Orange
Bubble (Princeton University Glee Club Version)
By Drew Fornarola ’06
New Haven has its murders
Philadelphia decays,
And in the town that’s home to Brown
They smoke away the days.
They kill themselves in Ithaca
In Hanover it snows,
There’s violent crime in NYC
In Cambridge egos grow
But nothing ever happens in Princeton.
Of change and conflict we are unaware.
The same few rich guys fail to shut down Prospect Street.
The same six townies sit in Palmer Square.
’Cuz there is never trouble within our orange bubble,
Come back in twenty years
And nothing will have happened in Princeton,
Which I guess is why you’re all in here.
Comparatively speaking
Things are really pretty boring.
What passes for exciting here
Leaves normal people snoring.
But let things go on elsewhere, we’ll just
Keep paying tuition.
We’re satisfied to live inside this
Dull town, it’s tradition
That nothing ever happens in Princeton.
Of the real world we are in the dark.
Policemen here are just for decoration.
Blue light phones constructed for a lark.
‘Cuz there is never trouble within our orange bubble,
Come back in fifty years
And nothing will have happened in Princeton,
Which I guess is why you’re all in here.
Princeton Newsflash! Rob and Jane are through.
Princeton Newsflash! They changed the window at J-Crew.
Princeton Newsflash! Phillip drank too much and spewed,
And Jenny got a new high score in Snood.
Princeton Newsflash! A tree near Nassau Hall fell down.
Princeton Newsflash! Jack’s belt is black and shoes are brown.
Princeton Newsflash! That girl misused a preposition,
She must be sick. Quick! Go call her physician.
Outside terrorists threaten,
Famine wipes out populations,
And people die as tyrants try
To suppress rising nations.
But we don’t have to worry
Because with our cash
We know that we could feed two or three
Small countries in a flash.
So nothing’s gonna happen in Princeton,
Like nothing’s ever happened through the years.
And if we ever really have a problem
We’ll throw money at it till it disappears.
’Cuz there is never trouble within our orange bubble
Come back year after year.
Nothing will have happened in Princeton,
And Glee Club will still be here!
