Woes of an Eager Redshirt
Words and music by DG Fletcher
Capo 3
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There's always been a big cloud around me
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Ever since calculus in grade three
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or before
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They took me to the Betazoid medic
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Boy what you've got is genetic
CGEm
Here's a pill, chill, an AI to watch you not kill yourself
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“How dare you want off this ride?”
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There were rumors about Kirk's redshirts
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Landing and dying in big spurts
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All the time
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Worked really hard for a transfer
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Ambitions nobody censored
CGEm
Learned to guard, hard, the AI was proud of my battle scars
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"I told you you would be fine"
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Kirk Spock Mccoy and 4 Redshirts
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Me, Smith, MBey, and Haverts
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There's a bomb
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Scotty beams out his buddies
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No time for us understudies
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It goes boom, doom, I'm the only one alive in the room now
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Me and my trusty AI
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This is my fortieth mission
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Obviously still in position
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A-live
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We've rescued damsels and aliens
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Prolly saved Homo Sapiens
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I've survived, thrived, me and my AI on the Enterprise
CAm
Srsly why am I alive?
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On Sunday Kirk is retiring
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I find my awards uninspiring
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There's a bunch
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I hope the AI lets me age out
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Given my health I have big doubts
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‘Cause it's job, sob, mission quest program objective
CGAm
Is to not let me off of this ride
CGEm
‘Cause it's job, sob, mission quest program objective
CGA
Is to not let me off of this ride!!