In episode 4 we drop all kinds of ancient knowledge and talk about our least-favorite airport

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

----Bug's Song-----

Title: How to Build a House

Prompt Page: Deep Sea Exploration -> Quenching -> Magia Naturalis

Lyrics:

I'm at the grocery store thumpin' every watermelon in the bin

Dunno what I'm listenin' for but I saw my father do it when I was a kid

He never taught me his tricks so its been hard

cause guess and check only goes so far

And now I have a watermelon of my own

So I'm gonna teach it everything I know

Like how to build a house, how to tie your sneakers

how to walk and talk, and when you gettem, how to brush your little teeth

and when you're wrong, how to say you're sorry

but this list is getting long so we can start it in the morning

when you're old enough to know it, your dad'll show you how

I'll teach you everything you need to know

How to Build A House

But I dunno how to build a house but I can teach ya

when ya need to lean on people and just ask someone for help

the best lesson, while you're malleable, is teaching you how valuable

it is to say: "I don't have to do everything myself"

Because the ancient books of wisdom we're full of men who didn't listen

but they claimed to know how everything worked

they'd say the roof bones connected to the wall bones connected

to the floor bones connected to the Earth, and that's

[Chorus]

Cause you don't know shit kid!

But I can help ya with it

We should start with shapes and colors, how to recognize your mother

but I'm waiting and impatient and I really wanna skip to

How to Grow a Garden

I got some seeds to get you started

We can grow some watermelons, teach each other how to tell when

they are ready or be patient when they're still a bit too hard, and

I can't build a house, unless it is for birds

But I can try to build a home and get you ready for the world

And when you are, I hope you'll do it too

Because you wanna be like me and that is something I would do

When you're old enough to do it, you're gonna show 'em how

Teach 'em what I did and didn't know

How to Build a House

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Four Stop Signs

Prompt Page: Whippits -> Biomaterial -> Structural Integrity and Failure

Lyrics:

there's a tree growing out of the gutter

in the house across from here

there are cracks in the brick of the big smoke stacks at the ironworks museum

there are bodies in this building's foundations, prophets sick with weather pains

press your ear to the doors or the hardwood floors that swell up when it rains

You are living in the arhythmical heart of the empire

And it's four stop signs at each intersection

And it's all uphill in every direction

Hear the groaning of the city, count the rings around its eyes

Find out how big animals like this can grow before they die

Harvest ivy from the ceiling, drink the damp right off the wall

Become a vessel for whatever's growing in the laundry pile

Scrawl your debut novel longhand on the hulls of subway trains

Serve single malts and double shots for half minimum wage

Get married in the basement, get tetanus for the high

Get sexy new infections just before they go worldwide

You are living in the arrhythmical heart of the empire

And it's four stop signs at each intersection

And it's all uphill in every direction

Kiss yourself goodnight and sneak out

When you're fast asleep and don't come back

Kiss yourself goodnight and sneak out