{"id":192,"date":"2021-02-24T01:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","slug":"whoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/whoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blues Traveler singing songs of relevance.  I have included the Lyrics, the Video, and all about the truth we seek and the cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/23\/business\/covid-vaccine-monkeys.html?fbclid=IwAR0MrCg-S57inPxmxQad1rrnIuCJjdTJ3V72IdAhHavI7vQyjpWLPS1grGo\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/23\/business\/covid-vaccine-monkeys.html?fbclid=IwAR0MrCg-S57inPxmxQad1rrnIuCJjdTJ3V72IdAhHavI7vQyjpWLPS1grGo\">Research with Animals.<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whoops - Blues Traveler\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1XWq_TOi50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever seen an atom<br>Little bits of everything floating by<br>Take a good look at them<br>Collectively they compose all you see including your eyeBrilliant puzzle<br>A living Rubix Cube we think we can figure out and solve<br>But we&#8217;re just monkeys<br>Scratching our heads trying to open our ears<br>To a chord that just won&#8217;t seem to resolveAnd we call it wisdom<br>Yes intellect in our truest sense of the word<br>You see for us security means a harmony<br>According to only what we have heard<br>And this alone and nothing less<br>Will ease our heart and our mind<br>In the hopes that in feeling free we&#8217;ll reach paradise<br>On that hilltop we&#8217;re still trying to findBut the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem<br>That paradise was once the world and it wasn&#8217;t just a dream<br>The earth was our heaven and we didn&#8217;t know there were rules for us to break<br>And maybe now we&#8217;ll find out too late what a clever hell we can makeWhoops<br>Whoops<br>Taheeka-haka-Whoops<br>WhoopsIn this corner<br>Weighing in at almost every weight imaginable&#8230;<br>Life, and all that surrounds it<br>And in this corner<br>Weighing in at well, not really very much of anything;<br>A very sound and user friendly idea<br>On finally bringing that pesky mountain to Mohammed<br>Gentlemen at the sound of the harmonica solo you may come out fightingTake a look at the horizon<br>Quiet and still<br>You know there used to be bison<br>Gentlemen you may fire at will<br>They say this land won&#8217;t go to waste<br>But you gotta wonder how<br>You know we&#8217;re chopping down the air we breathe<br>As fodder for the cowThat&#8217;s right so we can eat well<br>Yes and starve to death<br>And say there&#8217;s nothing we can do<br>Because we really don&#8217;t want to do a goddamn thing<br>Look I&#8217;m shrugging and so are you<br>We can imagine the straightest of lines<br>But our fingers can&#8217;t control the pen<br>And it&#8217;s this frustration that yields relief<br>As we say we&#8217;re just mortal men<br>And that means we get to torture a chimpanze<br>And infect him with disease<br>Because he screams just like a human child<br>While we study his desperate pleasBut the possibility exists no matter how scary it may seem<br>That paradise was once the world and it wasn&#8217;t just a dream<br>The earth was our heaven and we didn&#8217;t know there were rules for us to break<br>And maybe now we&#8217;ll find out too late what a clever hell we can makeWhoops<br>Aw, whoops<br>Aw, whoopsWhile we&#8217;re on the subject you know my conscience hurts (whoops)<br>And it will not go away (whoops)<br>So please concoct me some pill I can take (whoops)<br>While I think of something clever to say (whoops)<br>So I can look in my mirror made of polished glass (whoops)<br>And find no need to cringe (whoops)<br>And forget that sinking feeling I&#8217;m a dinosaur (whoops)<br>Out on his drunken last binge (whoops)&#8230;from fossil to fossil (whoops)<br>Dust to dust (whoops)<br>I&#8217;ll see you all in the earthly crust (whoops)Whoops (a-daisy)<br>Whoops (a-daisy)<br>Whoops<br>Whoops<br>WhoopsSource:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyricfind.com\/\">LyricFind<\/a>Songwriters: John C. 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