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Welcome to the Knowledge Science Lab
This was done just after someone's
defence; she tended to spend a wee bit too much time in the lab somedays, and
I'm not entirely sure she didn't end up seeing some of the things described
here.
(to the tune of hotel california..)
In a dark empty office
Not a soul anywhere
The stench of old
coffee
Drifting up through the air
Down the hall in the distance
I saw
that familiar sight
My soul grew weary, my mind grew dim
I knew I'd stay
there the night
Then I looked through the doorway
I heard that terminal
bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven but I know its
Hell
Then the Mac beckoned towards me
Like I didn't know the way
There
were fish on the monitors
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the Knowledge Science Lab
With electronic mail
With
electronic mail
Such a lovely jail
Plenty of Macs at the Knowledge Science
Lab
Every time of year
Every time of year
You will find us here
You
will find us here
Her mind is already wasted
She got the reference style wrong
again
She's got a lot of funny grad students
That help share the
pain
How they roam through the lounges
Deep in their thoughts
Some
drink to remember
Most drink to forget
So I called the Professor
Please
bring my degree
He said
We haven't given any of those away since
1963
And still those fish keep on calling from so far away
Keep you going
through the middle of the night
Listen to them say
Welcome to the Knowledge Science Lab
With electronic mail
With
electronic mail
Such a lovely jail
They'll fry your brain at the Knowledge
Science Lab
Nothing you can do
Nothing you can do
Crash your hard disk
too
Papers strewn on the bookshelf
Theses all put away
And she said
We
are all just prisoners here
Of our own dismay
And in the darkened
classroom
They gathered for the defence
They beat her with their academic
barbs
Until nothing more makes sense
Last thing I remember
I was
running from the Mac
I had to get my old job back while I still could
hack
Relax said the elevator
We are programmed to admit
You can check
out any time you like
But you can never submit
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