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LYRICS:
You hoped it would stay
A fairly common play
Your motions were fine
White was the line
Be judge for a day
The world could spin away
In advance we shine
Through light and lie

You fed every god
You paid for every soul
You made it through time
Missed every sign
It just took a leg
To move the other one
No jury in line
No wind, no sound

I'm off
I'm switching to complete
I'm falling to my knees
How harder could it get
The sun is rising
I'm asleep
The wind blows through the waves
Come scratching on the graves
You bled
Until it all flew out
I watched it through the panes
Felt severed and unchained
The noise
Kept growing on the shore
Kept swallowing the core
For no one and for more

The secret song that requires ten hearts to get. Such a pain, but wholly worth it in my opinion. Waves From Nothing takes the form of a stereotypical shooter boss, but instead of being a generic track it uses the trope to elevate what separates it [the game] from other conventional shooters. For instance, the fact that the bullets are generated to lyrics as opposed to synth instruments; or the way it combines all ten hearts into the song by having them be homing bullets; or the way it spins around at 1:54, all the while not distracting from its focus. For all these reasons, soundodger stands clearly in my mind as the mark of something that is both hugely creative and refined, and they are all perfectly exemplified in this song.

Guide: Not much to say, just stay away from the circles as much as possible. It's also worth noting that the blue waves of bullets are randomly generated such that they have small subtleties. Also, don't do what I did from like 2:09 on. It's much easier just to "jump" the walls on the left and right sides so that it doesn't become so claustrophobic [see wcko87's video for that]. I just wanted to show it could be done.

Buy Waves From Nothing on Bandcamp: http://dwightmusic.bandcamp.com/track/waves-from-nothing