Lyr Add: Ambition

Subject: Lyr Add: Ambition
From: Eden
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 08:07 AM

Here's a song that touches on the issue of where birds came from...though the exact manner of this theory is questionable. Oddly, the chorus doesn't happen every verse. And the word in ** is pronounced with a faint note of disgust.

Quoth one Triassic dinosaur, "I'm tired and I'm bored.
My kin have conquered land and sea, but few have ever soared.
And should I not aspire to heights? Above me is the air.
Move over bugs and pterasaurs, for I shall soon be there.

(chorus)
Set me free, I want to be a bird.
The great primeval urge to fly within my breast is stirred.
Set me free, I want what flying brings.
Change these scales to feathers and these forearms into wings!

Well, he flapped his arms and flailed his tail and wiggled a toe or two,
But just fainted from exhaustion, saying, "This will never do!"
He gave a good long running start; it surely couldn't hurt,
And gave a leap - but crashed to earth - his muzzle in the dirt.

"There must be some neat trick," he thought, "to launch me into flight."
So in his mind, he jumped from cliffs but - no, that wasn't right.
In resignation, he retired into a tree nearby;
"It's just no use. I'm not the type. I'm never going to fly.

But...(chorus)

Well, soon, a rival dinosaur passed close by underneath.
Our friend, a territorial beast, sat up and bared his teeth.
He spread his arms out to the side, his colors to display,
And as he did - the wind came up - and carried him away.

So proud was he of his success, he soared back to the tree
To pass his newfound prowess on to all his progeny.
And in the late Jurassic, his offspring won their wings,
And grew bird feet, and rimidges, and other birdy things.

So now birds populate the Earth, their bodies cloud the sky
Since that one aspiring reptile went and taught himself to fly.
We've eagles and we've finches and we've *pigeons* by the score,
Who owe their great success to that pre-co-scious di-no-saur,
Still singin'...

(chorus)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ambition
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 07:59 PM

The guy who wrote that wouldn't be named Lamarck, would he?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ambition
From: Eden
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 07:54 AM

Um, I'm not sure. I get these filks secondhand, from my cousin, Doomspark (his online name, obviously). I really don't know who wrote the songs I have posted to date.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ambition
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:32 PM

That was a joke, meant to show off my education, which currently isn't doing me much good except to help me win an occasional game of Trivial Pursuit. See Lamarck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ambition
From: Eden
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 07:53 AM

Ah. I see. Are you the animal liberationist kind of guy?