My most recent contribution to the Maraoke video game karaoke songlist – first performed by Lupine and myself 13/02/2026. (With special thanks to Lupine for also preparing the accompanying backing video.)
Inspired by spending far too long at the end of last year playing Lies of P.
As far as I’m aware the first Maraoke song to shout out to the legendary Czech stop motion animator Jan Švankmajer. (The ‘creepy Victorial doll’ enemies in a couple of levels of the game triggered flashbacks to his disturbing short films that were constantly turning up on Channel 4 in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.)
Obviously the Bloodborne with a Pinocchio line came first.
“White Lies”
– after “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” by Melle Mel
(Haaa…)
(Haaa…)
(Haaa…)
(Haaa…)
(Ruff!)
Lace
(Ooh white)
(White)
(Ooh white lies)
Citizens are fashioned
(Blowing through my mind)
From gears and wires and bits of tube
(Life-size)
A very strange contraption
(Let your screws unwind)
The more he speaks, the more untruths
(Start off as an automaton)
Maybe
(Gettin’ more real as you go along)
(But white lies)
(Grow and change)
(Grow!)
(Puppet!)
(Grow!)
Cricket inside
Lamp lights my way
Most of his friends
Won’t last past Friday
Dodge and roll
Swing your pole
Pound ’em down
For more Ergo
The longer you play
The more you slay
Your white lies
Go a long way
To extend your nose
All through the game
While trying in vain
To remember your name
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Grow!)
(Ahh…)
Liar, baby
(Ahh…)
Bad liar, baby
(Ahh…)
Bad liar, baby
(Ahh…)
They won’t ever find out!
(Free will!)
(Bloodborne with a Pinocchio)
(Bloodborne with a Pinocchio)
(Bloodborne with a Pinocchio)
(Thought we were joking, no)
(He’s a Pinocchio)
(White lies)
Rescuing Lorenzo
(Collecting tunes and knives)
And now I have a gun, baby
(High price)
I’ve met Alidoro
(Cuz he steals them from bad guys)
I need some more weap-ons, baby
(Looking like Timothee Chalomet)
Maybe?
(Just stepped out of an anime)
(Cuz white lies)
(Grow and change)
(Nose!)
An esoteric signal
Fates them to their plight
About a million puppets
Turned bad overnight
Might’ve beaten Bloodborne
Might’ve beaten Dark Souls
But in these boulevards, baby
There’s so many creepy dolls
So run through it!
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Rough!)
(Grow!)
(Ahh…)
Dire babies
(Ahh…)
Švankmajer babies
(Ahh…)
Švankmajer babies
(Ahh…)
You won’t ever sleep now!
(Freak shit!)
(Don’t forget to lie)
Don’t forget to lie, baby
(Turn human)
You really are human, my son
(Now we’re having some doubts)
My Gemini is griping
(Yeah chinny reck-on)
No, I’ve not played Sekiro
I feel I’m too invested
Put in too much time
I’ll be here
Three hours from now
Continuing to grind
Each phonograph I’ve sought
Awakens P’s ego
It’s hard as nails
I’m gonna fail
What’s happening to my nose?
(Rough!)
(Game!)
(Soulslike!)
(Game!)
Bastards try to wreck him
Stalkers try to test him
Jesters, knaves and jugglers
Are struggling to best him
The critics are divided
A seven’s how they’d write it
It’s no Dark Souls but meets its goals
It’s hard as hell, you’ll like it
So buy it!
(Freaks!)
Ah huh huh huh
(Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
(Freaks! Krat!)
Tags: bloodborne, dark souls, freaks, from software, jan svankmajer, karaoke, krat, lies of p, maraoke, melle mel, neowiz, pinocchio, round8 studio, sekiro, white lines
