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Shallow End of the Gene Pool
(Austin Lounge Lizards)
March 25, 2009
Emily Kaitz
This is the newest live recording in the studio, with Julieann singing it. It's unreleased officially, and our new bass player Bruce Jones is now singing it, but here's Juliann for your listening pleasure.
My Daddy was a man of lettersMy Mama was a head of stateAnd when they got their chromosomes togetherThey gave me all of their recessive traitsI'm an embarrassment to evolutionMy disposition is unstable and cruelMy blood's a catastrophic blend'Cause I'm from the shallow end of the gene poolMy IQ is a negative numberI've got a sense of humor no one can standAnd my development was seriously encumberedBy playing music with the Lounge Lizards bandI'm a social director's nightmareAt dinner parties I just babble and droolIt's not easy making friendsWhen you're from the shallow end of the gene poolI'm from the shallow end of the gene poolMy x-rays make the doctors laughWhen they tried to chart my EEG wavesWell I wasn't even on the graphBiological research is boomingThey're making breakthroughs like you wouldn't believeThey say genetic engineering in humansWill someday soon be a realityI'm gonna get me a DNA transplantThey're gonna rearrange my moleculesSome natural laws will have to bendTo get me from the shallow end of the gene pool