Ode to TTFAF

**Exxucus** · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 928 Location: Daein

For my British Literature class we were required to write an ode to anything we wanted, as long as we could make it seem dignified and introspective. My first thought was to do an ode to guitar hero, but that was too broad, so I narrowed it down to TTFAF.

I'm just posting this here since someone might get a chuckle out of it, or it could just be completely terrible to you. Whatever the case, I enjoyed writing it, so I hope you enjoy reading it.

Oh! Final song of deep blue set,
Thou art the arbiter of greatest skill.
Thine spiraling myriad of rainbow gems
Makes many a plastic shredder weep in despair.
Thine arena atop the mountain of amps,
To the length of your trials of skill
Makes thou most worthy of thine elevated name:
Through the Fire and The Flames.

But lo! For I have come to love thee.
Thine impossible challenges give to me
Greatest feelings of elation and pride.
Just two years past, I formed my resolve,
Upon first touching the fabricated frets,
To one day conquer thou, mighty beast.
And one summer's evening, while staying in lands far off,
I made good on my vows eighteen months old.

Thine song began, and in an unorthodox style, so did I,
Striking the strings with my elbow,
And with eight fingers bearing down upon the frets.
I tapped with such fluidity that thine intro simply flew by.
My hand returned to the strings, the bohemian section past,
And picked furiously at the plastic bar, to make my combo last.
'Twas in this section that thou coerced me to tilt,
And call upon the power of the stars themselves.

Thou tested me still, with furious, fast fretting,
Accompanied by sporadic supersonic strumming.
A verse, a chorus, a bridge and fills twice over,
You assault me mercilessly, 'till all went quiet,
And thou reached thine faux denouement.
Thine silence is broken by chords split
Betwixt fingers two and four, followed by sweeps
Reigning in the section aptly named “Synth Death.”

After the reprieve of scales ground to dust,
Thou built up to thine crescendo of difficulty
And bore down upon me with thine solos gleaming.
Solos of seven strings, thrashed by Oriental hands,
Now stained by false shame for crimes not his own.
These solos intertwine with those of a humbler man,
But one no less fierce, for together, the “Twin Solo” is born.

Smashing through the strumming and tearing through the tapping,
I made my way to thine most cursed of sections, “So Far Away III.”
Here thou hoped to vanquish me with zigs-and zags crossing red,
but I spammed through with no hope of perfection.
With naught but a reprise of thine opening riff and a short solo left,
Thou seemed fit to concede defeat to my efforts.
And as the final chords scrolled by, thou appointed a number,
a special number, of 578 trailed by three others.

With five golden stars, I was blown away with excitement.
I had long despised thou for thine greatest challenge,
but now being conquered, I hated you no more.
I respect you, and all that thou stand for.
For it was thou that spurred my skill,
It was thou that drove me to learn music theory.
It was thou that brought me to become a ScoreHero.
It was thou that forced me to improve what I was.

Through the Fire and Flames, thou stand as art,
and forever you shall to me, but frightening no longer.
For on the wings of a dream, to the burdens in my heart,
Thou art the one who strove to make me stronger.
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How Awesome GHWoR Is wrote:

Yeah they were. It's amazing how I had an almost naked lady rubbing her boobs on my head (I'm the drummer in the video) and I was like "Hey GTFO I'm trying to play".

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**Klaww** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 1296

You took something that's not that serious, and made it sound so. Props.
Hell, these lyrics are good, I might try to write a song out of it (with your permission, of course) ha, but good poetry.

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**Exxucus** · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 928 Location: Daein

Wow! Thanks for all of the positive feedback! I just turned the paper in on Friday, so I've got no idea what grade it earned, but I'll let you know when I do.
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How Awesome GHWoR Is wrote:

Yeah they were. It's amazing how I had an almost naked lady rubbing her boobs on my head (I'm the drummer in the video) and I was like "Hey GTFO I'm trying to play".

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**sadied0g** · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:48 am Post subject: Re: Ode to TTFAF

**dave0113** · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject:

I'd give you an A, it is well written IMO. Having said that, learn to write poems about real guitar, noob (just kidding of course).
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**Shredin0id** · Joined: 03 Jan 2011 Posts: 154

Nice poem. I never knew it was possible to actually write something that long for one song

I felt like a god when I five starred it!
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**FinalSunrise** · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:20 am Post subject:

I'm pretty sure DF uses 6 strings, but making it seven gives you that alliteration lol
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