Things you find everywhere
On the ground and in the air
Things you find everywhere
They are widespread, inescapable, prevalent and rife
You’ll see they are ubiquitous as you live your life
They’re omnipresent, universal, and pervasive
You can’t avoid these things even if you are evasive
They are everywhere, they are everywhere
by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Agros Means Field in Greek
Agros means “field” in Greek
Ager is the word you’d use if Latin’s what you speak
The science of growing food out in a field
Is called agriculture, it can increase your yield
Crop and soil science dates back to Deuteronomy
Today we call that science the field of agronomy
You’ll live out on a farm if a farmer you are marryin’
The life that you’ll be living is described as agrarian
To sell what grows in a field like corn and peas and such
You ought to study agribusiness, it’s why we have so much
Change the G to C in ager and you get acre
Nearly 5,000 square yards, mowing that’s a back breaker
Agros means “field” in Greek
Ager is the word you’d use if Latin’s what you speak
by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review
Ager is the word you’d use if Latin’s what you speak
The science of growing food out in a field
Is called agriculture, it can increase your yield
Crop and soil science dates back to Deuteronomy
Today we call that science the field of agronomy
You’ll live out on a farm if a farmer you are marryin’
The life that you’ll be living is described as agrarian
To sell what grows in a field like corn and peas and such
You ought to study agribusiness, it’s why we have so much
Change the G to C in ager and you get acre
Nearly 5,000 square yards, mowing that’s a back breaker
Agros means “field” in Greek
Ager is the word you’d use if Latin’s what you speak
by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Too Many Words
You're using too many words
The words you use are too abundant
You repeat yourself, you are redundant
When you start to speak we get an overdose
Of the words that you are speaking because you are verbose
You talk so long we get distracted
Do your speeches have to be protracted?
When we complain you say that it's unfair of us
But you just will not stop talking, you're so garrulous
For your diarrhea of the mouth there is no fix
You just go on and on, you are prolix
What we're trying to say in case you haven't heard
Is that you are just using way too many words
You're using too many words
by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review
The words you use are too abundant
You repeat yourself, you are redundant
When you start to speak we get an overdose
Of the words that you are speaking because you are verbose
You talk so long we get distracted
Do your speeches have to be protracted?
When we complain you say that it's unfair of us
But you just will not stop talking, you're so garrulous
For your diarrhea of the mouth there is no fix
You just go on and on, you are prolix
What we're trying to say in case you haven't heard
Is that you are just using way too many words
You're using too many words
by Tom Meltzer ©The Princeton Review
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