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What a Drag!

By Wil C. Fry, 1990.05.02

(Copyright © 1990 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)

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Paranoia, they’re after me now, they’ll never let me go this time
They want to squash me once and for all, make me slime
I broke their laws, didn’t follow their codes
They want to shock me to death with those rabid electrodes
Time is running out, I feel the need for saurkraut
I gotta get out, they’re gonna smash my ugly snout
All i wanted was food and a decent, paying job
it’s not allowed; to me, they were snobbish snobs
Ahhh! let me out, they’ll kill me, i can never live normally
They called me the “Creeping Seeping Anomaly”
I see the hammer coming down,
how i wish i were big enough to get outta town
It’s over, my life is gone, like draining water.
You see, i’m an ugly fly, under a big fly swatter
What a drag!



Some older versions omit lines 11-14. Some versions are accompanied by a Matthew Wesley Laurence quotation: “Life is cool like a fool in school who likes to drool in a pool”.)




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