TALKING SWEET BYE AND BYE
© Greg Keeler 1987

Little Bitty Bugs

It's good to be here after drivin' so far.
I damned near burned the tires right off of my car.
I dare you just to step up and touch this radiator lid.
The amazing thing is what got me here
Was a thermos of coffee and a six pack of beer
And a Precambrian ocean of liquifacted squid,

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Along with little bitty bug and diatoms,
All compacted into scum
And left to rot for several hundred million years--
A couple of acres of protozoic plants,
A Pteradactyl or two and a bucket of ants
Just to fill my tank with gas and get me here.

I've got this picture in my mind,
About a quarter billion years on down the line,
Of a creature perched in the top of evolution's tree.
Some cataclysm or other will have wiped us all out,
But he'll be able to thank us for what he'll be singin about,
'Cause the fuel that gets him there's gonna be made out of you and me,

Chorus