{"id":1410,"date":"2012-09-04T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1410"},"modified":"2012-09-04T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:38:35","slug":"science-fair-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/science-fair-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fair Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a number of requests to post the lyrics to the songs from Science Fair<\/em><\/a>, and I’m pleased to do so for many of the songs:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Babe the Blue OX – Surfin’ Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two little bugs
\nSitting on a rug
\nTalking ’bout the weather
\nAnd one wondered with a shrug,
\n“Do you think it’s here?
\nDo you think it’s time?
\nTo move out of the city
\nTo a kinder gentler clime?”<\/p>\n

The sky won’t fall down
\n‘Cause I’m in a band
\nThe sky won’t fall down<\/p>\n

“Oh my little dear
\nOh my little one
\nIs that all that you’re scared of
\nJust an overly-thirsty sun?
\nWe’ll just surf Minnesota!
\nSunbathe Ontario!
\nWe’ll winter in Alaska
\nNow let’s go, go, go, go!”<\/p>\n

The sky won’t fall down
\n‘Cause I’m in a band
\nThe sky won’t fall down<\/p>\n

Drip
\nDrop<\/p>\n

2. Moona Luna – H2O<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, I’d rather have the sun come out.
\nOh, than for the rain to pour down.
\nOh, I’d rather have the sun come out.
\nOh, than for the rain to pour down.
\nI know it’s inevitable and also necessary.
\nThe plants and the animals, they need water to live and so do we.
\nH20.<\/p>\n

O, prefiero cuando brilla el sol.
\nO, en vez de cuando llueve.
\nO, prefiero cuando brilla el sol.
\nO, en vez de cuando llueve.
\nYo se que es inevitable y tambien necesario.
\nLas plantas y los animales necesitan agua como nosotros.
\nH20.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Deedle Deedle Dees & IMPACT Repertory Theatre – Time Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Frances England – Goldilocks Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Late at night, underneath the moonlight
\nStaring up at the stars
\nI’m wondering if somewhere in the universe
\nthere could be a planet like ours<\/p>\n

Oh, we may have friends far from home
\nWaiting for us in the Goldilocks Zone<\/p>\n

Not too hot, not too cold
\nIn the middle, just right
\nCould this star be your sun?
\nCould you be there,
\nI’ll be looking for you every night
\nYou keep me on my toes<\/p>\n

Oh, we may have friends far from home
\nWaiting for us in the Goldilocks Zone<\/p>\n

Not too hot, not too cold
\nIn the middle, just right
\nNot too hot, not too cold
\nthe Goldilocks Zone<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Nields – Butterfly<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. \u00a0Laura Veirs – Little Black Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n

standing in a forest all covered in snow
\ni got a few match sticks and a lump of coal
\n20 below but i’ll be ok
\nmy little black rock gonna light the way<\/p>\n

CHORUS:
\nmy little black rock
\ntrapped the sun for a million years
\nmy little black rock
\nmelt my heart when your flames come near<\/p>\n

working up sun strength in their leaves
\ni thank those giant horsetail trees
\nmy lips are blue but not for long
\nmy little black rock is burning strong<\/p>\n

CHORUS<\/p>\n

inst V and Ch<\/p>\n

twenty five miles til i reach the shore
\nmy little black rock may be no more
\ncatch a southbound ship if we’re not iced in
\nor we’ll wait it out eatin’ fish from a tin<\/p>\n

CHORUS extended<\/p>\n

7. \u00a0Elizabeth Mitchell – Phytoplankton (written by Molly Ledford)<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. \u00a0Mates of State – I Am A Scientist (written by Robert Pollard)<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. \u00a0Wunmi – Rainbow<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. \u00a0Cat & a Bird – Constellation Bound<\/strong><\/p>\n

on the bus to the rocket site
\nrocket is ready to go
\ncaptain’s orders: “seat belts on!
\nCountdown started. Let’s go!”<\/p>\n

CHORUS:
\nramping up speed going thru the clouds
\nbooster engines off, boy, were they loud
\nthe sky’s getting darker and colder around
\nwe are in the spaceship constellation bound<\/p>\n

there’s a Russian satellite
\nand a French and a German one too
\nbut we’ll pass them in a blink of an eye
\nthey won’t be spoiling our view<\/p>\n

of they space!
\ndark empty space.
\ndark empty space.
\nbut empty it’s NOT!
\nconstellations left and right
\nthere’s so many, who would’ve thought!?<\/p>\n

CHORUS:
\nLeo, Pisces, Taurus and Puppis
\nCorvus, Crater, Cygnus and Libra
\nDraco, Aquarius, Pegasus and Ara
\nScorpius, Norma, Delphinus, Hydra<\/p>\n

Big Deeper is winking at me
\nand Leo is the king of the sky
\nLyra is hiding, Orion’s exciting
\nand Libra’s perpetually shy<\/p>\n

Setting the course to Centarus
\nI’m sure we’ll get to it soon
\nit’s the nearest one to the Earth
\nwe will slingshot ’round the Moon<\/p>\n

