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Well, the fun times were short lived huh? One minute you’re trying to talk yourself up to Swing with your baby at the school dance One Special Night -next you’re looking back at the past like Oh god, go back! I’ve made a mistake! And now there’s a super secret secret you have to carry to your grave. It’s so wild that my whole life I’ve been planning to go back in time and change my past that even young me was trying to figure out a way. I even came up with a special passphrase that Future Me would have to say to little me so I could make sure he was real if I had to trust him… something that would only make sense to younger me so that I don’t grandfather paradox myself out of existence. But then again, would that be so bad?

Let’s figure out if you can figure out where this one goes in the timeline… each song has a specific time period associated with it. Or maybe one it’s thematically related to? Hmm 🤔 So this song went hard for me back in the day, I still think it slaps… for the worst zone imho on Sonic 1 on the Genesis: it has no right to be as good as this on the Master System. This song was kinda giving me that whole big Jazz Swing Band kinda vibes, and parts of it were sorta inspired by the music my grandfather used to play on the old records- and this very odd Claymation music video that my mom played for me- “Reet Petite” by Jackie Wilson. Idk why I was into it- looking back: it’s bloody nightmare fuel. But the song is a bop. There’s other lyrical inspirations sewn throughout the narrative here, but I’m just jammin… don’t mind me.

Let’s get back to the more silly songs from my childhood instead of the depressing angst of the Trauma Years series… Was in two minds about posting this one tbh. Feels like an incomplete set without it… but at least it’s not as bad as the Hilltop Zone lyrics. I feel like this one was inspired by something one of the younger brothers of my school friend said while we were hanging out one time. Never give me a song and a prompt… it will end up with something like this. This rhyme going around in my head was about all I could do to keep myself from controller hurling rage while climbing the sodding never-ending waterfall of doom.

Let’s go back in time a little… Before the trauma really kicked in and reminisce about a simpler time… When walking to school with my friend Charlotte was possibly one of my simpler, yet happier memories. Friends often have their ups and downs but like, 30 years is pretty good. It was harder to make my school route work when she moved, but on mornings where I could make it in time to walk together definitely made it better. Unfortunately there was a point where I was taking detours around my detour to avoid people who wanted to beat me up on the way to school. That’s why it was difficult to make it in time… While I was worried about many things, at least when you were with me I didn’t have to think about them too much. Thanks for everything Chick.

This is catharsis… finally getting to put this together, it needs words. Not that I’m a great singer, but my words have made it off paper at least. (It’s only taken like 26 years) But this feels like the perfect way to end the Trauma Years of this Wierd Gaz Yankovic Project. Thank you for coming along on this rollercoaster through my memories as well as enduring the ups and downs of my past. I’m going back to Sonic 1 on the Sega Master System next for some fun and lively tunes to just call it a complete set but I didn’t wanna leave it with a bittersweet taste after all these hard to swallow memories. Look forward to seeing how the fun of Sonic 1 turns out. Take care. Stay creative!

Hey y’all, abruptly switching gears on you with a bit of a Tonal shift with the penultimate song of the Trauma Years project… But I promise It’s canon to the timeline. When you’re at the end of your rope and things look the darkest- isn’t it so jarring to feel the shift in your heart when someone reaches out and grabs your hand right as you’re about to go over the edge? That’s kinda how it felt… Building up and up to catastrophe. Fighting for your life every day, trying to make it through one more- but thinking “what’s the point? I’m either gonna die by virus if my stepdad doesn’t end me first!” things were looking bleak. But then someone caught me right before I was about to hit the canvass… And I was like: No, this person is worth surviving for. If not for myself… for her. My reason.

Let’s all lose our minds rn in this hyped up, amped up installment of the Trauma Years part of this Wierd Gaz Yankovic project. #tbf I don’t remember what title I was working with originally “feel like I’m going psycho” is a bit wordy, but this wonderful new word I’ve learned about being gaslit sums up the feeling quite well. Like you’re starting to think you’re the crazy one? Everyone at school knows you’ve had enough and you’re throwing hands, but the quiet kid suddenly snaps back and he’s the psycho? Y’all made this. Meanwhile you’re getting beaten the piss outta you at home, and everyone in your hometown tells you what a great and upstanding bloke your stepfather is- and they won’t even hear of his misdoings behind closed doors. So it’s all like ohh right? Fr? I just strangled myself then? Wow, I guess I’m crazy fr fr! 🙄 Just imagined all this abuse and torture did i? The way schools let the bullies get away with it as well- feels like I’m Johnny Bravo trying to tell everyone theres a clown on the airplane wing! i must be outta my damn mind. 🤡

