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Chupacabra
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Inflatable Vegetables

Entry from Chupacabra in Nur Ein XV.

Use exactly two instruments (plus vocals) to create your song.

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Chupacabra - Inflatable Vegetables

She’s been weeping all evening...

Through the dark back alley doorway
Find the club where cryptids lurk
Downing wine and cheap spaghetti
Or dance before they go to work

When I take my set breaks -- I hang out at the tables
With tear stained or shredded napkins, oh

She’s been weeping all evening -- Fresh from Puerto Rico
I try to understand her with my lousy high school Spanish

Chupacabras
No entiendo tus palabras [I don’t understand your words]
¿Por qué lloras tanto? [Why are you crying so much?]
¿No te gusta mi canto? [Don’t you like my singing?]
Chupacabras
Niña reptil y macabra [Reptilian and macabre girl]
¿Cómo puedo ayudarte a parar? [How can I help you stop?]

Through the rest of dinner rush, I
Sing her songs of sleeping goats
Sneaking through the underbrush
And sucking blood out of their throats

When I take my next break -- I hang out at her table
And replace her tear-stained napkins, oh

PC - CH

The club floor is soaking wet
She hasn’t stopped crying yet
The other patrons are upset
And they’re staring at me threateningly

She’s a sodden scaly mess
Mascara on her dress
And the manager insists
I have to take her home with me

CH

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Love the story in these lyrics--probably my favorite lyrics of the round, and I’m glad you worked in the narrator’s “lousy high school Spanish,” which neatly eliminates any doubts over accent or grammar. I do think there are moments where you’re expecting to hear a rhyme and don’t, which is really not satisfying (each whole prechorus, basically), but otherwise memorable, cute, and quirky. Not sure if the weeping chupacabra was an intentional conflation with La Llorona, but it’s a vivid image either way. I didn’t find the music particularly notable--my favorite thing about this was definitely the lyrics. Vocals seemed mixed a bit loud and the doubles weren’t very tight, which was distracting.

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