(Adapted from "Common People")
I come from Ayr, I have a thirst for knowledge.
I study medicine at Marischal College.
And then I Caught her eye.
She told me she was doing History.
I said "Oh, that's a piece of pisstry"
She said "Fine"
And then in 30 seconds time she said:
"I wanna live like medic students, I wanna do what ever medic students do
I wanna work like medic students, I wanna work like medic students like
you"
What else could I say?
I said "I'll try to scare you away."
I took her to the lecture theatre
She listened to a doctor witter 'bout brains
And legs and hearts and veins.
I told her to get lots more Highers.
She just laughed and said "Nice try."
I said "Yeah. I don't think you really want to be in here."
Are you sure . . .
You wanna live like medic students, you wanna see whatever medic students
see?
You wanna work like medic students, you wanna work like medic students like
me?
But she didn't understand. She just smiled and held my hand.
Cut a body up for fun. Spend your life in trying to learn.
Take some notes and wield a knife, pretend you never had a life.
But you'll never get it right, cos when you're staying up at night.
Doing innervation of the chest, if you'd stuck with Arts you'd do much
less.
You'll never work like medic students, you'll never do what medic students
do.
You'll never learn like medic students, or watch your social life slide out
of view.
And you can dance and drink and screw because you've nothing else to do.
Learn along with the medic students, study hard and it might just get you
through.
Moan along with the medic students, moan along even though we're moaning at
you.
And the easy things that you do. Because we think that Arts ain't cool.
Like some mould growing in the corner, when we're doctors, we'll leap upon
you.
Look out. We'll cut your appendix out.
Cause medics all hate the artists.
Especially because they all have so little to do.
We're jealous, but we know what we want and we'll see it all through.
We'll never understand how it feels to live your life
With no work to do all day, and just four years for your degree.
You are amazed that we persist.
But then we qualify and then you find out why.
Cut a body up for fun, spend your life in trying to learn.
Take some notes and wield a knife, pretend you never had a life.
But you'll never get it right, cos when you're staying up at night.
Doing innervation of the chest, if you'd stuck with Arts you'd do much less,
oh.
You'll never work like medic students, you'll never do what medic students
do.
You'll never learn like medic students, or watch your social life slide out
of view.
And you can dance and drink and screw because you've nothing else to do.
Wanna live like medic students like me?
Original author:Jarvis Cocker
Author of amended version unknown