Allow cookies in your browser

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Student Body Lyrics | LYRNOW.COM Lyrics

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Student Body

To Rate
VINCENT
Was it something in the bacterium
That turned toxic once it died?
The answer lay in pneumococcus
A pathogen they scrutinized

It produced a substance not after death
But as it lived and grew
A substance that befouled the blood
Disturbing nerves and tissue
But did this signify deadly disease
In those poor undergraduate men?
With a rusty precipitate, it was always too late
Death was only a matter of when

It’s infectious, it’s deadly, it’s one to be fеared
The toxins it makes will sprеad
With the heart’s throb and pull, growing out of control
’til the whole student body is dead

Poison produced by foreign bacteria
Something that doesn’t belong
Something corrupting the system that made it
Something intangibly wrong

That’s not its fault; it can’t fix it
‘cause it’s not where it’s meant to be
Just like they remind you whenever they find you
You’re never what they wanna see

You’re infectious, you’re deadly, you’re one to be feared
The toxins you make will spread
With the heart’s throb and pull, growing out of control
’til the whole student body is dead

AMBROSE/VINCENT
And doesn’t it make you curious?
Doesn’t it make you smile
When you find out what you’re good at
After looking for such a while
As natural as painting
With more intimate charm
VINCENT
The scalpel I was holding
Was an extension of my arm

And doesn’t it make you curious?
It’s so fussy and tactile
Each life yours to ablate
Each hall yours to defile
No one there to stop me
No consequence to face
Play god for the student body
Play god for the human race

I’m infectious, I’m deadly, I’m one to be feared
The toxins I make will spread
With the heart’s throb and pull, growing out of control
’til the whole student body
’til the whole student body –

(The lighting shifts, and Vincent is alone in Ambrose's room surrounded by the breathing of the Marmorei. They reappear after a moment.)

VINCENT
'Till the whole student body is dead!

Comments

More Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak lyrics

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - The Ballad of Jimmy July
Anthony Let me tell you the story of jimmy july First "american chinese" beneath the big sky The papers and gawkers made jimmy well-known But despite all his fame, jimmy

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - I Breathe In, You Breathe Out
Hao Here are some sweets Candies, apple Honey from your bees You don’t like sweets Just salt and coffee Lemon-flavored teas If i can’t tempt you back with

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - I Don't Know You Anymore
Hao I hope i'm not right I hope you won't think me insane But something is wrong with jÓzef I don’t want to fight But the thoughts i have remain Something is

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - If We Met Up Again
Anthony If we met up again We would get cocoa Arranged over text In your taciturn way If we met up again Somewhere in noho I’d get a pastry ‘cause i know

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Don't Die Wondering
JÓzef In a room without a lock In a house but not a home Where the landlord doesn’t knock Where the land is not our own How can we spend all our years Jumping at

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Good Enough
Anthony Try not to wish that i’d just stayed home in bed Try to ignore guys talking over my head Choke down a chaser, pretending to text Make sure my lock screen crops out my

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Your Face
JÓzef You go to bed at midnight Hao On some nights you snore It reminds me i don’t have to live alone (hao settles down by the windowsill.) JÓzef You

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Montana
Joey The kind of saturated sky That stays the same from spring to fall In the calendar hung on your wall Counting down the days Until montana The kind of guy that

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - Sheep in Wolf Country
Joey Our map is old, the signs are wrong But singing songs, we roll along The wide open spaces Of the land of the free Anthony As the setting sun grows brighter

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak - There's a House
JÓzef Past the mile five bridge Down to dead end gulch There’s a house with no locks on the door JÓzef/hao Past the mile five bridge Down to dead end gulch

Elliot Valentine Lee, Mel Hornyak

Elliot Valentine Lee and Mel Hornyak (known together as Melliot) are a queer musical writing duo.