[Intro: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
I'm gonna ask you, are you ready to demo this jam?
Yes!
Why don't you press that beat button? Yeah. "An Antidote for Strychnine"
1, 2, 3
[Intro: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Dig around in the garbage (Garbage)
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
Scrape a winter's worth of salt deposits
From the rusty frame of my car
Ask the experts, maybe they'll know
[Verse 2: John Darnielle]
Call up my teacher in Cambridge
See what he remembers
Throw white phosphorus in the fireplace
Look for clues in the embers
Call the hotline, give them a phony last name
[Chorus: : John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Tryin' to find (Tryin' to find)
An antidote for strychnine (1, 2, 3, 4)
Tryin' to find (1, 2, 3, 4)
An antidote for strychnine (1, 1, 2)
[Verse 3: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Time's running short (1, 2, 3, 4)
Always seems to run shorter
Have some supplies sent
From up just past the northern border
Keep a line out to the people who take the long view
[Verse 4: John Darnielle]
Only share my research
With sick lab rats like me
Trapped behind the beakers
And the Erlenmeyer flasks
Hidden from the world, I may not ever get free
But I may one day
Chorus
[Chorus: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Tryin' to find (Tryin' to find)
An antidote for strychnine (Strychnine)
Try to find (Tryin' to find)
An antidote for strychnine (Nine!)
[Bridge: John Darnielle]
So many suffering from the same affliction
Coming up on the breakthrough
The clock's ticking
[Verse 5: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Dig down amongst my calculations
Check my map
Up there on the surface
Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath
Stem the tide, stem the tide
They're calling down for reinforcements
[Chorus: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
Tryin' to find (Tryin' to find)
An antidote for strychnine (An antidote for strychnine)
Try to find (Tryin' to find, tryin' to find)
An antidote for strychnine (Antidote for strychnine)
[Outro: John Darnielle and Roman Darnielle]
That was some vocals right there. Yeah
Yes!
Spacebar. Spacebar right there
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