Limited Time Lament

Lyrics

--- [Opening Recitative – The Discovery] [orchestra swells, a hopeful melody] [tenor/soprano, with joyous anticipation] 🎶 [My heart is light! My soul doth sing!] 🎶 [For today, I shall feast upon my beloved thing!] 🎶 [I approach the golden gates…] 🎶 [The menu board awaits…] [orchestra holds a suspenseful tremolo] 🎶 [But—!!] [orchestra crashes into a dissonant minor chord, a gasp from the chorus] 🎶 [IT IS NOT THERE!] 🎶 [MY LOVE! MY JOY! MY FLEETING INDULGENCE!] [strings weep in dramatic swells] --- [Aria of Devastation – “GONE FOREVER”] [full soprano/tenor belt, wailing to the heavens] 🎶 [GONE FOREVEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!] 🎶 [No more shall my tongue be graced with thy flavor…] 🎶 [No more shall my soul be lifted by thy grease!] 🎶 [Oh, crispy, tangy, perfect bite…] 🎶 [You vanished in the dead of night!] 🎶 [And I? I am forsakeeeeen…] [melisma riff that lasts way too long] [chorus of mourners hums softly: “Fooooorsaaaaaaken…”] --- [Recitative – The Employee's Indifference] [baritone cashier, monotone and unbothered] 🎶 ["Yeah, uh… that was a limited-time thing."] 🎶 ["Corporate discontinued it."] 🎶 ["D’you wanna try the new spicy ranch wrap?"] [thunderclap, choir gasps, violins shriek in horror] --- [Final Aria – The Desperate Plea] [desperate, pleading, on hands and knees at the counter] 🎶 ["PLEASE, I BEG THEE, O WORKER OF THE FRYER—] 🎶 [Check the back… CHECK THE BACK!!"] 🎶 [Some frozen relic may still remaiiiiiin…] 🎶 [Some blessed remnant of its reignnnnn…] [employee sighs, shuffles away, checks halfheartedly, returns] 🎶 ["Yeah, nah. We don’t got it."] [orchestra sighs with a defeated descending scale] --- [The Tragic Finale – Acceptance & Suffering] [music slows, strings tremble, the realization sets in] 🎶 ["Then I shall waste away, bereft of joy…] 🎶 [A hollow husk, a shattered boy…"] 🎶 [A cruel, cruel world, so heartless, so grim…] 🎶 [For never again…] [deep inhale] 🎶 [Shall I taste… THE McRIIIIIIIIIB!!!!!!!] [absurdly long high note, audience weeping] [orchestra crashes, timpani roll, dramatic silence] [single fry drops to the floor] [blackout]