“I refuse to rot like my contemporaries
I want to explode in a karaoke supernova
I don't wanna grow old
Won't you let me, won't you let me explode?”

— Ben Folds

"Hiro's Song", Songs for Goldfish (2005).
Song lyrics, Solo

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