What is Lab For?
Music (What's This Life For?) by Creed
Lyrics by Tom Poon

hurray for the child that makes it through
this lab, because it's long
and they don't know what to do
they haven't read the prelab
and now they're really screwed
because their yield is bad
and their melting point's off

CHORUS:
What's is lab for? (x4)

I see your flask, it's kind of gray
I see your product slip away
your yield is low, I share your pain
but what's the purpose of continuing?
you're last to leave again
as you ask yourself

CHORUS

the purpose of lab
although it sounds really bad
but as David Sadava* once said, "it's to get out"

I said the purpose of lab
although it sounds kinda sad
but as David Sadava once said, "the purpose is to get out, get out. GET OUT!"

I said the purpose of lab
I know it sounds really bad
but as David Sadava once said, "the purpose is to get out"


*David Sadava is a Professor of Biology in the Joint Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges.