Sweet On Me, and other Good Omens songs

I've got a couple of Good Omens songs that I've written but I haven't finished yet, so I'm going to try to get them done this year, since I want to work on completely new things in 2020. No promises, and I'm not sure I can do it since this semester in college appears to be really, really busy, but I'll try my best.  

Here's the full list of them, but some of the songs have already been finished:

1) half of heaven (raised me saved)

2) An Angel Fell

3) Sweet On Me

4) Our World

5) Hey Mama

6) Take It Slow

7) Strawman War

8) This is Love

9) A Brief History of Human Fragility (request)

Anyway, I wanna talk about one of the most fun (and also frustrating) songs I worked on, Sweet On Me.

I love, love, love the idea of Ineffable Bureaucracy. From the first moment I saw them at the air base and how they seemed to just smoothly play off of each other, I thought - huh, they'd make a good pair. I'm also a sucker for a good rivals to friends (and then maybe lovers, but for this pair, I'm fine with either), so I thought it would be fun to make a song that's about two people who hate each other, but also they're the only people they've found who can understand and work well with them, and maybe, find a friend in them.

The song is deliberately styled to be similar to something you'd find as a showtune, so it's a little different from half of heaven (raise me saved) and An Angel Fell, which were both written to be about Good Omens but could be understood outside its context.

The first draft of the song was way longer, but I cut it down because I noticed it would be too long. This is the section that got cut out:

BEELZEBUB

I completely loathe you
There's nothing more I would love than breaking your teeth in
I'd gladly smite you
It would be a bless - curse - GIFT to the Earth's children

I'm very logical
Practical and tactical
I can tear your throat out without even trying
But I don't even need to pretend
You incense me to no end
Make me dread what you've been up to this time

Don't try to win me over
Stay back on your side of the line

GABRIEL (spoken)

How dare you

BEELZEBUB (spoken)

Easily

GABRIEL (spoken)

This is just slander

BEELZEBUB (spoken)

(fake gasp) Is it?!

GABRIEL

(spoken) Clearly, you're just out to get me and - ugh

(sung) I completely loathe you
No question about it, you're the worst thing I have met
I'd gladly fight you -  

BEELZEBUB (spoken)

(laughter)
Is that the best you have?

GABRIEL (spoken)

Don't interrupt me!

BEELZEBUB (spoken)

Well, clearly, there's nothing worth listening to.

GABRIEL

I have patience perfected
Rather calm and collected
I've got the virtues up polished and primed
But if I said you don't get me irked
Constantly get on my nerves
If I said I was fine, then I'd be lying

Don't try to win me over
Stay back on your side of the line

This part continues the very same argument that their earlier individual parts had anyway, so it does nothing for the song, aside from the spoken parts to really give that showtune feel.

I tried my best to capture how I think Beelzebub and Gabriel would both speak to each other, which is that they're incredibly pretentious, hence the overuse of big words and would probably continuously enforce the whole 'we are heriditary enemies' even more than Aziraphale and Crowley do (and Aziraphale and Crowley only do it as a reminder to each other and themselves to keep their distance, as opposed to IB's 'we are hereditary enemies, foul rat, get out of my sight).  

Gabriel's part was so fun to write, particularly because it comes off as incredibly conceited and self-praising, but can also be taken as Gabriel just listing off qualities he believes to be present in himself. He finds nothing with listing them off, because they're real, and they're just the truth, similar to how he listens to Aziraphale's reports, but in the end he's always like, "What are you talking about? In the end, you will fail, because this is what is supposed to happen." Along with that, he's listing them out, because he doesn't understand how he can be these things and still get really mad when Beelzebub opens their mouth. He does understand that they agree on a lot of things and that Beelzebub has the same approach of things as he does (like how quickly they are on the same wavelength at the air base) and so he warns them not to go sweet on him.

Beelzebub's part is mostly just them saying I've dealt with Hell, but you are much, much worse. Less self-appraisal, more disbelief and bafflement at how Gabriel can be even more infuriating than their daily life, and more on taking jabs at Gabriel's self-righteousness.  

The second to the last chorus does have one line changed from the original draft that I feel like changes the whole tone of the song, so I rewrote it, and it's this:

I don't know what I did to be
Given this cursed certainty
That if I were to try and know you I'd just see
You're the best friend I need

It completely goes from 'I tolerate you but I know that at the end of the day, you're the only one I can ever really talk with about things, and you're kinda like a friend to me' to 'I haven't found anyone who gets me like you do and I've been looking for so long, and you're here, and you're the one' - which felt like it didn't fit, because I think Gabriel and Beelzebub are very fine with where they're standing, save maybe for whatever bitterness is there remaining from when the demons originally defected, so I thought it would make more sense if they just barely accepted that the other is like a friend to them rather than deliberately trying to look for a friend.  

I am planning on re-recording everything to put them on Spotify, but since I don't know anyone to do a duet with for this, I'm not sure if I'm going to put the re-recorded version of this along with hoh and AAF, but I do want to remake it and put it there, and maybe record an extended version with the spoken parts and the cut-out verse. Not sure yet, but we'll see.