Gave Up Too Soon

TTTO “Spoke to Soon” by Brooke Lunderville

Our lords and our ladies are craving the metals

They all want the gold, every fop, knight and and dunce

So the question is now: can we use all the lead here

And the alchemists have now all started the hunt

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We walk blind and desperate, pretending it’s science

Rewards are quite big though our chances our small

Silver is nice, although Gold is our calling

And lead is not worth it, not worth at all

And to make gold from lead or to even make silver

Would make us all famous, oh, it would be nice

We’re wise men of folly, in labs with our science

We’re wise men of folly, with gold to entice

We found a stone, and we think it’s the answer

We think that this stone will solve all of our plights

Making it useful is just a formality

But the doubters all say that we can’t just be right

For we know that the rich folk have different agendas

With all of the gold that they want they are born

They spread lies, that we are just fooling about

Now they are all wrong, but it won’t stop the scorn

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For the science of physics has proven us right now

We finally have all that we have pursued

Though men lost their minds and their wits and their bodies

We’re finally happy, we won’t spoil the mood

It just takes some force and the atoms all shatter

The protons, and neutrons, we’ll change – as we said

The atoms we’ll change to increase them in value

“You see all this gold, well, it once was but lead

Yes this gold, well, it once was but lead”

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