Some Lab Nights

Some nights I stay up cleaning all my samples
Some nights I wanna give up
Some nights I wish I leave before the janitor
Some nights I wish for more luck

I followed all the steps, repeated ten times too
And I'm still not sure what I did wrong, Oh..
Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?
Most nights I don't know, anymore...

Oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh,
Oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh

Prep a sample and load it in
Turn up the heat within
Let's grow some nanowires already
Now to check if I got it right
SEM late at night
They're half as long and twice as wide

So here I go again to try one more time...

That's alright...
I found a tv-show to watch tonight
It stops my brain from wondering just why, why, why
Oh, why? Hmmm.....Hmmm...

Well, some nights I wish that my work would end
'Cause I could have some fun with my friends
And some nights I'm scared of failing again
Some nights I just fall asleep, (at my desk...)

I followed all the steps, repeated ten times too
And I'm still not sure what I did wrong, Oh..
Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?
Most nights I don't know... (oh come on)

So this is it
I wear nitrile gloves for this?
Lab coat and glasses for this?
An orange bunny suit for this?
(come on)
When I see wires, when I see, when I see wires, that's all they are
When I see graphene, it's all the same to me, so come on
Oh, come on. Oh, come on. Oh, come on!

Well, wrong time for the phone to ring
Five minutes in, I can't leave again
I started my experiment already...
Make a few more transistors
Hope at least these ones would work
Who the hell would want to measure only noise anyway...

I begin to doubt and question all the choices in my life
When I look in through the microscope...
Man, you won't believe the most amazing things that can come from
Some terrible nights....

Oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh,
Oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh

The other night I had a dream that I just finished my phd
Time to catch up on all the sleep

It's for the best I didn't listen
When the alarm started ringing... Oh...
It's for the best I didn't listen
When the alarm started ringing... Oh...

(to the tune of Some Nights by fun. Parody lyrics written for the purpose of 'fair use' only.)