Minor spoilers for StarCraft 2 abound!
When you clear the campaign for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, you are treated to a great song called “Terran Up the Night,” written and performed by Blizzard’s own Elite Tauren Chieftains. You might have heard this song live at past Blizzard events. To me, it really shines as one of their most well-performed songs. For a bunch of designers and engineers, they aren’t half bad.
If you don’t want to wait to beat the game, type “overengineeredcodpiece” during the campaign when you can see the jukebox and you’ll have the option to play the song. I’ve been looking for an mp3 to no avail. Thankfully, enigmayshi made an awesome music video using StarCraft 2 cutscenes and cinematics.
Lyrics after the break.
Terran up the Night Lyrics
The smell of rusty metal, dead zerg and napalm,
The sound of friggin’ laser beams and Gatling guns.
Strapped into powered armor,
Got the ladies always looking at me,
They can’t believe the size of my over-engineered codpiece.Well, I’m a convict
In a siege tank I ride
Not protossin’, not zergin’,
No, I’m terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night! Alright!Don’t want no shiny protoss flying machines
Rather have a clunky, funky, rusty SCV.
Strap yourselves in girls,
We’re gonna soar across the stars
‘Cause when you’ve got a battlecruiser,
Hell, who needs a car?Well, I’m a convict
In a siege tank I ride
Not protossin’, not zergin’,
No, I’m terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night! That’s Right!
[Hell yeah]You come in peace, well I come in war
I’m counting corpses, I ain’t counting score
When the protoss charge and the zerg start to swarm,
Don’t want no Zeus, I want my own Thor!We’ve got our own transformer,
The rough and tough Viking.
He can fly, and doesn’t cry like that little girl Starscream
Never served the King, no
Never served the Lord
But if we lived in Azeroth, honey
You know we’d join the Horde! Yeah!Well, I’m a convict
In a siege tank I ride
Not protossin’, not zergin’,
No, I’m terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night! That’s rightTerran up the night!
Terran up the night!
Terran up the night! All night
YEAH SC2 rocks