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Ron Nasty wrote the song during a tea relapse

Reading a Newspaper About a New Dinosaur Discovered in the Rutland Area, Then Realising You're Tumbling Down Eight Flights of Stairs, Knocking You Unconscious and Then You Wake Up and Realise You're in Argentina (or RaNA aND Dit RAT RYT DEFo SKY UaT YWU a RYiA) is a 1994 song by Ron Nasty. As the title suggests, the song is about reading a newspaper about a new dinosaur discovered in the Rutland area, then realising you're tumbling down eight flights of stairs, knocking you unconscious and then you wake up and realise you're in Argentina. This makes absolutely no sense but this is often perceived to be intentional, as Nasty admitted to having been on a tea relapse at the time he wrote the song.

Nasty also later admitted that he wrote the song purely as his attempt to beat the world record of the longest song title in history, and succeeded in doing so. The title was so long, in fact, that it was only released on albums under the title "The Song With The Really Long Title" due to avoid having the full title take up the entirety of the back covers. It became one of Nasty's most famous solo songs purely as a result of its extremely long title. To this day, it remains the song with the longest title in history.

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