Текст песни: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman: Revenge + перевод

SEDGEWICK

Look at me: a ten times Nobel Prize loser!

In 1938 I earned my PHD

With a masterful hypothesis

In colloid chemistry

I was getting set to publish

When much to my surprise

Richard T. Zsigmondy won the Nobel Prize

And for what? For work on the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions!

My field! My colloids!

In 1949 I thought I had it made:

My work in light diffusion

Put my colleagues in the shade

But then my hopes were shattered

By some Hindu in Ceylon

They gave the prize in physics

To Sir Chandra V. Raman

For work in light diffusion -- the Raman effect! Damn it, it should have been

the Sedgwick effect!

Revenge, revenge

I’ll have it on them all

No single slight will I forget

I’ll show no mercy you can bet

They’ll all get theirs the day I get

Revenge

That dopey Wolfgang Pauli

For his work in fission

I used to help that punk

With long division

And Fermi for his brilliant

Neutron system

That bum, he wouldn’t know a neutron

If it kissed him

Ah, but the thing that really

Drove me to a fury:

They gave the prize to Harold Urey

The shocking thing about the matter is

My heavy hydrogen was heavier than his

Revenge, revenge

Oh, it will taste so sweet

A misanthrope, yes, I might be

An outcast of society

Think what you like, but just give me

Revenge, revenge!

It really goes way back

My parents hated me --

You see, my birth surprised them

Mom was sixty-three

Nanny smelled of Clorox

And boarding school was hell

I’ll show you Dad, and Mom and Nanny

And Alfred B. Nobel

Revenge, revenge

That’s all I live for now

I’ll make them wince and cringe and cry

I spit in their collective eye

I’ll have one thing before I die --

And I’ll have it by destroying the world’s symbol of Goodness — Superman!

Revenge!

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