Crack your knuckles- it’s another dose of the Trauma Years with your captain Wierd Gaz Yankovic. Things start ramping up here, the violence at home got worse, bullying at school got worse… Running away sure wasn’t working. I found myself getting sent to the principals office even when I was the recipient. Figured if I was going to get suspended anyway I was gonna make sure the punishment matched the crime. If I was gonna get beaten at home for being sent home from school I’d at least wanna do to them what he was gonna do to me… I’m not saying that’s a good thing. But it’s where my mind went… If ur sending me to the electric chair: I get to link a car battery to your pepperonis. And every time I hear the words “zero tolerance bullying policy” I get irrationally angry. You tolerate it, right up until the victim tries to defend themselves. And if I’m getting sent to the principal for blocking my face with a backpack, you have a warped view of what constitutes as bullying. Next time... It’s my turn. Bricks will be in the backpack. And I’m swinging for the bleachers.

CHOO CHOO! All aboard the Trauma Train! Ain’t stoppin for shit in this Wierd Gaz Yankovic sonic song project! This was honestly my favorite zone in Sonic 2 on the SMS The track was a bop and filled me with such motivation and hope… (False hope, but still) Every time I’d make a break for it I felt like Sonic just peeling out and running as far and fast as I could. Course I’d always just end up at my grandparents house or my cousins. One time tho I did actually make it across the county line (but ended up crawling under a fence onto a military base and had to book it like a bandit before I got caught) that was scary enough,and I didn’t know what direction to head in next, and it got dark and cold real quick. I tried tho. God, did I try.

Having secrets is a killer… almost feels like drowning sometimes… So it’s back down into the depths with the Trauma Years of the Wierd Gaz Yankovic sonic song lyrics. And no, sorry to disappoint but the song doesn’t actually tell you the secret… you have to search for the answers in other songs. It’s like an ARG with secret lore you have to dig for if you want the secret. Sorry, I don’t give it up this easily. This is a secret I’ve protected most of my life and often at the cost of my life. Imagine working that hard to protect something just to drop the mic in one easy to decipher lyric. HAH keep sleuthing.

I know the lyrics date this song HARD The Berlin Wall and Marylin Monroe’s relationship are ancient history at this point… No longer relevant But that’s like, how far back I’m going with these songs. This is LORE. The Berlin Wall was still a current topic, and one of the biggest things to happen in my childhood… plus I had just heard this thing about the iconic ms Monroe marrying some super famous baseball player? Idk cos at the time I think I thought he was a tennis player… I wasn’t that knowledgeable about American celebrities. This was more just about me struggling with being in school and trying to focus on my school or homework, it all felt kinda pointless tbh. Things were slowly getting worse at home and secondary school bullying was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Taking into account that I figured I wouldn’t even live to see my final exams: was there a point in studying? “Running away” this time usually entails me picking a direction that might lead out of town and “chippin’ off” as I would’ve coined at the time (translation: booking’ it, legging it, peeling out) and going only as far as I could get before it got dark and scary… I’d usually make a beeline for grandmas house after that. But I tried… bless my socks (one time the asshole threw me out in just my socks and I walked to the other side of town down back dirt roads around the fields to get to grandmas house cos I was embarrassed to let anyone from school see me in just socks walking down the shopping arcade and have more ammunition to use and bully me for being a peasant) so I ended up at grandmas but usually taking the long way round. Luckily granddad kept my uncle’s old shoes for me to put on, while he made me some oxtail soup and let mum know where I was. I did try to get out… more on my runaway attempts/adventures later.

New Wierd Gaz Yankovic Project Let’s call it “The Trauma Years” by far the hardest chapter of my past to write the lyrics for… So while the other songs were from the before times of playing Sonic at my cousins or Sonic 2 at my friends house- these songs are from the era after that, when I was gifted a hand-me-down Sega MasterSystem and didn’t really have an excuse to wind up across town at a relatives house. So I escaped into this game. And as things got worse at home the lyrics descend deeper into my trauma and crisis as my schoolwork started to enter decline and bullying becomes a daily issue at school. Things just keep getting worse… So understand what I went through just to make these songs again. My lyric books were left behind on the final day I ran away from my stepdad. So they’re mostly transcribed from memory. In order to pull those memories I had to relive them. It’s been a rough week. A lot to unpack here. Thanks to everyone who supports my project. Kind words appreciated.

