WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.870 --> 00:00:06.440 >>Waltz: No...no...nonono! 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:15.599 It’s wrong...it’s all wrong... 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:36.090 >>Waltz: [Defeated sigh] I just...can’t get it right....useless...useless... 00:00:36.090 --> 00:00:44.559 >>Waltz: Why can’t I get it.... 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:48.690 >>Servant Hello Master Waltz, can I get you anything? 00:00:48.690 --> 00:00:52.079 >>Waltz: Can you bring the music back? 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:53.079 >>Servant: ....Excuse me? 00:00:53.079 --> 00:01:03.199 >>Waltz: Can you bring it back?....The music...it is as though it has left me. 00:01:03.199 --> 00:01:11.430 If you cannot then be gone...without such things I am not worthy to serve, Pennyworth. 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:13.210 >>Servant: Master Waltz I- 00:01:13.210 --> 00:01:14.650 >>Waltz: Go! 00:01:14.650 --> 00:01:20.250 >>Servant: A-alright Master Waltz....Have a good night. 00:01:20.250 --> 00:01:26.020 >>Waltz: To you as well...I’m...sorry for snapping. 00:01:26.020 --> 00:01:31.990 >>Servant: ...You are forgiven...are you feeling quite alright? 00:01:31.990 --> 00:01:34.610 >>Waltz: I am. 00:01:34.610 --> 00:01:38.120 Now please, Pennyworth...just go. 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.490 >>Servant: At your leave sir. 00:01:42.490 --> 00:01:59.000 >>Waltz:If I cannot play...then what am I?....if I am bereft of music than I am like...a sheet 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:10.119 with no notes....a cello with no keys...a flute with no reed...what am I to do? 00:02:10.119 --> 00:02:19.480 >>Waltz: Perhaps my talent is a lie...what if this mark on my flank is some joke...the 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:25.630 pony who loves to compose...but cannot do so. 00:02:25.630 --> 00:02:31.569 There is no other word for such a thing...than joke... 00:02:31.569 --> 00:02:44.600 >>Waltz: Perhaps it is that...that I am better a joke than a failure...who should want to 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:52.260 hear my music in anycase...it tis the work of an earthpony who could no more play than 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:54.189 a pig could fly. 00:02:54.189 --> 00:03:01.219 >>Waltz: Tis better I shun the work that I do, to hide away....If I cannot create a simple 00:03:01.219 --> 00:03:06.730 piece...then who would want to suffer my company? 00:03:06.730 --> 00:03:10.819 >>Waltz: Did I not tell you to leave me!? 00:03:10.819 --> 00:03:15.250 >>Ballroom: If I am not mistaken, you haven’t even told me hello yet. 00:03:15.250 --> 00:03:17.720 >>Waltz: ...Oh, Ballroom. 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:25.439 I am sorry...I was not expecting you at such a late hour. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.500 I’m afraid you have caught me in what is not the best of moods. 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:32.489 >>Ballroom: So I have been told. 00:03:32.489 --> 00:03:38.939 >>Waltz: Told?...Told b-...[Realization] Pennyworth....I shall have him fir- 00:03:38.939 --> 00:03:42.260 >>Ballroom: I would not be so hasty in action Waltz. 00:03:42.260 --> 00:03:46.749 It is rare to find such good help, I would not squander it. 00:03:46.749 --> 00:03:48.680 He tells me you are distraught. 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:54.430 >>Waltz: I have decided that I no longer want to play, Ballroom. 00:03:54.430 --> 00:03:57.620 >>Ballroom: Ah...I see. 00:03:57.620 --> 00:04:00.079 Well, that is most interesting. 00:04:00.079 --> 00:04:03.480 >>Waltz: You are too generous. 00:04:03.480 --> 00:04:06.019 It is a cautionary tale at most. 00:04:06.019 --> 00:04:14.209 One of a foolish pony who thought he could make music for all to enjoy, only to find 00:04:14.209 --> 00:04:16.329 it was not his talent. 00:04:16.329 --> 00:04:18.310 >>Ballroom: And that’s even more interesting. 00:04:18.310 --> 00:04:20.310 >>Waltz: Are you mocking me? 00:04:20.310 --> 00:04:22.370 >>Ballroom: Not at all. 00:04:22.370 --> 00:04:24.611 The thought just puts me in an interesting memory. 