CHORUS:
\nramping up speed going thru asteroid belt
\nion engines on, I hope they don’t melt
\nthe sky’s getting darker and colder around
\nwe are in the spaceship constellation bound<\/p>\n

Leo, Pisces, Taurus and Puppis
\nCorvus, Crater, Cygnus and Libra
\nDraco, Aquarius, Pegasus and Ara
\nScorpius, Norma, Delphinus, Hydra<\/p>\n

11. Lunch Money – To Be a Fossil<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be a fossil
\na million years from now
\nand make you say, “Holy cow!”
\nThough you probably won’t say “holy cow” a million years from now<\/p>\n

to be discovered
\nlike all those ammonites
\nand maybe shed a little light
\non a history you’re trying to rewrite<\/p>\n

I promise not to be too sneaky
\ncome and find me, Mary Leakey
\ni’m a little piece you’re seeking
\nTell a story with my bones<\/p>\n

Follow your gut
\nwith a sieve and a wire brush
\nthe holocene epoch
\nawaits you in all of this sedimentary rock<\/p>\n

love to know how
\nthe earth has come along
\nis the sun going strong?
\ndo you live here or is this cosmic gallivant?<\/p>\n

crackles in the fossil record
\nancient insects caught in amber
\nI can help the world remember
\ntell a story with my bones<\/p>\n

[ETHEREAL PAUSE]<\/p>\n

the movement of the continents
\nthe changes in the climate
\nthe species that would fade
\nan evolution onward
\nof the ones that were stalwart
\nand all the things they made<\/p>\n

[DREAMY, LAYERED OUTRO]<\/p>\n

to be a fossil
\na million years from now\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026to be a fossil [REPEAT TO DESIRED EFFECT]<\/p>\n

LISTING UNDERNEATH END:<\/p>\n

bicycles and blue trombones
\nsilver spoons and styrofoam
\nastroturf and boards for surf
\nbottle caps, rotary phones<\/p>\n

scaffolding and bed springs
\nsteering wheels, vending machines
\nroller skates and license plates
\nautomatons who could do drawings<\/p>\n

rubicks cubes and leisure suits
\nradios and tennis shoes
\nginzu knives and MRIs
\nand metal boxes full of screws<\/p>\n

nickels, pennies, subway tokens
\npots and pans, stars for throwin’
\npicture frames and daisy chains and
\nnecklaces with hearts that open<\/p>\n

12. MC Fireworks (with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo) – Rocket Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

13. Renee & Jeremy – (I Wanna Be Like) Madame Curie<\/strong><\/p>\n

my friends think it’s boring
\nwhen I wanna go exploring the particles
\nand elements the building blocks of life<\/p>\n

but give me a microscope
\nand 2 ounces of hope
\nand we just might make
\nscience history<\/p>\n

chorus
\nI wanna be like madame curie
\nwhen I grow up
\nexplore the world that’s always twirling
\nand other stuff<\/p>\n

I’d build my own laboratory
\nthen maybe people would sing my story
\njust like madame curie<\/p>\n

she was a professor the first woman
\never in paris at the university<\/p>\n

it’s not easy to discover what madame had uncovered
\npolonium and radium -that others could not see<\/p>\n

so she took her microscope
\nand 2 ounces of hope
\nand found the theory of radioactivity<\/p>\n

bridge
\ntime with tell- if all goes well
\nwouldn’t it be swell to win a nobel (or 2)<\/p>\n

14. Rachel Loshak – Oh Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every morning I wake up and open my eyes
\nI see as if for the first time the light in the sky
\nI measure the daffodils, measure the snow
\nLooking around for more things I can know<\/p>\n

Oh girl, you can be whatever you want to be
\nDon’t stop, step out, there’s a whole world to see
\nLook from the rooftop, o’er the garden
\nTo the mountains and plains
\nThere’s a world there if you want it
\nFor you just the same<\/p>\n

I ponder on the future, I picture a birth
\nKnowing that I’ll be a woman, walking the earth
\nJust like my mother, just like a queen
\nLike a princess or pauper and all in-between<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

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

Chorus<\/p>\n

15. Alison Faith Levy & Rudy Trubitt – Deja Vu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever feel like everything that\u2019s happened
\nhas happened the same way previously
\nand you\u2019re caught up in a time warp
\nand you blink your eyes kinda nervously<\/p>\n

you said the same thing in the same place
\nto the same person with the same face
\nand heard the music play and saw the same view
\nwell there\u2019s a name for it, I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n

d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu
\nyeah it\u2019s me again, you\u2019re talking to
\nd\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu
\nif it feels like you\u2019ve been here before, if it feels like you\u2019ve been here before
\nit\u2019s true!<\/p>\n

could it be a wormhole in time
\ncould it be a trick of the mind
\nnevermind it\u2019s all too weird
\nd\u00e9j\u00e0 vu puts you right back here<\/p>\n

