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The Modern Prometheus

from Nutbilly Deluxe by The Thumbnuts

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Victor was a man of science
He always robbed the graves
He brought his friend Igor along
And they went and robbed the graves
He said “O, my master, what will you need?”
They went and climbed down the hill into the cemetery
He said “O dear Igor, here's what you need”
You'll need three things, and they start with these:
This is how it goes
First I'll need a brain
And then I'll need a heart
And then I'll need a set of lungs
And every other part
Digging six ft under
Digging left and right
Trying to discover
What pieces will be right
We've got 100 corpses
Surely, that seems enough
I hate to be the asshole
But we need 100 more
Back up in the castle
200 stiffs around
Chop these certain pieces
Stitch them into one
Stitch them back together
Baby, we're having fun
Lightning strikes the castle
The creature jolts alive
Searching for the asshole
That made him alive
He's got body parts, they're hanging by a thread
What's up with his haircut, up upon his head?
It looks like a flat top, but that’s his skull
What is the answer to, “Why he looks like this?”
He runs around the castle
Trying to escape
He runs around the castle
Looking for his maker
He's gonna strangle him
…
Why am I here?
Why am I live?
What is this feeling
I feel inside?
I have to escape this castle
I have to get away
My skin is itchy and
I'm feeling pretty grey
Running through the halls trying to survive
I jump out a window and I'm still alive?
Landin’ in the river, running into town
And when I got there, you’d never guess what I found…
A little blind girl by the river
She's throwin’ petals in the lake
We both laugh and laugh
I pick her up by the body
I whip her right into the lake
So she can float down like the petals
And float on, upon the lake
Later that night
Vincent Frankenstein got a telegram, it said:
The whole town now surrounds you
We're all mad at what you did
You made a goddamn monster out of body parts
And shocked it back to life
You didn't know what the fuck you were doing
You set it on out to life
And then it met a kid down on the river bed
And he threw it into the lake
And one of us in the mob is her mother and father
And we're mad as hell
Hey, look at you,
Vincent Frankenstein
And Igor
You old twat
Why the hell were you helping him?
Now look at what you’ve wrought
Eh, Igor, you hunchback, fuck
Or you upright little cuck
That's what the whole telegram said
And that's why Vincent cried
"Why are you crying, Vincent?"
That’s what Igor asked
I just read a telegram to us
That says we're surrounded and about to be killed
Because what we did was questionable and bad
And now we are facing the repercussions for what we did
And you and me are in this together
We both know what we did

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from Nutbilly Deluxe, released June 30, 2023

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