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Kilmer 2010 B-sides: "Tick, Tick"
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2011-05-19T01:54:00Z
2011-05-19T01:54:00Z
<span class="Apple-style-span">Hey-o, Philos. So I went a little crazy with the Kilmer </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span">Surgam </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span">and included several fabulous pieces in addition to those picked by our judges. I'm sure you recall how the ever brilliant Michal Richardson delivered the following, and while we can't recreate her singing—which doubtless would have put to shame even the shameless Ke$ha—we can let you take another gander at the bad poetry.</span><div><br /></div><div> <div class="Section1"> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, Tick</span></span></b></p> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Michal Richardson</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Wake up in the morning feelin’ rather shitty.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Hey, what up, girl?)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Got a rash shaped like a bull’s-eye; baby, it ain’t pretty</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Before I leave, check my knees, and my elbows in back</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">‘Cause when these bastards get you, your system goes slack.</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m talkin’ ‘bout sudden shooting pains, pains</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Slowin’ down of yo’ brains, brains</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Joints hurt when it rains, rains</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gettin’ weak around the knees, knees</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Fallin’ down at the parties</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Startin’ to get a little bit woo…zy…</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Eyes pop, make it stop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now my body’s heatin’ up</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">What a sight, what a plight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">When I see the tick bite</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick glommed to my arm,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">And I’m callin’ up my mom.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Make it stop, get it off</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Can we blow the bastard up?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It’s on tight; better fight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">So I don’t get encephalitis</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, tick, unstick!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Somebody fetch my tweezers, quick!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now, the party in my head has gone supersonic</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">But if I go in for my treatment, symptoms won’t be chronic.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Pain in my nerves and my joints is simultaneous</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">And on my body’s surface, for a disease that’s cutaneous.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m talkin’ ‘bout neurons that don’t fire, fire</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Memories I don’t acquire, quire</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Situation’s gettin’ dire, dire</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m talkin’ ‘bout cognitive impairment</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">But I’ll dance until I hit the pavement</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Go until I hit the pavement…</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">…pavement…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Head pops; make it stop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gonna party ‘till I drop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tonight, I’mma fight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This disease that’s called Lyme</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, tick, I won’t be licked</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It was just a little nick!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Head pops; make it stop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gonna party ‘till I drop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tonight, I’mma fight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This disease that’s called Lyme</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, tick, I won’t be licked</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">By a buggin’ little prick; no!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Got my hands up</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">My brain breaks down</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">My heart, it sounds</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Like a dance beat</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m all washed up</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Body’s besieged</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">By this fatigue</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yeah, you got me.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">[YAWN.]</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Got my hands up</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Put your hands up</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Put your hands up…</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Do you think it might be lupus?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></i></p></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><div class="Section2"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Head pops; make it stop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gonna party ‘till I drop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tonight, I’mma fight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This disease that’s called Lyme</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, tick, I won’t be licked</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It was just a little nick.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Head pops; make it stop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gonna party ‘till I drop</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tonight, I’mma fight</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This disease that’s called Lyme</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tick, tick, I won’t be licked</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">By a buggin’ little prick, no!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oh, whoa-whoa, oh.</span></span></p></div> </div>