I nearly forgot this banger of a parody from Sonic 3 and Knuckles the TRUE death egg zone! Metal Me 3.0 concludes the robotic transformation trilogy with an anarchistic rebellion against its creators and fighting back against the programs and constructs that keep us subservient. Like I said in the last video about systematic oppression and trying to force every square peg to fit the round hole of society. Nobody is in control of you. Only you are YOU. Not your skin. Not your bones. Not your scars. Nor your pain. Nothing they do can change you. They don’t own you. Get your fist pumping you crazy funky square peg!

Next installment of my infamous sonic 3 parodies from sky sanctuary zone Yes, people, that’s right! The next controversial hot topic is implied joint suicide! yayyyy 🙃 tackling everything that nobody ever asked for… Honestly the theme of facing death in my life has been a constant, and it’s kinda status quo for me. Feeing like I don’t belong or deserve to be here and it would be better or easier if I was dead. Idk but like you talk about that in therapy and they put you on suicide watch. Like fr? How is putting me in a medically sanctioned prison gonna make me feel like I “belong in this world”? It’s a reaction to pain. If you go to the doctor cos someone ran over your foot and they call the cops to take YOUR driving license- WHERE’S the logic? I’m not the one driving like an asshole. Mental healthcare in this country or in general sucks. Just another way they want all square pegs to fit in round holes.

I hope you enjoy this new installment of my infamous sonic 3 parodies from Lava Reef zone I didn’t really have anything for this one back in the day… I wanted something that had fire and pain in it and felt like something people might have experienced with this feeling like you love someone so bad that you wanna go Pompeii all over again. I think the mood and theme of this one reflects and almost parallels the Icecap Zone song. This one’s about fire. The other is about ice. They’re both about the pain of love, or being loved, maybe u reciprocated or unrequited from different angles. One is the breakup of the other.

The final part of the Mummies trilogy in my infamous sonic music lyric parody series And hopefully the plot twist doesn’t come outta nowhere but I think I telegraphed it in the first one back in Marble Zone, the slaves becoming mummies was only the beginning or things to get worse… as they walk around like mummies kept alive by the curse, but they remain aware of the history of what was built and why it’s there- Unlike zombies. Which is what I wanted to illustrate with their continuing narrative of the pharaohs bs even after his rule is past. They remain trapped forever in their state of perpetuity. But envy the others who were allowed the release and right to pass on as nature intended: including the pharaohs crush.

Continuing my infamous sonic parodies from the iconic flying battery zone of sonic 3 and knuckles. Auto, did anyone else playing this pick up on that James Bond musical motif in the baseline? I think it goes well with the music them of the level to call back to some awesome James Bond Movie titles that felt like they really vibe with the concept. Though I kinda wish Skyfall had come out when I made this originally cos I might’ve been able to do something else with the “Eye on the Sky” line.

I hope you enjoy this silly installment of my infamous sonic 3 parodies from mushroom Hill Zone Also… if you LOVED the Hydrocity zone parody about excessive alcoholism- you’ll loose your shit over this one about drugs! Well, more specifically magic mushrooms. We’re just covering ALL humanities worst vices, aren’t we? We did Gambling Alcohol and now Drugs. We also spoke of hubris and the impact of slavery, the futility of life and drowning in the darkness of self doubt, as well as highlighting the before and after effects of someone’s greed when enacted upon an indigenous tropical paradise. Also the pride of an overly flatulent noblewoman who blames her expulsions on the help. What should I do next?

Back on the launch base for the next infamous sonic music parody with this simplified version of what I had going round in my head… So, as many people did- I couldn’t get past the Barrel of Doom on carnival night zone, but my cousins seemed to have a save file further on than that… so they played on the final level a lot. (Which is why I didn’t get to see Or hear Ice Cap zone until I was 19 and dating StabbyGirl) but this song was floating round my head while my cousins played on it- and I got the vibes… though I had no context why Sonic and Tails were busting into launch base zone out of snow from the start. The was a electronic dance song around about this period by Dj Jean called “The Launch” that didn’t have much in the way of lyrics and I felt was absurdly lacking… Something is better than nothing.

