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Methuselah
02:10
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Many years later
He tells his children
"You'll live long."
"How long?"
Possibly...
220 years
About 220 years
Baring sickness and accidents
Around 220 years.
"Can we give this to everyone?"
"There's only enough for thousands.
Imagine the headlines:
You Too Can Be Methuselah"
For about...
We've got to keep this secret
But she figured it out too
She's been selling the treatment
To clients at a beauty salon!
So they can live for...
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Right Away
01:19
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Right away, the secret gets out
One tells her boyfriend
So scared to outlive everyone that she loves
Another tells his wife
She's angry, feels betrayed
She demands the treatment too
Right away, the secret is out
Longer life can't be kept secret
Everyone wants it, everyone demands it
Right away, right away
The secret is out
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Playing God
02:04
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It's gone too far, beyond its own province
Pride added to the other sins of science
Playing God, going beyond His expressed will
let me read you that passage again:
"The days of man are but as grass
For he flowereth as a flower of the field
Three score years and ten, or
Be so strong to fourscore years."
Now science in impious vanity
Challenges the designs of the universe's architect
Set against God's plan and
Says it can do better.
A new Golden Calf
Defiled by their own works
Going a-whoring
With their own inventions
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The Antigerone
02:14
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Those who rule should be first in line
They're the ones who serve society and
Could make the most of the longer years
They should be alive to see the results
HORDE THE ANTIGERONE
We the Brotherhood of Morticians
We have grave concerns
Use of this drug, if permitted
Will cause our services to be largely unneeded.
BAN THE ANTIGERONE
To think that the young should receive treatment
While the elderly perish even sooner
Priority should be given to the aged
They need it more than anyone else
GIVE US THE ANTIGERONE
It's an outrage that the idle rich
Should be the only ones to have long life
We demand the government impound this drug
And make it freely available to the workers
FREE THE ANTIGERONE
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Harbron Thunder Bay, Ontario
Indie geek folk-rock songs about sci-fi and the soul, Commodore 64 and the mind, and flat earth.
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Blanket Truth is truth.
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