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*** SCIENCE ROCK *** (1978)

Victim Of Gravity

Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: The Tokens
Animation: Kim & Gifford Productions

Key to symbols within the lyrics

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Down, down, down, down gravity!

Helpin' wash the dishes
And I drop a cup.
Why does everything fall down,
Instead of up?
Ridin' up a hill, I spill
And hit the ground.
Wish I could fall up instead of always fallin' down.
>> Down de down down down...

I'm a victim of gravity,                      >> Oh, yeah...
Everything keeps falling down on me.          >> Down, down, down...
No matter where I go, the forces that I know  >> Keep pullin' me...
Down, down, down, down, down, down.           >> It's all around town, now.

It's like a magnet, deep inside the ground.
When I lift something up, I feel it pullin' down.
>> <It pulls me in the pool, it pulls rain down on me.>
I'm a victim of down, down, down, down gravity, yeah.

Galileo                          >> [Galileo, Galileo]
Galileo, galilee                 >> [Oooh, galilee]
He did experiments               >> [Galileo, Galileo]
With a force he couldn't see.    >> Could not see, yeah...
He allowed that all things fall  >> [Galileo, Galileo]
To earth at the very same speed. >> Very same speed, yeah...
He didn't know it yet...         >> [Galileo, Galileo]
                                 >> But that was due to gravity!

>> The Moon goes round the Earth,
>> And shines its silver light.
>> The Earth goes round the Sun,
>> And makes the seasons right.
It isn't love that makes the world go round, you see...
>> It's the power of gravity... <But please!>
Don't tell Mary-Jean!  >> Down de down down down...

>> Without Earth's gravity
>> To keep us in our place,
>> We'd have no weight at all,
>> We'd be in outer space.
The sea would float away,
And so would fields and towns.
Down, down, down, down, down, yeah.

Isaac Newton, underneath the apple tree,  >> Apple tree, yeah...
One hit him on the head, he said
"That must be gravity!"

>> <Newton's Law of Gravity says that every object in the Universe
>>  pulls on every other object.  The bigger the object, the stronger
>>  the pull.  But the greater the distance between the objects, the
>>  weaker the pull becomes.
>>
>>  Come back, Mary-Jean!>

Don't call me clumsy,
Don't ca-al me a fool.
When things fall down on me,
I'm following the rule.
The rule that says that what goes up comes down like me...
>> I'm a victim of...
Down, down, down, down, gravity...
Sho-be-do down, down, down!

Great thanks to:

David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)

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