Science Fair Lyrics

We’ve had a number of requests to post the lyrics to the songs from Science Fair, and I’m pleased to do so for many of the songs:

1.  Babe the Blue OX – Surfin’ Minnesota

Two little bugs
Sitting on a rug
Talking ’bout the weather
And one wondered with a shrug,
“Do you think it’s here?
Do you think it’s time?
To move out of the city
To a kinder gentler clime?”

The sky won’t fall down
‘Cause I’m in a band
The sky won’t fall down

“Oh my little dear
Oh my little one
Is that all that you’re scared of
Just an overly-thirsty sun?
We’ll just surf Minnesota!
Sunbathe Ontario!
We’ll winter in Alaska
Now let’s go, go, go, go!”

The sky won’t fall down
‘Cause I’m in a band
The sky won’t fall down

Drip
Drop

2. Moona Luna – H2O

Oh, I’d rather have the sun come out.
Oh, than for the rain to pour down.
Oh, I’d rather have the sun come out.
Oh, than for the rain to pour down.
I know it’s inevitable and also necessary.
The plants and the animals, they need water to live and so do we.
H20.

O, prefiero cuando brilla el sol.
O, en vez de cuando llueve.
O, prefiero cuando brilla el sol.
O, en vez de cuando llueve.
Yo se que es inevitable y tambien necesario.
Las plantas y los animales necesitan agua como nosotros.
H20.

3.  Deedle Deedle Dees & IMPACT Repertory Theatre – Time Machine

4.  Frances England – Goldilocks Zone

Late at night, underneath the moonlight
Staring up at the stars
I’m wondering if somewhere in the universe
there could be a planet like ours

Oh, we may have friends far from home
Waiting for us in the Goldilocks Zone

Not too hot, not too cold
In the middle, just right
Could this star be your sun?
Could you be there,
I’ll be looking for you every night
You keep me on my toes

Oh, we may have friends far from home
Waiting for us in the Goldilocks Zone

Not too hot, not too cold
In the middle, just right
Not too hot, not too cold
the Goldilocks Zone

5.  Nields – Butterfly

6.  Laura Veirs – Little Black Rock

standing in a forest all covered in snow
i got a few match sticks and a lump of coal
20 below but i’ll be ok
my little black rock gonna light the way

CHORUS:
my little black rock
trapped the sun for a million years
my little black rock
melt my heart when your flames come near

working up sun strength in their leaves
i thank those giant horsetail trees
my lips are blue but not for long
my little black rock is burning strong

CHORUS

inst V and Ch

twenty five miles til i reach the shore
my little black rock may be no more
catch a southbound ship if we’re not iced in
or we’ll wait it out eatin’ fish from a tin

CHORUS extended

7.  Elizabeth Mitchell – Phytoplankton (written by Molly Ledford)

8.  Mates of State – I Am A Scientist (written by Robert Pollard)

9.  Wunmi – Rainbow

10.  Cat & a Bird – Constellation Bound

on the bus to the rocket site
rocket is ready to go
captain’s orders: “seat belts on!
Countdown started. Let’s go!”

CHORUS:
ramping up speed going thru the clouds
booster engines off, boy, were they loud
the sky’s getting darker and colder around
we are in the spaceship constellation bound

there’s a Russian satellite
and a French and a German one too
but we’ll pass them in a blink of an eye
they won’t be spoiling our view

of they space!
dark empty space.
dark empty space.
but empty it’s NOT!
constellations left and right
there’s so many, who would’ve thought!?

