I made a song based on the mythical post on Stack Overflow, a legendary piece of tech poetry. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex
Because HTML can't be parsed by regex
Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML
Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML
You will never make me crack
Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions
The unholy child weeps the blood of virgins
And Russian hackers pwn your webapp
Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living
HTML and regex go together like love
Marriage
And ritual infanticide
The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind
Like so much watery putty
If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them
And their blasphemous ways
Which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One
Whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane
He comes
It is too late
It is too late
The transgression of a chi͡ld ensures regex will consume all living tissue Except for HTML which it cannot As previously prophesied Dear lord help us
How can anyone survive this scourge Using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes
Using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt entities Like SGML entities But more corrupt A mere glimpse of the world of reg ex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmer's consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming
He comes He comes
He comes Do not fight
He com̡e̶s
HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡your eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liquid pain The song of re̸gular expression parsing will extinguish the voices of mortal man from the sphere
I can see it Can you see ̲͚̖͔̙î̩́t̲͎̩̱͔́̋̀
It is beautiful 
The final snuffing of the lies of Man
ALL IS LOŚ͖̩͇̗̪̏̈́T
ALL I S LOST
The pon̷y
He comes
He c̶̮omes
He comes
The ichor permeates all 
MY FACE 
MY FACE 
ᵒh god no 
The ang͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆l͖͉̗̩̳̟̍ͫͥͨe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́͒͑e not rè̑ͧ̌aͨl̘̝̙̃ͤ͂̾̆
ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱ TO͇̹̺ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚ N̐Y̡ 
H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ

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