The Cake Is A Lie

All my year 6s and 7s have to write me a song for assessment this term. They need to make up a song, type up the lyrics, do a rough demo vocal recording (on an iPod or phone or something), have a go at chording it up, and write out the music for four bars of it. After they are handed in, I work with them to fix up the chords, make garage band recordings, add some auto-tune and make class cds. It's fun.

Joel's song is based on the computer game Portal. He didn't attempt a cliche love song like most of the girls did... though I wonder if he isn't a little in love with GlaDOs - Portal's psycho AI antagonist. There's plenty of passion in his song anyway.

REFRAIN

The cake is a lie

 the cake is such a dirty lie.

The cake is a lie

 the cake is such a dirty lie.

VERSE

 GLaDOs & me, we used to be friends 

& we would play with portal guns together

then one day she said at the end 

there would be cake. The cake is a lie 

I stumbled on this old man’s lair 

I went in there

written in blood on the wall it said 

‘the cake is a lie’ and I thought... what the? 

REFRAIN

the cake is a lie 

the cake is a such dirty lie

 the cake is a lie

 the cake is such a dirty lie 

CHORUS

And GLaDOs said ‘there will be cake at the end’

& i’m like, ‘oh yeah forget about that silly old man’

 then GLaDOs lies to throw me in the fire pit.

 And GLaDOs says ‘there will be cake at the end’

 & i’m like, ‘oh yeah forget about that silly old man’ 

then the cake is a lie, the cake is actually a lie. 

VERSE

I cried & cried cause GlaDOs had tried

to poison me with neuro toxin

she made me kill Companion Cube

my only friend. the cake is a lie

I remembered the silly old man 

Written in his blood on the wall there was

An arrow pointing …. exit  

REPEAT REFRAIN

REPEAT CHORUS