CHORUS:
Leo, Pisces, Taurus and Puppis
Corvus, Crater, Cygnus and Libra
Draco, Aquarius, Pegasus and Ara
Scorpius, Norma, Delphinus, Hydra

Big Deeper is winking at me
and Leo is the king of the sky
Lyra is hiding, Orion’s exciting
and Libra’s perpetually shy

Setting the course to Centarus
I’m sure we’ll get to it soon
it’s the nearest one to the Earth
we will slingshot ’round the Moon

CHORUS:
ramping up speed going thru asteroid belt
ion engines on, I hope they don’t melt
the sky’s getting darker and colder around
we are in the spaceship constellation bound

Leo, Pisces, Taurus and Puppis
Corvus, Crater, Cygnus and Libra
Draco, Aquarius, Pegasus and Ara
Scorpius, Norma, Delphinus, Hydra

11. Lunch Money – To Be a Fossil

To be a fossil
a million years from now
and make you say, “Holy cow!”
Though you probably won’t say “holy cow” a million years from now

to be discovered
like all those ammonites
and maybe shed a little light
on a history you’re trying to rewrite

I promise not to be too sneaky
come and find me, Mary Leakey
i’m a little piece you’re seeking
Tell a story with my bones

Follow your gut
with a sieve and a wire brush
the holocene epoch
awaits you in all of this sedimentary rock

love to know how
the earth has come along
is the sun going strong?
do you live here or is this cosmic gallivant?

crackles in the fossil record
ancient insects caught in amber
I can help the world remember
tell a story with my bones

[ETHEREAL PAUSE]

the movement of the continents
the changes in the climate
the species that would fade
an evolution onward
of the ones that were stalwart
and all the things they made

[DREAMY, LAYERED OUTRO]

to be a fossil
a million years from now………………to be a fossil [REPEAT TO DESIRED EFFECT]

LISTING UNDERNEATH END:

bicycles and blue trombones
silver spoons and styrofoam
astroturf and boards for surf
bottle caps, rotary phones

scaffolding and bed springs
steering wheels, vending machines
roller skates and license plates
automatons who could do drawings

rubicks cubes and leisure suits
radios and tennis shoes
ginzu knives and MRIs
and metal boxes full of screws

nickels, pennies, subway tokens
pots and pans, stars for throwin’
picture frames and daisy chains and
necklaces with hearts that open

12. MC Fireworks (with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo) – Rocket Science

13. Renee & Jeremy – (I Wanna Be Like) Madame Curie

my friends think it’s boring
when I wanna go exploring the particles
and elements the building blocks of life

but give me a microscope
and 2 ounces of hope
and we just might make
science history

chorus
I wanna be like madame curie
when I grow up
explore the world that’s always twirling
and other stuff

I’d build my own laboratory
then maybe people would sing my story
just like madame curie

she was a professor the first woman
ever in paris at the university

it’s not easy to discover what madame had uncovered
polonium and radium -that others could not see

so she took her microscope
and 2 ounces of hope
and found the theory of radioactivity

bridge
time with tell- if all goes well
wouldn’t it be swell to win a nobel (or 2)

14. Rachel Loshak – Oh Girl

Every morning I wake up and open my eyes
I see as if for the first time the light in the sky
I measure the daffodils, measure the snow
Looking around for more things I can know

Oh girl, you can be whatever you want to be
Don’t stop, step out, there’s a whole world to see
Look from the rooftop, o’er the garden
To the mountains and plains
There’s a world there if you want it
For you just the same

I ponder on the future, I picture a birth
Knowing that I’ll be a woman, walking the earth
Just like my mother, just like a queen
Like a princess or pauper and all in-between

Chorus

In the evening I lay down and closing my eyes
I feel as if for the first time I’ve discovered the skies
I measured the daffodils, measured the snow
I can’t wait to wake up, to uncover the new things to know

Chorus

15. Alison Faith Levy & Rudy Trubitt – Deja Vu

Ever feel like everything that’s happened
has happened the same way previously
and you’re caught up in a time warp
and you blink your eyes kinda nervously

you said the same thing in the same place
to the same person with the same face
and heard the music play and saw the same view
well there’s a name for it, I’m telling you it’s…

déjà vu, déjà vu
yeah it’s me again, you’re talking to
déjà vu, déjà vu
if it feels like you’ve been here before, if it feels like you’ve been here before
it’s true!

could it be a wormhole in time
could it be a trick of the mind
nevermind it’s all too weird
déjà vu puts you right back here

Einstein and Sir Stephen Hawking
Simone de Beauvoir, Stanislavski
Susan Sontag and Noam Chomsky
Tried to find the cause of…

déjà vu, déjà vu
yeah it’s me again, you’re talking to
déjà vu, déjà vu
if it feels like you’ve been here before, if it feels like you’ve been here before
it’s true!

