[flight and electricity]
[Time: 3'08"]
[Lyrics: Andy Wagner]
[First performed October 25, 1996 -- show #1]
[Appears as track #1 on "Pastor of Muppets"]
[Tim: electric bass, Nevin: violin, Kort: bouzouki, Jamie: percussion, Andy: guitar, vocals, Thom: guitar, vocals]


Another of the original originals, this one chronicles the nature of science and discovery in the face of skepticism.
It had the distinction of being one of those "show-starter" songs with its catchy opening and two-guitar-bouzouki interplay.
As the mad scientists say, "Viva la moo ha ha!"


A microscopic pulse
You'd be so quick to brush off
May contain the answers
To a thousand questions often thought of
A miniuscule molecule
A vehicle
A follicle, a cuticle
It's all half-beautiful

Fall into the populist ideals
Creativity falls prey to the antagonist
You can't let tradition win out
It's not so bad being a mad scientist

Construction
Of a hypothesis
The id serves counterpoint
With a valid antithesis
Now who's more practical?
It's all so parallel
And yet asymmetrical
A dadaist carousel

Don't settle for closure
No one ever died from overexposure
Attest to your originality
Take out your brain and carve out its personality.


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