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So, we were talking on the Apterous chat about my theatre background and something happened and Apterous the musical got brought up. For fun, I wrote lyrics to what would be a first number. Take a look.

I’LL STILL FLY

CHARLIE REAMS:
What do you do
When you love counting down
And you need to practice
Before you head off to town?

JAMES ROBINSON
What do you do
When you have a dream
To win yourself a teapot
And to make your mum beam?

KERRY ALCOCK:
What do you do
When you have your own chic
And want to share hair bones
With your favorite clique?

INNIS CARSON:
What do you do
When you like the dictionary
And want your own place
To be legendary?

CHARLIE REAMS:
What do you do

JAMES ROBINSON:
When you need an escape

KERRY ALCOCK:
From the real world around you

INNIS CARSON:
And you don’t have a cape?

JAMES/KERRY/INNIS:
What do you do? (x4)

CHARLIE REAMS:
Hours at the coding bench
Have finally been worthwhile
For all of you Countdown fans
This will fit in your lifestyle
It’s the game we all love to play
With Riley, Hewer and Dent
And you can meet some new friends here
It makes all of your time well spent
Forget about the UK
Forget all of its woe
Here for even ten minutes
Your happiness will grow
This site is called Apterous
You may be asking why
Because even though it has no wings
This world will still fly!

JAMES ROBINSON:
This site is perfect for me
How the time goes by
And even though I have no wings
My dream will still fly!

KERRY ALCOCK:
They love my cavewoman style here
It brings a tear to my eye
And even though I have no wings
Ruby Firecracker will still fly!

INNIS CARSON:
I can feel my brain still growing
All of the words I learned until I die
And even though I have no wings
This future champion will still fly!

ALL FOUR:
Apterous is my new home
For however long I say
This community of all us fans
Helps wake me up on every day
I don’t know if I’ll get on the show
Or if it’s what I perceive
But even if things don’t turn out
This website will never deceive
So many new games to play
I can count down until I sigh
And even though I have no wings
Right here we can still fly!
I don’t know what the future holds
Whether tomorrow I’ll laugh or cry
But even though I have no wings
On Apterous, I’ll still fly!

Is there a specific theme tune that this goes well with

James Robinson wrote:Is there a specific theme tune that this goes well with

Eh, I wasn't particularly thinking of a sound with this yet, these are just initial lyrics, if it ever did take a serious next step I'd discuss with music people to figure out a rhythm and compose music to it.

You've got to make this happen now.

Why are the lyrics all about you, you egomaniac.

I'll start writing some music for this tomorrow

A+

I particularly enjoyed the reference to the seminal "we love Countdown/we go to town" rhyme in the opening verse.

Am I the only one who thought the start should be sung to "With a Little Help From My Friends"?

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Am I the only one who thought the start should be sung to "With a Little Help From My Friends"?

No.

It's not inconceivable to do it to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MO_GWwn-z8