG ACA GFG x 2 with an ACA in the middle)
verse pattern: F [ A pattern x 4 ] [ B pattern ] [ A pattern x 4 ] F

The last four lines of the verses are also a repeat of the first four lines in reverse order with small alterations, and the lyrics even almost make sense this way.
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Oh I am just a poor boy not a victim
Live my life without regard to dictum
Carry all the baggage I have gathered
Don’t know why we all pretend it mattered

She said and don’t you know about anything at all
You think I’ve been deified now

Don’t know why we both pretend it mattered
Carry all the baggage we have gathered
Live our lives without regard to dictum
I am just a poor girl not a victim no

We build our idols up to tear them down now
Know we’re better people than them somehow
Bury ev’ry thought we're ordinary
Gather all the objects we can carry

Oh no and you’ve been crucified hung out there alive
But you won’t be deified now

Gather all the objects we can carry
Bury ev’ry thought we’re ordinary
Know we’re better people than them somehow
Build our idols up to tear them down now hey

Reviews

2 posted notes

vowlvom

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the rhythm of the verse guitar / vocals on this really reminds me of "Nobody's Empire" by Belle & Sebastian. The chorus / B section melody is pretty catchy. Something feels missing though, it feels like this song needs more going on to really click together, or something. Not bad, but weirdly unsatisfying.

furrypedro

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I have to give you kudos for making the palindrome really obvious and making it actually make the song more memorable for that. Except for this song I've pretty much totally ignored the challenge (which I perhaps shouldn't as a judge), but I think you've executed it most effectively and so I increased your ranking a couple of places based on that. Apart from that the song does it's job, it's inoffensive if unremarkable, but the verse melodies and another sax solo give it a bit of an edge in this field.

Night Sky - Deified | Nur Ein