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This is a song about an experiment performed on some dolphins to test their linguistic abilities. Through a series of flashing lights and some other science stuff, scientists were able to determine that dolphins have words for direction and color

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Doris and Buzz are alone today
Separated from each other by a 3 inch wall of glass
They live their lives all alone
They live their lives all alone

Lights flash around them red and green
They sense each other but they've never seen
What keeps them apart
This doesn't make much sense;
Who's testing whose intelligence?

It's such a sticky situation
When you're right, you're wrong
If you could just be patient
They'll help you along, oh
Doris and Buzz send their love to you

Doris and Buzz are holding hands in their minds
While science finds what science
Could have found in another place
Someplace where people live alone
Someplace where people live alone

(Such a strange situation
Patient like the dolphins' love)

Nobody cared about the dolphins,
Living underwater
With mothers and fathers
And lesbian daughters
Graceless wasted
Eons of human time.