(Lord It's Hard To Be Happy When You're Not) Using The Metric System - Atom And His Package

Twelve inches per foot

Two pints in a quart

Why don’t we make it easy?

The English system of measurement must be linked to history

We can use units of ten and convert with ease

Like all the other countries

I am in command

Yes, I am taking a stand

From this disease we must be free

Good God

You’re drunk with your tradition

That has no validity

Well, I’m intoxicated in support of metrics

Come drink a decaliter with me

We want metrics

We want it now

We know we can win

I weigh 170 pounds

That’s 90 kilograms

So metrics can even make you thin

Yardsticks are pathetic

All the cool things are in metrics

For example, here’s just one

I’ve got my nine

Well, that’s nine millimeters

Sounds cooler than my point two something inches gun

The powerful if nonexistant they will call me communist

Or commie scum

But it’s worth it

Canadians will think we’re smart

At least they’ll think we are not as dumb

You’re drunk with your tradition

That has no validity

Well, I’m intoxicated in support of metrics

Come drink a decaliter with me

We want metrics

We want it now

We know we can win

I weigh 170 pounds

That’s 90 kilograms

So metrics can even make you thin

The revolution’s here

We must overcome at last

As we symbolically stick their fucking foot up their fucking ass

Guitar!

You are drunk with your tradition

That has no validity

Well, I’m intoxicated in support of metrics

Come drink a decaliter with me

We want metrics

We want it now

We know we can win

I weigh 170 pounds

That’s 90 kilograms

So metrics can even make you thin