One or two of you (Tom Bliss, for instance) might have heard "Molecules" by my brother John, former MC and act booker at the Topic in Bradford. The lyrics are online on the website I did for him and I reproduce them below; some of the named references are now a tad dated (Sharon, Arafat). There's a small sample of him singing it here. Molecules by John Waller Where did we all come from? If you stop and think Our bodies are entirely made of what we eat and drink We're all built up from molecules, our flesh and bones and skin We take them in, they stay a while, then pass from us again We eat we drink we breathe we grow, that's what humans do Then micturate and defecate and the molecules pass through What then am I made of, what tonight is part of me? This morning's egg and sausage, the fish I had for tea The bread and cheese I ate last week is still making my bones strong I've beer inside my bladder, though that won't be staying long. Last month the egg was in a hen, the sausage was a cow The fish was swimming in the sea, but they're all inside me now The bread was wheat, the cheese was grass, both were miles away The water, malt and yeast and hops hadn't reached the brewery We eat we drink we breathe we grow, that's what humans do Then micturate and defecate and the molecules pass through So where does it all go to, when it's finished being me? Our turds are buried in the ground, the wee flows back to sea Both join the soil and water from which living things will grow To be eaten by some bugger else far away who I don't know So what this means for all of us, I've thought of it a lot Our bodies ever melting in some vast organic pot The molecules that currently are part of me, it's true Tomorrow will pass out again, and will one day be in you We eat we drink we breathe we grow, that's what humans do Then micturate and defecate and the molecules pass through So there's Jew in every Muslim, dog in every cat There's parts of Ariel Sharon that were once in Arafat There's black in white, Chinese in brown, it nails the racist lie Inside every ardent feminist there are parts of macho guy There's things in Ian Duncan Smith* that were once in Tony Blair There's parts of Ginger Rogers that have moved through Fred Astaire There's some of us in all of us - and what really gives me hope Is knowing parts of Ian Paisley have been shat out by the Pope. We eat we drink we breathe we grow, that's what humans do Then micturate and defecate and the molecules pass through * Michael Howard, David Cameron .... Here's how he writes about it on his website: "The basic idea for this occurred to me when I was ten years old; and wondered where, exactly, all the molecules that constituted my baby brother** had been a year earlier, before he was born. It much later became the basis for a stand-up routine before ending up as this song. The concept has been approved by Biomedical Scientists and rubbished by Statisticians. But parts of it must be true.." **ie, me G, D, C, G; Am, G, Am, D Em, C, G, D, Em C, G,D,G
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