Eighth Wonder - Revision history

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	[[Eighth Wonder (2009 Version)]]		* [[Eighth Wonder (2009 Version)]]

	== Live Performances ==		== Live Performances ==

Pretzelman227 at 01:04, 16 April 2026

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	'''Eighth Wonder''' is the seventh track on [[Spirit Phone]]. ~~It is about the [[wikipedia:Gef\|legend of Gef, the talking mongoose.]]~~		'''Eighth Wonder''' is the seventh track on [[Spirit Phone]].
			{{Infobox_song
	~~A slightly different version of this song was originally released on [[Almanac 2009]], then as a single on [[Neil]]'s YouTube channel alongside a music video on November 18th, 2009.~~{{Infobox_song
	\|title = Eighth Wonder		\|title = Eighth Wonder
	\|artist = Lemon Demon		\|artist = Lemon Demon
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	\|BPM = 140		\|BPM = 140
	}}		}}
			==Description==
			The track is about the [[wikipedia:Gef\|legend of Gef, the talking mongoose.]] It features paranormal sightings from a young child about a talking mongoose that lives in their walls. [[Neil]] went in-depth about the story of the song on [[Spirit Phone: Commentary\|the album's commentary track]]: <blockquote> "But most of the lyrics come from quotes from this old ghost story (or poltergeist maybe? or just a talking animal). It was reported by a young girl and her family on the Isle of Man in I think the 1930s, so look up Gef the Mongoose. G-E-F. This story stuck out to me because he is so childish, and quotable, and talkative for a ghost. He’s cracking jokes, and he’s insulting people, and making outlandish claims… but he’s totally hidden and nobody can really see him. They catch glimpses of a mongoose sometimes, but they don’t really see this talking character. And if you read some of the original reporting on him he has such a memorable presence without ever coming out into the open, he’s just a voice in the wall."</blockquote>

			==History==
			A slightly different version of this song was originally released on [[Almanac 2009]], then as a single on [[Neil]]'s YouTube channel alongside a music video on November 18th, 2009. [[Neil]] speaks about the song's creation on [[Spirit Phone: Commentary\|Spirit Phone's commentary track]]: <blockquote> "I remember recording this in the basement of my family’s house, and it was probably one of the last songs I made there before I moved to the city. And I shot the music video in my family’s yard, in the woods that I grew up near, and this old shack that’s on our property line… so this song has a real “end of an era” feel to me. I think I made this song around the same time as Redesign Your Logo, and they’re both the start of a lot of samples and sounds that I continue to use up until today, really."</blockquote>

			When the song was first released along with its music video, it ended with a fiddle solo. This solo was present until [[Neil]] reworked the instrumentals of all of the tracks on the album c. 2015. It is still present on the 2014 version of the track.<ref>https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Spirit%20Phone/Spirit%20Phone%20-%202014%20Cut/06%20Eighth%20Wonder.mp3</ref>

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==
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	* Eighth Wonder ~~for [[Almanac~~ 2009]]		[[Eighth Wonder (2009 Version)]]

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	* This song's lyrics inspired the Fifth Dimension and Split Atom color variants of the [[Needlejuice Records]] vinyl release of [[Spirit Phone]], first released in 2021 and 2022 respectively.		* This song's lyrics inspired the Fifth Dimension and Split Atom color variants of the [[Needlejuice Records]] vinyl release of [[Spirit Phone]], first released in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
			* This song, along with [[Redesign Your Logo]], was one of the first two [[Spirit Phone]] tracks released to the public.

Callowrat at 03:47, 8 July 2025

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   You'll never get to see
   What in the name of God can I be?
 == Alternate Versions ==

Dashw321 at 17:53, 5 August 2023

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Show changes

Bob: Added an info box. I’m just trying to add some detail to some pages.

2023-08-01T18:20:26Z

Added an info box. I’m just trying to add some detail to some pages.

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			{{Infobox_song
			\|title = Eighth Wonder
			\|artist = Lemon Demon
			\|albumart = Spirit Phone.jpg
			\|writer = Neil Cicierega
			\|singer =[[Neil Cicierega]]
			\|album = [[Spirit Phone]]
			\|duration = 4:42
			\|genre = Rock
			\|language = English
			\|externalLinks = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQ-ZFSQic Video]
			\|BPM = 140
			}}

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==
	Extra clever		Extra clever

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Added lyrics. If anyone wants to add an info box, that’s fine, but for now, I’m just adding lyrics.

New page

==Lyrics==
Extra clever

Earthbound spirit

Ghost in the form of a mongoose

And I have hands

And I have feet

I’ll never die

I am a freak

Hello

I’m here

I’m living in the wall

I know

I might be small but I

I

I am a freak

Thou wilt never know what I am

I am the fifth dimension

And I’ll split the atom

If you see me

You’re paralyzed

Pillar of salt

You’re mummified

Hello

I’m here

I’m living in the wall

I know

I might be small but I

I

I am the eighth wonder

And I was born

1852

And I was born

In India

And I shall haunt

Like the Buggane

With such weird noise

And clanking chains

Hello

I’m here

I’m living in the wall

I know

I might be small but

I

I

I am a freak

I say “vanished”

To underground

Jim, let me go

I watch like hell

And I have hands

And I have feet

I’ll never die

I am a freak

Hello

I’m here

I’m living in the wall

I know

I might be small but I

I

I am the eighth wonder

Eighth wonder of the world

You'll never get to see

What in the name of God can I be?