Goodbye, Terminal Queue
Date: : 14 Mar 1980 1342-PST
From: : B.BERLIN
Subject: : Goodbye, Terminal Queue
Goodbye, Terminal Queue
Lyrics by Richard Berlin
(To be sung, naturally enough, to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by
Elton John!)
When is it gonna go down?
When is it going to crash?
I should have stayed in my dorm
I can do without all this trash!
You know I've been here forever
Waiting in the stupid queue
I've only waited seven hours
And I'm number sixty-two
Oo,oo,oo
Ah--
Woh,oh,oh
Oh.
Watchin' the CERAS ceiling
It looks like it's getting light
I haven't even got a terminal
And I've been waiting here all night
It's getting so I can't take it
We're all a bunch of nervous wrecks--
Guyana was a cocktail party
Compared to C S 1 O X
Oo, oo, oo,
Ah--
Woh,oh,oh
So goodbye, terminal queue
I'm tired of waiting for you
I can't stand living in CERAS
Im getting out of this ZOO!
Back to my own little bed
To soothe my poor,aching head
I've finally decided my futute lies
Beyond the CERAS queue.
I think I must be going crazy
I just can't believe my eyes
Type 'execute', and it says 'DON'T PLAY
PASCAL WHEN THE LOAD IS HIGH'
Control-t says the load is fifty
And all I want to do
Is forget the day that I ran OPEN
And never see another queue
In my life--
Ah--
Woh,oh,oh
So goodbye, terminal queue
I'm tired of waiting for you
I can't stand living in CERAS
Im getting out of this ZOO!
Back to my own little bed
To soothe my poor,aching head
I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the CERAS queue.
--Richard Berlin
(With the customary apologies to
Elton John.)