Flowers for Algernon - My name is Charlie Gordon (5.5 version)

[Verse 1] [Charlie Gordon] My name is Charlie Gordon. I want to be smart. I tryed so hard on the inkblot test. The white mouse Algernon runs the maze, He is a good mouse, he beats me every days. Dr. Strauss says do not be skared, "Just write down what you think and feel," the doctor man sed. I want to see symbols, I want to spell good, To be like other peoples in the neighborhood. I hope they will use me. [Pre-Chorus] The window is open, the room starts to bend, Something in me is beginning to end... [Chorus 1] Please, make me smart so I can have lots of frends! To talk and to laugh where the loneliness ends! I want to read books, I want to be brite, To see what the other folks see in the light! I'll try very hard, I'll do what you say, Please let the smartness stay! [Verse 2] [Charlie Gordon] The Algernon-Gordon Effect is absolute and clear The Algernon-Gordon Effect is absolute and clear, A calculus of gray matter, the calculus of fear! Artificially induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate, Proportional to the quantity of the advance, our final fate! I surpassed the scholars, I broke through the wall, But the higher the summit, the steeper the fall. The syntax is fraying, the synapses burn, I am watching the decline of everything I learned! [Bridge] I’m losing the Latin! The pages turn grey! I can’t hold the answers I mastered yesterday! Stay with me, hold fast, before I unwind, The dark is reclaiming the house of my mind! NO! [Chorus] Don’t let the dark take the little I’ve made! Hold that last flame while it stutters and fades! The maze keeps turning, the name slips away— We’re only white mice in the ruin and rain. Leave flowers on the grave where the brilliance lies, To cover the shining, to cover the lies. [Outro] [Charlie Gordon] Goodbye, Algernon. I know the maze. I am going away now... Back to the old days. Please... If you get a chance... Put some flowers in the backyard... For the mouse.