An Antidote for Strychnine

[Verse 1]

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, maybe they'll know

[Verse 2]

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, give them a phony last name

[Chorus]

Try to find

An antidote for strychnine

Tryin' to find

An antidote for strychnine

[Verse 3]

Time's running short

Always seems to run shorter

Have some supplies sent

From up just past the northern border

Keep a line out to the people who take the long view

[Verse 4]

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 one day

[Chorus]

Tryin' to find

An antidote for strychnine

Try to find

An antidote for strychnine

[Bridge]

So many suffering from the same affliction

Coming up on the breakthrough

The clock's ticking

[Verse 5]

Dig down amongst my calculations

Check my math

Up there on the surface

Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath

Stem the tide, stem the tide

They're calling down for reinforcements

[Chorus]

Tryin' to find

An antidote for strychnine

Tryin' to find

An antidote for strychnine