Einstein and Sir Stephen Hawking
\nSimone de Beauvoir, Stanislavski
\nSusan Sontag and Noam Chomsky
\nTried to find the cause of\u2026<\/p>\n

d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu
\nyeah it\u2019s me again, you\u2019re talking to
\nd\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu
\nif it feels like you\u2019ve been here before, if it feels like you\u2019ve been here before
\nit\u2019s true!<\/p>\n

16. Lori Henriques – Heisenberg’s Aha!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Electrons are highly mysterious
\nThis topic indeed is quite serious
\nIt’s starting to feel so imperious
\nI think I’m becoming delirious<\/p>\n

I wanted to finally grasp
\nThe Quantum Mechanics at last
\nI stayed up for half the night reading
\nAnd by morning I felt like retreating<\/p>\n

I hardly could see how this thing could be
\nA concept I could comprehend
\nIt’s as if I’d come to the point I was numb
\nAll the way to my mind’s bitter end<\/p>\n

After all those hours of thinking
\nJust as I felt I was sinking
\nI was saying things like “Aye yigh yigh yeynman”
\nWhen I heard the voice of Dr. Feynman<\/p>\n

He gave some advice that sounded quite nice
\nHe talked about imagination
\nWe must “stretch it out to the utmost”
\nA companion to our concentration<\/p>\n

When we open our minds and calmly let go
\nOf needing things to be familiar
\nWe can then head on face them and gladly embrace them
\nAnd celebrate how they’re peculiar!<\/p>\n

An electron looks like a particle
\nAnd it also acts like a wave
\nAnd once I began to accept this
\nThat electron began to behave<\/p>\n

This is called complementarity
\nWhen a concept that seems a disparity
\nIs the very best way we can show
\nHow a set of phenomena go<\/p>\n

He went on to say how he learned this one day
\nWhile studying dear Werner Heisenberg
\nWho walked after dark to his neighborhood park
\nJust to keep his blood pressure from risin'(berg)<\/p>\n

As he walked on in his torment
\nQuestioning waves versus particles
\nHe encountered his own aha moment
\nWhich is now found in hundreds of articles<\/p>\n

More than eighty years ago
\nWerner Heisenberg managed to show
\nProbability and Uncertainty
\nBoth exist we must agree
\nThe future’s unpredictable
\nNo matter how well we see
\nDear Heisenberg embraced this
\nThe beauty of uncertainty<\/p>\n

You can either know where the electron is
\nOr where the electron is going
\nBut you can’t know both at the very same time
\nCause the measuring affects what you’re knowing<\/p>\n

Again, it’s called complementarity
\nWhen a concept that seems a disparity
\nIs the very best way we can show
\nHow a set of phenomena go<\/p>\n

The very act of observing
\nChanges an electron’s location
\nAnd I’d be remiss If I didn’t say this
\nWas a bit of a collaboration<\/p>\n

The ideas that all came together
\nFor Heisenberg to have his zinger
\nWere inspired by studies before
\nThat came from Niels Bohr and Schr\u00f6dinger<\/p>\n

And indeed Schr\u00f6dinger and Bohr
\nWere inspired by who came before
\nLike Pascal and Coulomb and Newton
\nAnd Maxwell and Einstein and more<\/p>\n

There’s a path from all of this knowledge
\nAnd it’s leading directly to you
\nTo pick-up where others left off
\nAnd discover a concept that’s new<\/p>\n

And remember your imagination
\nIs a voice inside that can help you
\nTo understand Quantum Mechanics
\nAnd so many more things about you<\/p>\n

These particle waves are so active
\nIn each atom they’re racing around
\nThey’re all taking up so much room
\nAnd they really and truly astound<\/p>\n

The vast spaces where electrons roam
\nMean we’re not as solid as we thought
\nSo actually, when you sit down to tea
\nYou’re levitating on the spot!<\/p>\n

The wilder the concept the more fun it is
\nI feel scientifically brave
\nAnd thanks to dear Heisenberg’s aha we know
\nAn electron is both a particllllllle… and a wave!<\/p>\n

17. Barbara Brousal – I Wonder<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/ How do you make a bubble?
\nWhat’s in invisible ink?
\nWhy does the moon get bigger and smaller
\nAnd bigger and smaller you think?<\/p>\n

I Wonder<\/p>\n

2\/ What glows on the tail of a firefly,
\nWhen he’s floating in the summer sky?
\nWhy can he soar and why can’t I?
\nAnd you lose him in a blink.<\/p>\n

I Wonder
\nI Wonder<\/p>\n

Bridge\/ And how much, how much do I love you?
\nAs wide as the sky as bright as the moon,
\nAs loud as a thunder storm in June?
\nPerhaps you will answer
\nAll of these questions soon<\/p>\n

Musical Interlude<\/p>\n

3\/ How far away am I,
\nFrom the stars burning up in the dark black sky?
\nFrom the planets spinning wildly by,
\nHow far am I?<\/p>\n

I Wonder
\nI Wonder<\/p>\n

18. Ashley Albert – The Science Fair.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00a0Babe 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}