*** SCIENCE ROCK *** (1978)

Body Machine

Key to symbols within the lyrics

When you look down the street

What do you see?

The street is overflowin' with a lot of machines.

Now, I don't mean the buses, the trucks or cars

I'm talkin' 'bout the people

Yeah, you know who they are.

I'm a machine, you're a machine

Everybody that you know, you know they are machines

To keep your engine running, you need energy

For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Now I'd be a fool

If I said that the fuel

That we needed to burn was gasoline.

'Cause the fuel we use is the stuff called food

And it puts out the power for our machine.

You make a stop at the filling station

<Fill 'er up with chicken sandwich to go!>

As you start to chew, your body does it

All systems go!

<Now that sandwich contains some very important kinds of food energy

for your body. The chicken gives you protein. Bread: carbohydrate.

Mayonnaise: fat. And the lettuce has vitamins, plus cellulose or

roughage. Together, these things help keep your body machine

running smoothly.>

First the saliva, kind of like a driver

<Move to the rear of the mouth!>

But what it's doin'

Along with teeth that's chewin'

Is taking food and breaking it down.

Down to the stomach the food is pushed

The esophagus does its stuff (gulp, gulp!)

And the stomach starts...

<It's got no movin' parts!>

As the body machine churns up.

Gastric juices operate

On proteins, fats and carbohydrates

In the stomach they do what they do

To take out nutrition and use it for you.

Well the cellulose in those things you know

Will control the traffic flow

Helps the food to move along

So the good stays in and the bad gets gone.

I'm a machine, you're a machine

Everybody that you know, you know they are machines

To keep your engine running, you need energy

For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Then the small intestine

Does most of your digestin'

By sending all of the nutrients

In through the villi <Which look a little sill-i!>

But act as little vents.

The bloodstream passes

The nutrients it catches

And takes them to the cells you see

You use what it delivers

<And store some in the liver>

For future energy.

I'm a machine, you're a machine

Everybody that you know, you know they are machines

To keep your engine running, you need energy

For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Your high-powered, revved-up, complicated tuned-up

Fascinatin' body machine.

<Take care of that machine, you got such a great model there, honey!>

<Give it the right fuel - high protein, low calory.>

<Take it out for a spin every day!>

Great thanks to:

David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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