16. Lori Henriques – Heisenberg’s Aha!

Electrons are highly mysterious
This topic indeed is quite serious
It’s starting to feel so imperious
I think I’m becoming delirious

I wanted to finally grasp
The Quantum Mechanics at last
I stayed up for half the night reading
And by morning I felt like retreating

I hardly could see how this thing could be
A concept I could comprehend
It’s as if I’d come to the point I was numb
All the way to my mind’s bitter end

After all those hours of thinking
Just as I felt I was sinking
I was saying things like “Aye yigh yigh yeynman”
When I heard the voice of Dr. Feynman

He gave some advice that sounded quite nice
He talked about imagination
We must “stretch it out to the utmost”
A companion to our concentration

When we open our minds and calmly let go
Of needing things to be familiar
We can then head on face them and gladly embrace them
And celebrate how they’re peculiar!

An electron looks like a particle
And it also acts like a wave
And once I began to accept this
That electron began to behave

This is called complementarity
When a concept that seems a disparity
Is the very best way we can show
How a set of phenomena go

He went on to say how he learned this one day
While studying dear Werner Heisenberg
Who walked after dark to his neighborhood park
Just to keep his blood pressure from risin'(berg)

As he walked on in his torment
Questioning waves versus particles
He encountered his own aha moment
Which is now found in hundreds of articles

More than eighty years ago
Werner Heisenberg managed to show
Probability and Uncertainty
Both exist we must agree
The future’s unpredictable
No matter how well we see
Dear Heisenberg embraced this
The beauty of uncertainty

You can either know where the electron is
Or where the electron is going
But you can’t know both at the very same time
Cause the measuring affects what you’re knowing

Again, it’s called complementarity
When a concept that seems a disparity
Is the very best way we can show
How a set of phenomena go

The very act of observing
Changes an electron’s location
And I’d be remiss If I didn’t say this
Was a bit of a collaboration

The ideas that all came together
For Heisenberg to have his zinger
Were inspired by studies before
That came from Niels Bohr and Schrödinger

And indeed Schrödinger and Bohr
Were inspired by who came before
Like Pascal and Coulomb and Newton
And Maxwell and Einstein and more

There’s a path from all of this knowledge
And it’s leading directly to you
To pick-up where others left off
And discover a concept that’s new

And remember your imagination
Is a voice inside that can help you
To understand Quantum Mechanics
And so many more things about you

These particle waves are so active
In each atom they’re racing around
They’re all taking up so much room
And they really and truly astound

The vast spaces where electrons roam
Mean we’re not as solid as we thought
So actually, when you sit down to tea
You’re levitating on the spot!

The wilder the concept the more fun it is
I feel scientifically brave
And thanks to dear Heisenberg’s aha we know
An electron is both a particllllllle… and a wave!

17. Barbara Brousal – I Wonder

1/ How do you make a bubble?
What’s in invisible ink?
Why does the moon get bigger and smaller
And bigger and smaller you think?

I Wonder

2/ What glows on the tail of a firefly,
When he’s floating in the summer sky?
Why can he soar and why can’t I?
And you lose him in a blink.

I Wonder
I Wonder

Bridge/ And how much, how much do I love you?
As wide as the sky as bright as the moon,
As loud as a thunder storm in June?
Perhaps you will answer
All of these questions soon

Musical Interlude

3/ How far away am I,
From the stars burning up in the dark black sky?
From the planets spinning wildly by,
How far am I?

I Wonder
I Wonder

18. Ashley Albert – The Science Fair.