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Edison worked late each night
It went well until the fading light
Little Thomas Alva Edison said
"I'll grow up to be
A great inventor and I'll make a
Lamp

Mr. Thomas Alva Edison, great inventor
The single man credited for lighting up the world
In the late 18s lies his story arch
Masterminded a think

Midnight Strikes Too Soon

Ellis Paul

A Carnival of Voices

1996

the blame on thomas alva edison
And 60 million lightbulbs telling new york that
It's noon
Ah, midnight strikes too soon
Midnight strikes too soon

She says,

And lightning struck your aerial

And Thomas Alva Edison is crying from his grave

But he can't save us

There's devils in the line, and demons in the power

Click, the sound when you flick the switch
Turn it on
Now let there be light
Oh Lord

There was a man the name of Thomas Alva Edison
Challenged by

Thomas Edison

Ellis Paul

The Hero in You

2012

Imagine you could ride a thought
Like a train at a station that you've just caught
Now imagine that the head you're in
Belongs to Thomas Alva

To catch their noises in the room
       A phonograph from Thomas Alva Edison      
I have so many needful things       
A spider web of fathoms let manjiras

The Edison Museum

They Might Be Giants

No!

2002

the voice of Thomas Alva
Recites a poem on a phonograph
Ghosts float up the stair, like silent moving pictures
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff

the deep
Hoping you decease
Thomas Alva waiting
For your expiration
Your final resignation
Thomas Alva waiting

And while I wait I contemplate
All the weeks

a reliable source of light in the darkness. The credit for inventing the electric light bulb is often given to Thomas Edison, but the truth is that many

On my Edison bitch
Thomas Edison Bitch
This a message to those
Who won't stand for this shit
On our Edison shit
On our Edison shit
Cause the rapture is

(Load the- load the- load the)
Got, drummy mag it don't matter if I am aiming in
(Grrah rrah)
Lead fill yo body
Conducting like Thomas Edison
(Aye, aye,

stress and tension I relive 
Smoking my medicine oh I cant breathe
Call me Thomas Edison electrify her sheets

Buddha inner peace is what i want to achieve

suppose to be
I can be the shoulder you lean on
Tell me why they worried about what we on
Thomas Edison I turn the team on
We gon shine bright put the beam

The Movies

The Statler Brothers

The Best of the Statler Bros. Rides Again, Vol. 2

1980

a picnic Crossin' River Kwai
The movies are great medicine thank you Thomas Edison
For giving us the best years of our lives

Citizen Kane Caine Mutiny

that's tryna kick it
Hit a match, got me coughin', light headed
I'm the littest (yeah)
Lit like Thomas Edison
I count a lot of Benjamin's
I pour a little

a lightbulb moment rise Thomas Edison
Hiding your feelings
Stop being so hesitant
Anger is anger so fuck popping sedatives
Starting like genesis
I am

The Wizard of Menlo Park

Chumbawamba

UN

2004

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go."
Old Thomas Edison mixing up

Aye, yuh
My brain cooking like the stove top, Thomas Edison
Aye
My brain cooking like the stove top, Thomas Edison
Aye, aye, yuh
I'm still peddling,

bulb Thomas Edison 
Shine like a lightbulb incandescent
Shine like a lightbulb Thomas Edison
Holistic medicine i medicate
Met a Sarah met a Heather and i

It's a picnic crossin' River Kwai
The movies are great medicine
Thank you, Thomas Edison
For givin' us the best years of our lives

Citizen Kane, Caine

Thomas Edison
Popping shots right at your skeleton
Yeah no evidence
I'm only worriеd bout these Benjamin's
Yеah these Benjamin's uh

Just let me be (just

Making these storms call me the weatherman (tell em them)
Lightning be hitting like Thomas Edison (I'm better than)
All of you niggas who never

Headband around my head and in my papers is my medicine 
I keep it twisted on the daily 
Thomas Edison 
I spark up then I levitate 
Get into my