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These days one has to stay on top of science and technologyNot easy for a Renaissance romantic such as IWho shies away from medicine, in fact I am most reticentConcerning drugs and docs, but I know whyMy father was the same, a man of very simple livingHe had only kept two products in his bathroom medicine placeOne one shelf Super Poly-Grip for fastening his denturesOn the other shelf was Preparation HOne morning after late night poker stumbling round his powder roomHe needed both, God know what he was thinkingFor what was on one shelf was what he had thought was on the otherAnd for weeks his lower cheeks were grippedWhile all his teeth were shrinkingI prefer a naturopath, massage and acupunctureOr a stress-reducing weekend in the waters of NiagaraBut the scientists have turned my head, ten bucks a pop and off to bedSo down the hatch and up you go, ViagraViagra, ViagraIncredible, impotent magic pillViagra, ViagraFor what would not before now surely willLetras de cancionesAs good as life can ever get, a grown-up guy's Erector SetDemand so high the docs can barely fillOur glances meet across the bar, we wink in sync and there we are"Don't worry," I confide "I'm on the pill."Things were going really great, I started staying up so lateThat like my father, mornings found me stumbling in the looAnd like my daddy did one day, I mixed the bottles up, oy, vayA different sort of circumstance ensuedIt happened in the symphony, my gal and I had gone for freeThrough tickets from a friend in the orchestraI thought I'd planned ahead so well, until a leaky feeling fellI realized I'd ODed on OlestraOlestra, OlestraA minor side effect is diarrheaDiarrhea is not your best friendEven though it comes out okay in the endI jumped right up, or so I thought, but all my efforts were for naughtFor every move I made was in slow motionAnd then it hit me like a wall, I'd mixed 'em up and mixed 'em allAnd chased it with Prozac and Rogaine lotionMy toes were turning stiff and I was struck with oral leakageI grew hair in places I could not conceive of, so to speakI cursed my slurry slothy self and went back to my bathroom shelfAnd tossed 'em all away and took a week to clean my systemViagraOlestraDiarrheaBe on your guardJust one more new trickFor a really big kickThere are some things you should sometimes disregardAnd I never knew that life could be this hard From Letras Mania