SAROS / A High School Yankee's Circular Reasoning [SynthV Original]

What up YouTube, I’m tmtortellini, it’s been 4 months since my last original song, and I still don’t know how to master my tracks. This is my official entry for Eclipsed Sounds’s Saros Contest 2026! It’s a song about a guy who likes to drive his motorcycle really fast on his hedonistic journey of excess and self-destruction :3c etc etc. HUGE MEGA ULTRA SPECIAL THANK YOU 64 TO MY FRIENDS Tenn and SlicedTomaato for crunching with me to help me finish the lyrics, art, and Japanese translation (coming soon!) at the last minute. And thank you once again to my friend Hali for putting up with my annoying texts. This was really stressful and I never want to crunch on a release ever again. 🎸🏍️ CREDITS 🏍️🎸 music + lyrics: @tmtortellini vocals: SynthV SAROS illo board - @tmtortellini illo clean-up - @retrotenn video: @tmtortellini ✏️📚 TRANSLATIONS 📚✏️ JP: @/SlicedTomaato (bsky) If you want to submit your translation for other languages, please contact me! Song will be up on Bandcamp for purchase after the contest judging is over! BTW… if anyone's wondering what happened to the Spanglish metal song I was originally going to submit... There were some forces beyond my control that prevented me from finishing it within the timeframe. But it will be returning in some form at some point in the future :3c ———————————————————————— 🎙️🗣️ LYRICS 🗣️🎙️ Three years passed and I’m Still the same Got a one-track yearnin’ for Money and fame Oh yeah Stop bringing me down Mama’s always sayin’ that I’m Askin’ to die But I got more pride than Marty McFly Oh baby Please stop bringing me down Thinking you’re tough? Nobody’s tougher than me Thinking you’re fast? Just try to race me and see Oh when misfortune plays her game I’ll wager all the same Roll the dice and bet on thunder And it’s cool, cool, cool to be cool in the end Pedal to the metal, go screamin’ Right round the bend Oh’n when the cops come a-callin’ my name We’ll see this through cuz My gear’s on high Engine’s ablaze All the way all the way ‘Til the end of my days Six years passed and I’m Still the same Got a souped up Harley and an Armload of dames Oh yeah Stop bringing me down Mama’s still a-sayin’ that I’m Askin’ to die But I got my Colt .45 By my side Oh baby Please stop bringing me down Thinkin’ you’ll fight? Try and I’ll bop you on sight Thinking you’re bright? Watch my sparks ignite And if misfortune plays her game I’ll beat ‘em all the same Raging ‘til the light goes under And it’s cool, cool, cool to be cool in the end Pedal to the metal, go screamin’ Right round the bend Oh’n when the cops come a-callin’ my name We’ll see this through cuz My gear’s on high Engine’s ablaze All the way all the way ‘Til the end of my days [Guitar Solo] And it’s cool, cool, cool to be cool in the end Pedal to the metal, go screamin’ Right round the bend Oh’n when the cops come a-callin’ my name We’ll see this through cuz My gear’s on high Engine’s ablaze All the way all the way ‘Til the end of my days