We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €1 EUR  or more

     

lyrics

I studied quantum physics back in university
I can still remember my professor said to me
That if you think about it there ain't anything at all
To keep a human being from walking through a wall

Because people are just atoms, which are mostly empty spaces
Just energy from sunlight fixed in arbitrary places
So I walked forward resolutely and pretended not to see
The white expanse of plaster spreading out in front of me

As you can imagine, it wasn't a success
I passed out on the lab floor, my face a bloody mess

I ran the calculations and everything seemed right
But I couldn't find one particle relating mass to light
Deep in my frustration I heard somebody say
Scientists in Switzerland were trying to find a way

So I flew down to Geneva and I took a tour of CERN
But I broke off from the tour group when the leader's back was turned
I ran to the collider, started flipping all the switches
Screaming "Show me what I'm missing, you withholding sons of bitches"

Security was ruthless; they threw me in a cell
The walls were made of cinderblock as far as I could tell

Four or five years later I still hadn't gotten far
When I saw my old professor through the window of a bar
I sat down at his table and he ordered me a beer
He asked about my research and I broke down into tears

I said people are just atoms, but they're still subject to forces
In my case, certain impulses; in your case three divorces
And I'm not your student now and I can tell that you've been drinking
It won't take a quantum physicist to find out what I'm thinking

I got his number after
Though I knew I wouldn't call
He left through the back door
And I left through the wall

credits

from .​.​.​And Other Disasters: Home Recordings, released October 18, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Glassberg & The Disasters Berlin, Germany

contact / help

Contact Glassberg & The Disasters

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Glassberg & The Disasters, you may also like: