Song: Elements of Harmony

If you've been following "The Pony Who Lived Upstairs", I appreciate it! It's true that I haven't posted any chapters in a while, but I'm definitely still working on it. I've hardly got any of Chapter 8 written now, though, and I suspect it'll be a large one! So, to tide you over, how about a song?

If you read the second appendix to my Combinatorics Project (Pinkie Pie's Travelogue), which is practically a stand-alone story on its own, you'll have seen the new lyrics I wrote for the end theme of Portal 2. Well, before I wrote that, I wrote a pony song to the original Portal's end theme. It was one of two songs I composed mostly on a trip to my sister's wedding in California. I later changed the third verse to avoid the banality of a flatulence joke, in order to make a friend of a friend more likely to sing it in a video. Sadly, that hasn't happened yet, but the song is better for it.

"Elements of Harmony"
(To "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton")

DEAR Princess Celestia:
I'm writing a note of my success.
I've identified the elements of friendship!
Friendship is Magic!
It's also a bunch of other stuff.
But once you hit the magic,
Science kind of curls up and dies. :-(

So I moved to Ponyville to try a new tack
With a baby dragon who could pick up my slack
And I'm happy to report
That we've managed now to sort
Out the Elements of Harmony!

Let's start out with kindness!
You can go crazy being kind.
Everyone has their own needs to deal with!
Take my friend Rainbow:
Her ego needs stroking twice a day.
More refined is Rarity;
She needs it pampered instead.

Then there's generosity, which means that you give
Everything you've got until you feel like a sieve
All that's left 'til it's returned
Is a feeling you've been burned
By the Elements of Harmony!

And then you have laughter.
That's oddly psychotic, don't you think?
How can we decide which friend to laugh at?
Just watch who's not laughing!
Whoever laughs last gets laughed at most!

Fluttershy would blush, but then
We all could laugh at her too.

Then there's good old honesty, which means you don't lie
Like the cake I said that I would give Pinkie Pie.
Or that Applejack could rest
After forty-seven tests
Of the Elements of Harmony!

And then the final one is loyalty!
Like how you love all your friends equally!
Or how you still enjoy watching G3!
So there they are in their entirety:
These are the Elements of Harmony!
Harmony!

Signed, me.
(spoken) Your faithful student, TWiLiGHT SPaRKLe.
(pretend to roll up a scroll and raise it before your mouth, blowing it into flame)