An Antidote for Strychnine

Dig around in the garbage
 Save up some halibut bones in a jar
 Scrape a winter's worth of salt deposits
 From the rusty frame of my car
 Ask the experts
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 Maybe they'll know
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 Call up my teacher in Cambridge
 See what he remembers
 Throw white phosphorus in the fireplace
 Look for clues in the embers
 Call the hotline
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 Give them a phony last name
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 Try to find
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 An antidote for strychnine
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 Trying to find
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 An antidote for strychnine
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 Time's running short
 Always seems to run shorter
 Have some supplies sent
 From up just past the northern border
 Keep a line out
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 To the people who take the long view
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 Only share my research
 With sick lab rats like me
 Trapped behind the beakers
 And the Erlenmeyer flasks
 Cut off from the world, I may not ever get free
 But I may
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 One day
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 Trying to find
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 An antidote for strychnine
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 Trying to find
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 An antidote for strychnine
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 So many suffering from the same affliction
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 Coming up on a breakthrough
 The clock's ticking
 Dig down amongst my calculations
 Check my map
 Up there on the surface
 Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath
 Stem the tide, stem the tide
 
 They're calling down for reinforcements
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 Trying to find
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 An antidote for strychnine
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 Trying to find
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 An antidote for strychnine