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Laboratory Rat (Official Music Video)

8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

Oingo Boingo meets the B52's anyone? Love it!

YouTube: In my teens I wrote and recorded songs and put them together into "albums", which were recorded on a crappy handheld cassette recorder, and for which exactly one copy existed of each. I made LP-sized covers with cardboard and felt pens. There are 7 of these. This song appeared on the album Maple Bars on the Rampage.

The song was actually a local indie radio hit back then, despite the no-fi recording quality. For this upgrade, I tried to channel the music I was into at that time.

Happy as a tree was I
We'd run around and eat our lettuce
Then a man who wore a tie
Gave us both a shot to try and get us sick
And now my wife has cancer
Ask that man "But why?" he'll answer

Well, you're a laboratory rat
You're stuck with being that
You're born to die of cancer
For the good of man
Survival doesn't do us anything
But cost us quite a lot of money
Ain't that kind of funny?
Oh, you think I'm mean?
Well I'm a HUMAN BEAN!
No, you can't have a magazine

I begged him on my tiny knees
To spare me please, from his disease
I ran his maze,
I solved it too,
But I guess there's nothing I can do
My wife already bit the dust
I guess if she did, then I must

Yes, now you've got it right, my friend
You'll stay there till the end
There's nothing you can do
It's cancer time for you
Now you won't like it
But tomorrow I get out my doctor toys
And prick you full of poison
Then your duty there
Is just eat nuts and berries
Till the moment that you die