Guinea Pig

from Tomorrow Calling by Screech Owls

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Based on the novel "Flowers For Algernon" written by Daniel Keyes
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Musicians
Matthieu Maurel : vocals, guitars
Brieuc Maurel: drums
Olivier Piquet: guitars
Christophe "Gliter" Paillette: bass
Audrey & Emmanuelle : strings
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lyrics

My name is Charly Gordon
I used to work at the bakery Donner
All my life I've wanted to be clever
I go to lessons for retarded persons
It's very hard the be brainy
I forget a lot when I learn things

Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur
Say they're gonna use for an experiment
To increase my intelligence quotient
Soon I'll be able to defeat Algernon
Wish it will work then I'll
Clever as everybody is

My mummy would be so proud of me
I realize she actually didn't love me
Help me please
I have never asked my being a guinea pig

Yesterday I left the hospital
I don't know if I am another man
Have to do the best that I can
To store up millions of details

My friends at the bakery seem to be afraid
To notice their Charly isn't the same
I developed a super brain
Years turned into days
I fidget, what an heroic deed

Now I'm brought in medical meetings
Expected my science to exhibit
Recollections from the past
Avoid me to sleep at night
It goes too far, it reopens scars
Lost in some part of my brain
Lost somewhere, anywhere

Last night I didn't remember where I lived
I have the feeling that this already happened to me
I know he's here, him the former Charly
Lurking within me, waiting for my dying

My name is Charly Gordon
I'm still working at the bakery Donner
I know what happens to me
But there's nothing to do, to do with me
And if you get the chance
Put some flowers on Alergnon's grave

credits

from Tomorrow Calling, released June 1, 1998
Words & Music : Matthieu Maurel
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Recorded @ Franklin Studio
Engineering, Mixing : Florent Barbier
Mastering : Madloc (Paris, France)
String arrangement : Matthieu Maurel & Florent Barbier

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