"We Are The Gothic Archies" is the fifteenth track and second bonus track on The Tragic Treasury. It is the only song on the album not intentionally or directly linked to a book from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Lyrics[]
- We are The Gothic Archies (Archies)
- Death, Tentacles and Pip
- Be sure to buy a record
- And don't forget to tip
- The Gothic Archies are we
- With whom you should not mess
- The apogee and zenith
- Of gothicarchieness
- We are The Gothic Archies (Archies)
- Death, Tentacles and Pip
- Be sure to buy a T-shirt
- And then you will be hip
- Are The Gothic Archies we?
- Oh, are we ever they
- In fact, it is a mystery
- How anyone could say
- We're not The Gothic Archies (Archies)
- Pip, Tentacles, and Death
- We love to kill such people
- By squeezing out their breath
- Are we The Gothic Archies?
- Be careful what you say
- (You are The Gothic Archies)
- (Ta-ra-raboom-de-ray)
- Oh, the archiesway othicgay ethay
- Areway eway;
- Illiantbray yricistslay
- An'tcay ouyay eesay?
- Though gothic we are Archie (Archie)
- Though archie we are goth
- No satan-worshippers we
- We worship Yog-Sothoth
- ,eihcra era ew cithog ohT
- (eihcra) htog era ew eihcra oht
- Ew sreppihsrow-natas oN
- !htohtoS-goY pihsrow eW
Trivia[]
- The song appears to tell a short narrative of the Gothic Archies introducing themselves, but the introductions getting more and more sinister and threatening until they reveal they intend to murder anyone who doubts their identity and are worshippers of Yog-Sothoth.
- The apogee and zenith
Of gothicarchieness- Apogee and zenith are synonyms meaning "the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination." The band are saying that no one else is more like the Gothic archies than them.[1]
- The seventh verse is written in Pig Latin. It reads:
- Oh, the Archies Gothic the
Are we;
Brilliant Lyricists
Can't you see?
- Oh, the Archies Gothic the
- No satan-worshippers we
We worship Yog-Sothoth- Yog-Sothoth is a diety featuring in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft; he is one of the "Old Ones", an all-knowing god locked outside of our universe that cannot be learned too much about without disastrous consequences. It is also noted as the parent of Cthulhu. It is mentioned in two Lovecraft stories of note- "The Dunwich Horror," in which it impregnantes a mortal woman who gives birth two monstrous twins, and his final story, "The Haunter of the Dark," in which it is called upon to save protagonist Robert Blake.
- In the line where the Gothic Archies (or the murderous beings that replaced them) say they do not worship the devil but instead worship Yog-Sothoth, they are saying that they draw power not from demons but from the much more dangerous and destructive Old Ones, which can definitely be read as a threat.
- The final verse is a repeat of the previous verse, only backwards.
Gallery[]
We Are the Gothic Archies
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