00:04:24.611 --> 00:04:27.729 >>Waltz: What memory is that? 00:04:27.729 --> 00:04:32.889 >>Ballroom: The memory of a little colt from a long time ago who wanted to make music. 00:04:32.889 --> 00:04:35.860 Looked a lot like you actually. 00:04:35.860 --> 00:04:43.120 He was an earth pony, like you, quite unusual in music actually. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.580 Funniest thing, I just couldn’t stop him from singing and tapping his hooves on every 00:04:48.580 --> 00:04:50.310 instrument in sight. 00:04:50.310 --> 00:04:57.949 >>Waltz: And does this memory end with a broken pony at the end of his rope? 00:04:57.949 --> 00:05:01.050 >>Ballroom: Why...no, I don’t think it does. 00:05:01.050 --> 00:05:02.610 Do you? 00:05:02.610 --> 00:05:07.599 >>Waltz: I think that the pony you remember is a part of the past. 00:05:07.599 --> 00:05:15.190 I am simply a broken string of a piano, a sour note that cannot be mended. 00:05:15.190 --> 00:05:17.259 Ballroom: Do you know what I think? 00:05:17.259 --> 00:05:18.259 Waltz: What? 00:05:18.259 --> 00:05:23.599 Ballroom: I think I still remember that little colt who, after bashing his hooves on every 00:05:23.599 --> 00:05:27.479 instrument in the room, found a piano. 00:05:27.479 --> 00:05:31.960 It was an old dusty thing of course, terribly out of tune. 00:05:31.960 --> 00:05:33.729 Waltz: Was it? 00:05:33.729 --> 00:05:35.810 Ballroom: Indeed it was. 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:38.020 From what I remember. 00:05:38.020 --> 00:05:41.520 He played it anyway, and do you know what? 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:44.630 It sounded absolutely lovely. 00:05:44.630 --> 00:05:48.030 Waltz: You’re being charitable. 00:05:48.030 --> 00:05:49.740 Ballroom: Perhaps. 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:51.949 But he certainly thought so. 00:05:51.949 --> 00:05:57.680 Because he kept playing, even when he got frustrated, or messed up, was teased, or mocked, 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.830 and I remember something else too. 00:05:59.830 --> 00:06:01.370 Waltz: What is that? 00:06:01.370 --> 00:06:04.830 Ballroom: I remember another little colt in the room who danced. 00:06:04.830 --> 00:06:09.419 He didn’t think he was any good at all, until another little colt told him that they 00:06:09.419 --> 00:06:10.979 would be a team. 00:06:10.979 --> 00:06:15.449 The colt would play, and he would dance, and every time the other little colt felt bad, 00:06:15.449 --> 00:06:20.680 or thought he couldn’t do something, his friend would tell him different, tell him 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:21.680 the truth. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:27.530 That truth being that, no matter how many sour notes you hit, or how many wrong steps 00:06:27.530 --> 00:06:33.970 you take, there’s a song for every note, and a dance for every step. 00:06:33.970 --> 00:06:36.860 Do you remember that? 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:41.780 Waltz: I do...Do you happen to remember the names of those colts? 00:06:41.780 --> 00:06:48.099 Ballroom: Why I’m sorry to say I’ve forgotten, must not be important. 00:06:48.099 --> 00:06:53.600 But I do know that one little colt, showed the other a thing or two about piano. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.710 How about we see if he still remembers it. 00:06:57.710 --> 00:06:59.870 Waltz: Alright... 00:06:59.870 --> 00:07:04.199 Alright, let’s do it. 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:05.280 Ballroom:Lets. 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:09.800 Pennyworth: Thank you for bringing him, you normally don’t come for little things like 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:27.479 this I know...but this world would be a much darker place without the music of Cloppan 00:07:27.479 --> 00:07:29.229 Waltz. 00:07:29.229 --> 00:07:33.479 Doctor: Glad to be of assistance. 00:07:33.479 --> 00:07:37.000 In, One, Two, Three Cloppin Waltz was played by Neil Waycaster 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.810 Ballroom was played by Sonicsuns Pennyworth was played by Hamish 00:07:41.810 --> 00:07:47.780 Written and edited by Squeak For, Coconeru, we believe in you mate, love 00:07:47.780 --> 00:07:50.220 Ponyinabox and Happy Birthday.