Having a cool time with the next installment of my infamous sonic parodies from the legendary icecap zone of sonic3 A simple one- but a good tune desee something catchy and this one got stuck in my head while I was playing through this level after my breakup with the infamous StabbyGirl #iykyk I was about 19 or so when this one found it’s way into my brain. At the time there was a dance remix of “Cold as Ice” doing the rounds and maybe that was an inspiration? Idk But most of my new friends on Rumble won’t know the story of StabbyGirl… maybe I should fill you in? TW: Spousal Abuse, Cheating, self harm and attempted murder When I was dating this girl who cheated on me with my best friend she tried to cut herself when I told her I was leaving, when I tried to stop her grabbing a knife from the block she turn the knife on me and jammed it in my rib cage. I couldn’t leave, I couldn’t escape, so i barricaded myself in the closet until she had passed out but she was playing loud Emo music the whole night while she cut herself and I sat in the closet with the guilt and pain and fear. So the lyric “Heart sharper than glass cut me up twice” is very much true. She cheated on me and then stabbed me. That’s a double whammy. Unless you count that I can’t listen to the song Arms Wide Open by Creed without breaking as emotional damage… then she cut me three times

Ok, let’s get back into it for the sequel to Mystic Cave’s “Spooky Killer Clowns” story, this time from the Clown’s POV and some twisted lyrics I came up with mostly when I was 14-16 but I’ve had to fill in some blanks but trying to keep it feeling as on theme with the original. The same cadence that was in Mystic Caves music (Entry of the Gladiators) was all over the place in Carnival Night Zone so I had to make a part two. And I spent SO LONG stuck with that Fuckn BARREL #iykyk listening to this music and getting more and more vitriolic. This is kinda what came out of that…

Different vibes here… still on my infamous Sonic music parodies. This time with act 2 of #marblegardenzone from sonic3 This one hits different when you first fall into the level and awe the place is barely holding together as it is… something HAPPENED here. Gardens aren’t usually so “vertical” but then robotnik comes in with his Dril-o-matic in act two and everything starts caving in. Like, the sacrilege tho. This an ancient city I’m sure and in minutes this dude took it out. I wondered if there was a little hubris on the echidnas side though, and building something so close to Hydrocity wouldn’t case some land subsidence? Hm

I wonder if this installment of my infamous sonic parodies from the iconic hydrocity zone of sonic3 will spark controversy with anyone? I think it goes without saying that these songs are parodies and (even though some of them were written by me when I was 8) they aren’t meant to be shared with anyone who IS 8. I wrote this song when I was about 18 anyway Sorry, Karens, you can go off- but that’s the legal drinking age in the UK- And also if your somehow getting far and JUST NOW getting offended, then you really don’t know what the songs are about and weren’t here when 7 year old Gaz was waxing about Jews in slavery being buried alive in the pyramids of Giza. Seriously. These are PARODIES and crazy shit a kid like me came up with swear words and god knows what in- you should KNOW what I’m about. Also sorry it’s been a few days, I’ve been back at work and was getting g over some stuff and have been feeling drained of energy to put these together- Also it’s really hard to remember these lyrics from 30 years ago, or from 20 years ago but you were inebriated heavily cos you partied WAY too hard: Point is- drinking too much isn’t fun in the long term. And that’s about all I’m gonna say for now.

Part two of the Sonic3 Angel Island zone themed parody song …this one follows the same structure as it’s chronological predecessor but imagine an island paradise turned on its head, where once we were talking about heat being the reason people would come, now this heat is driving the inhabitants away. Juxtaposition. I wrote this first but didn’t have it finalized enough to put it down properly and I knew I wanted to make Act 1 different enough to show the tonal difference in mood as well as storylinewise what it would feel like from the POV of a jungle inhabitant who was selling postcards one minute and was running for their life the next.

Hi y’all! I’m back! And a Happy New Year! Ok so this will be a two-parter… The first act of Angel island zone is totally different from the second and I felt like it deserves separate lyrics to capture the juxtaposition of the scenery and what happens storyline wise. Just another one of my infamous sonic parody karaoke songs I sing along to while I’m playing the game… this was a work in progress for a while cos I knew what I wanted to do with Act2 but Act1 was harder to riff off (I wrote act 2’s lyrics first)