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Catagory: Poetry
Title: Never Gonna Give You Up
Performer: Rick Astley
Writer: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman
Label: RCA Records
Released: 27, July, 1987

--- NGGUP.txt ---
We're no strangers to love 
You know the rules and so do I 
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of 
You wouldn't get this from any other guy 
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling 
Gotta make you understand 
 
Never gonna give you up, 
Never gonna let you down 
Never gonna run around and desert you 
Never gonna make you cry, 
Never gonna say goodbye 
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you 
 
We've known each other for so long 
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it 
Inside we both know what's been going on 
We know the game and we're gonna play it 
And if you ask me how I'm feeling 
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
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Rickroll XML metadata (EMBII upload test)

Written to the chain on 17 Oct 2013, block 264,971.

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264,971
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About this artifact

Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley metadata + lyrics, in EMBII's CG/MG/FL base64-XML upload-test format

EMBII upload-test format: a <CG SZ="1156"> container wrapping base64-encoded <MG> metadata and a <FL NM="NGGUP.txt"> lyrics file (Never Gonna Give You Up). Complete in one AtomSea P2FKH tx (well-formed, ends </FL></CG>). The decode shows the readable metadata + lyrics; raw on-chain bytes are the XML+base64. No URLs/scripts in the content.

How it was stored

AtomSea and EMBII built a higher-level publishing system on top of fake-key-hash style storage. A top-level transaction acts like an index: it contains ordered transaction IDs, length markers, filenames, captions, and sometimes profile or signature metadata.

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