brambleshadow4 - Take Me Back to 2014

This song has a very special place in my heart. Around 2021 when I was considering giving up on pony music altogether, I stumbled into the live premiere of Vylet Pony's Antonymph. That song moved me deeply (as it did many of us), and it got me back into pony music. I wrote this entire song the day after, and submitted it to my first Dust Car race, #24 (themed after 2013-2015 brony community). The Dust Car community really launched me into the music scene, and I've been the most active I've ever been with the MLP community ever since.
Today it is time to release an improved version of that song. It's been 3,653 days, ten years, since I joined the fandom, and I'm looking forward to many more. The ride never ends!
Stock beach image/picture frames provided from freepik.com
EQD logos used were saved to my harddrive over many years in the fandom. No idea who the artists are.
The RDP style commission of my OC was by BlitzyPony, my twitter avatar by RedPallete
Pony animations by Green Screen Ponies
MLP clips taken from MLP: Friendship is Magic, and also a few from the G5 movie.
Not sure about the source/author of some of the other assets, sorry :(
Lyrics:
Back in 2014
my days were already numbered
Senior year of high school
Enjoying my last summer
My last year at nerd summer camp
Spending it with all my good friends
And over dinner two of them
Starting dropping pony names
Listening to them we thought
They had gone insane
Turns out that they were genuine
You can only guess what happened then
Take me back to 2014
To a time when I didn't know about
This little show called my little pony
Oh where did all this time go
Sneaking out under cover of night
Down stairs to watch my little pony
Better not let people find out
That I have became a brony
Oh yeah
With all ninety one episodes
Of pink cartoon horse wonder
A magic spell for five full weeks
I found myself under
And when I finally finished the show
To the pony fandom I could go
And there were PMVs and Love Fine tee's
And cancelled fourth anthology
And drawfriend art posts every day
And pony games that I can play
And episode analysis
And multi volume fan comics
And music made of every genre
And tons and tons of fandom drama
And though I wasn't there at the beginning
Crashing into it all was so thrilling
Take me back to 2014
To a time where I didn't know about
This blog called Equestria Daily
Where forever I will roam
I can't contain all the joy that I feel
And I know that I've gone insane
'Cause I can't stop thinking about the ponies
And they haunt me every day
And I'm still here now
It's been 3653 days
And people left,
And people came,
And people stayed
And I don't really like dwelling on the past too much, but back in 2014, BronyCon was still growing in attendance, the world hadn't been shut down for a year due to a pandemic and Obama was president
My little pony
You stole my heart
To my friends from these years
Till death do us part
In 2019 you came to an end
And if I'd a time machine
I'd do it all again
Take me back to 2014
To a time where I didn't know about
This blog called equestria daily
Where forever I will roam
Take me back to 2014
To a time where I didn't know about
This little show called my little pony
Oh where did all this time go
Take me back to 2014
To a time where I didn't know about
This little show called my little pony
Oh where did all this time go