Reply To: Your song lyrics, etc.
Oooh, a musical? I vaguely view that as like, the pinnacle of success, to write a musical and have it produced. Ha, Oberlin. I have to go there sometime, or at least I should, because I applied to Oberlin College (arts and sciences, not the conservatory) but have yet to visit it. Haha, this musical sounds wonderful. I should totally come see it.
Yes, I'm the lame high school student who puts off studying for her chemistry final by writing a song about the atomic theory.
Democritus first had the idea of the atom.
Plato and Aristotle disagreed.
Newton, on the other hand, supported Democritus.
Dalton formed his four-part theory.
J.J. Thompson had a Cathode Ray Tube.
He discovered the ration of an electron's charge to mass:
One point seven six times ten to the eighth coulombs per gram.
He also made the plum pudding model, but that would come to pass.
Milikan then came and followed this up
With his famous oil drop experiment.
He determined the charge and the mass of an electron.
It was a rather celebratory event.
Henri Becquerel had photo paper
And, along with Marie and Pierre Curie,
Discovered radiation; Ernest Rutherford
Discovered the three types that there could be.
…and then I stopped, because my final was the next day and I really did have to study. And it was extremely irritating when none of the atomic theory stuff was on the final, because I totally remembered it all.
And then this was inspired by a girl who couldn't be on the English Superbowl team because, in her words, she was "devoting her life to robotics."
Cyborg girl
You gave your life up for robotics.
The humans all called you neurotic,
but they just didn't understand.
Cyborg girl
Your brother had to do this to you.
The scientists gathered and slew you.
They all were working hand in hand.
(chorus)
Half human, half machine – they called you a monster,
and you stared back with teary eyes.
Half human, half machine – they called you a monster.
It's not what you expected, and you've come to despise
the world.
…there's more, but eh. Oh, also, I just write lyrics when I'm bored or get an idea or something, and I generally have the rhythm a vague idea of the melody in my head, but I never actually write music for them, mainly because I'm lazy. And god forbid that they should actually be sung by me, because I definitely can't sing. Which is kind of a shame, because I'm all hardcore band geek, you'd think I'd be at least mediocre at, you know, other areas of music. But unfortunately not. And then this, which sort of came out of nowhere:
The night falls.
I know not why
the serpent calls,
but its calls belie
the hatred and the anger
behind its laziness and languor.
The stars stare.
I don't know how
the dark dares
to take a bow
and leave vulnerable its back
to be stabbed, to be attacked.
And then "Columbus Day from the Native American Perspective," inspired by, well, Columbus Day…:
We Native Americans were dismayed
to see the mess Columbus made.
What were we to do when Columbus came?
He is the one whom we must blame.
Columbus, Columbus!
You wrought so much destruction.
Columbus, Columbus!
You necessitated our reconstruction.
You gave us smallpox viruses concealed in blankets.
This is the thanks we get?
We gave you everything that you wanted,
But still you got us hunted.
Columbus, Columbus:
You killed us, Columbus.
…Whoa, sorry, that goes on forever. I'll stop now.