The professor is building

Something extraordinary

From the first signs

Well I knew he would hide it from me

Clang, clang, rattle, and buzz

There's a helicopter blade

And a bit of a truck



He's got no more quality time

To be going on adventures

Spending mornings on black keys

Using the board

Or finding him in places

That have never been sorta brave

Origami full of grace

The professor is mad

And he's working a feverish pace



Diabolical delicious things

Something is bad

And it's something within me



Do you know?

Do you know?

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta see

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta be

Something destructively daring

Dastardly it's got the best of me



The professor is building

All kinds of devilish device

There's one part

With a singular bit of light

Bang, crash, glitter, and bug

There's a phonographic needle

And a stereo heart



He's got no plans to make an announcement

No preliminary sketches

Or advice to impart in me

One ounce of jealousy

Fifty-seven gallons juvenile delinquency



Super supremacy

I've gotta find an answer

Gotta fashion a skeleton key

Diabolical delicious deeds

Something's bad

And it's shrouded of secrecy



Do you know?

Do you know?

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta see

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta be

Something destructively daring

Dastardly it's got the best of me



(There are very few dimensions

Three...which we call the three planes of space

And a fourth

Time)



The professor is building

Something extraordinary

Behind bars

And a door he won't open for me

Kind words and the barrel of a gun

Will make him come to grips

Make him face up to what he's done



Do you know?

Do you know?

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta see

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta be

Something destructively daring

Dastardly it's got the best of me



Do you know?

Do you know?

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta see

What is he building in there?

Gotta know

Gotta be

Something destructively daring

Dastardly it's got the best of me