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*** SCIENCE ROCK *** (1978)
Body Machine
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: Bob Dorough and Jack Sheldon
Animation: Phil Kimmelman and Associates
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- When you look down the street
- What do you see?
- The street is overflowin' with a lot of machines.
- Now, I don't mean the buses, the trucks or cars
- I'm talkin' 'bout the people
- Yeah, you know who they are.
- I'm a machine, you're a machine
- Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
- To keep your engine running, you need energy
- For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Now I'd be a fool
- If I said that the fuel
- That we needed to burn was gasoline.
- 'Cause the fuel we use is the stuff called food
- And it puts out the power for our machine.
- You make a stop at the filling station
- <Fill 'er up with chicken sandwich to go!>
- As you start to chew, your body does it
- All systems go!
- <Now that sandwich contains some very important kinds of food energy
- for your body. The chicken gives you protein. Bread: carbohydrate.
- Mayonnaise: fat. And the lettuce has vitamins, plus cellulose or
- roughage. Together, these things help keep your body machine
- running smoothly.>
- First the saliva, kind of like a driver
- <Move to the rear of the mouth!>
- But what it's doin'
- Along with teeth that's chewin'
- Is taking food and breaking it down.
- Down to the stomach the food is pushed
- The esophagus does its stuff (gulp, gulp!)
- And the stomach starts...
- <It's got no movin' parts!>
- As the body machine churns up.
- Gastric juices operate
- On proteins, fats and carbohydrates
- In the stomach they do what they do
- To take out nutrition and use it for you.
- Well the cellulose in those things you know
- Will control the traffic flow
- Helps the food to move along
- So the good stays in and the bad gets gone.
- I'm a machine, you're a machine
- Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
- To keep your engine running, you need energy
- For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Then the small intestine
- Does most of your digestin'
- By sending all of the nutrients
- In through the villi <Which look a little sill-i!>
- But act as little vents.
- The bloodstream passes
- The nutrients it catches
- And takes them to the cells you see
- You use what it delivers
- <And store some in the liver>
- For future energy.
- I'm a machine, you're a machine
- Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
- To keep your engine running, you need energy
- For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
- Your high-powered, revved-up, complicated tuned-up
- Fascinatin' body machine.
- <Take care of that machine, you got such a great model there, honey!>
- <Give it the right fuel - high protein, low calory.>
- <Take it out for a spin every day!>
Great thanks to:
David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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