Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He [bad word]  but he's too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(2x)
Entropy's fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

They have him sealed behind locked doors,
amending here from fighting cold wars.
Invented steam sails and taught them to fight
and they stopped things to go bump in the night,
all his [bad word] hidden for life,
his genius's top secret even from his wife,
an aged wrinkled genius his memory fading,
his fate, his creations, the government evading

(2x)
Entropy's fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He [bad word]  but he's too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(3x)
Entropy's fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating