Fastest Hedgehog Alive

Lyrics

[Intro]
Forget walking.

[Verse 1]
They kept me in a sketchbook.
Naoto Ohshima's pencil turning rabbit into needle.
Mr. Needlemouse.
A joke with sharp edges.
They built a world of careful blocks for a plumber to climb.
One... step... at... a... time.
Yuji Naka saw the code differently.
Not a staircase.
A ramp pointed at the sky.

[Chorus]
This is momentum.
This is the blur at the edge of your eye.
This is the sound of the future leaving you behind.
Green Hill Zone gone in a heartbeat.
Blue streak, white gloves.
I don't break the bricks, I smash right through them.
You can have your little castles.

[Verse 2]
The click of the D-pad, not a tap, but a hold.
Pushed forward until the plastic strains.
Hirokazu Yasuhara built the loops, the corkscrews.
Not a path, an accusation against gravity.
June 23, 1991.
The day the world started spinning faster.
Just to keep up.

[Chorus]
This is momentum.
This is the blur at the edge of your eye.
This is the sound of the future leaving you behind.
Green Hill Zone gone in a heartbeat.
Blue streak, white gloves.
I don't break the bricks, I smash right through them.
You can have your little castles.

[Bridge]
You count your coins one by one.
I spill mine everywhere.
And just run faster to get them back.
There is no top of the flagpole.
There's only the horizon.
And me, getting there first.

[Outro]
Blast processing.
Attitude.
Speed.
Gone.