On Episode Two, we catch up with Bug Hunter's drummer Kyle Hodgkinson to talk about college hijinks -- and get a couple of song prompts!

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Challenge: Change one letter of one of the other's song

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BUG'S SONG

Title: Both

Lyrics:

Dear captain Stanley I hope this note finds me well

I hope you're reading this tomorrow from inside my empty cell

the bars won't budge at all and all the guards they watch me well

oh Captain Stanley I just really have to say

after I dodged you in dubai and cleared your checkpoint in LA

I began to thing that you just liked to watch me get away

which you'll be doing...

Soon as I get this door unlocked

well as soon as I get this bar removed

or as soon as I bribe this guard outside

I'm finally screwed! My Game to lose

I was the best there ever was at what I did (but so were you)

I'm finally screwed! I have no chance

I am the fattest, slowest rat in a castle full of cats

It came down to freedom or to gold

I got caught 'cause I tried to choose both

Oh captain Stanley I think you have proved your point

this staring contest through the bars won't serve a purpose in this joint

and the sniper pointed at me, well, is certainly a choice

but Captain Stnaley you seem to forget

There's a reason there's 100 million bounty on my head

all the governments have sought me but no one has claimed me yet

so as soon as I (pow!)

well maybe if I (ping!)

uh... oh... noooooo

I'm finally screwed! Here comes the noose

I was the best there ever was at what I did (but so were you)

I'm finally screwed! I had my chance

Now I'm the fattest, slowest rat in a castle full of cats

A final fatal path forked in my road

I got caught 'cause I tried to choose both

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MATT'S SONG

Title: Piano Beacher

Lyrics:

driftwood body and razorclam keys

sea glass pedals and mica dust shimmer and shine

come sing with me

i want to break you open like a scallopshell

figure out what makes you sound so beautiful

all i know are the simplest chords

triads fifths and rootnotes, but you make them more

come sing with me

i want to peer inside you with a microscope

you washed up here from god only knows where

in perfect tune and i can't bear to not understand things

so here i go once again

you think i'd have learned it by now man

some things shouldn't be figured out and

by peeking behind every curtain you find

sometimes

you see what you shouldn't

some remedies don't need a hammer

some mysteries don't have an answer

but when all you have is a scalpel

then everything looks like a cadaver

driftwood body and razorclam keys

beach piano, all covered in seaweed and salt

come sing with me

i want to crack you open just to see your pearl

i want to learn what makes you sound so beautiful

you washed up here from god only knows where

in perfect tune and i can't bear to not understand things

so here i go once again

you think i'd have thought to correct it

you can't keep the frog and dissect it

by cutting the guts out of everything

all you get is blood on the carpet

some remedies don't need a hammer

some mysteries don't have an answer

but when all you have is a scalpel

then everything looks like a cadaver