Name: Ballad of a Test Tube (1978)
Duration: P00H01M29S
Description: riginally written in the 9th grade to go with the songs Robert Hanson and I were working on. It never got included for some reason, but I think we were focused on the songs we wrote together. It just goes to show that I would write a song about anything! Fender 12 string.

Ballad of a Test Tube (1978)

from Cooler than You: Young and Early Songs II by Stephen Berg

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riginally written in the 9th grade to go with the songs Robert Hanson and I were working on. It never got included for some reason, but I think we were focused on the songs we wrote together. It just goes to show that I would write a song about anything! Fender 12 string.

lyrics

THE TEST TUBE HAS FALLEN AND BROKEN ON THE FLOOR
THE ONCE MIGHTY TEST TUBE IS A TEST TUBE NO MORE
FINELY TEMPERED GLASS, QUITE A MARVELOUS THING
NO MORE DISCOVERIES SHALL IT AGAIN BRING

IT DID A GOOD JOB WHEN IT WAS AROUND
BUT NOW IT'S BEEN SWEPT IN TO A LITTLE MOUND
IT COULD BE RECYCLED, MELTED AND BENDED
BUT IT'S CAREER AS AS A TEST TUBE HAS JUST BEEN ENDED

INTO THE TRASH COMPACTOR, THERE IT GOES!
WHAT IT COMES OUT AS, NOBODY KNOWS.
THE TEST TUBE HAS FALLEN AND BROKEN ON THE FLOOR
THE ONCE MIGHTY TEST TUBE IS A TEST TUBE NO MORE

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from Cooler than You: Young and Early Songs II, released August 19, 2022
Words and music by Stephen Berg

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Stephen Berg Minneapolis, Minnesota

Stephen is a singer, songwriter, and recording artist from Minnesota, He has been active since the early 1990's as a solo artist. Stephen's acoustically driven songs explore the themes of toil, mortality, loss, politics, greed, nature, regrets, faith, and love. He's also a pretty swell guy! ... more

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