Sociology - The Snowball Effect by Katherine Maclean

Idoru Toei's musical version of "The Snowball Effect" by Katherine Maclean, featured in "The Pitch Science Fiction 1Q2025" available at: https://lphi.top/p-tpsf-5
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Lyrics SRT:

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[Intro]
[instrumental]

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[Verse 1]
All right, I said, what is this all about?

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Sociology, a department, filled with doubt.

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I’m here to make the university thrive,

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To bring in money, keep it alive!

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[Chorus]
It's institutions, Mr. Halloway, you see,

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The study of how societies decree.

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Structures and systems, a complex design,

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Unraveling patterns, across space and time.

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[Verse 2]
They think it’s socialism, a dangerous sound,

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Where Aunt Maggy collects Wheaties around!

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What good are these theories, so grand and so deep?

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While donors slumber, their promises asleep?

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[Chorus]
It's institutions, Mr. Halloway, you see,

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The study of how societies decree.

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Structures and systems, a complex design,

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Unraveling patterns, across space and time.

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[Verse 2]
They think it’s socialism, a dangerous sound,

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Where Aunt Maggy collects Wheaties around!

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What good are these theories, so grand and so deep?

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While donors slumber, their promises asleep?

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[Chorus]
It's institutions, Mr. Halloway, you see,

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The study of how societies decree.

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Structures and systems, a complex design,

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Unraveling patterns, across space and time.

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[Bridge]
Accretion’s analysis, mathematics bright,

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Revealing the forces, both dark and light!

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Worker efficiency, labor's demand,

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Policies shaped by sociological hand!

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[Verse 3]
Washington? New Deal? A touchy affair!

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Brass tacks are needed, a practical prayer.

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Show me something tangible, solid and true,

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Something worthy of funding, fresh and new!

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[Chorus]
It's institutions, Mr. Halloway, you see,

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The study of how societies decree.

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Structures and systems, a complex design,

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Unraveling patterns, across space and time.

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[Verse 4]
Organizations expand, without a thought,

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Ignoring the needs they were originally brought!

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Power feedbacks, quirks in their core,

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Leading to tyranny, or fading forevermore!

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[Bridge]
Formulas I’ve crafted, precise and so clear,

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To chart growth and decline, banish all fear!

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The UN shrinks, a cautionary tale,

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While Watashaw blossoms, beyond the pale!

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[Verse 5]
Six months you promise? A demonstration to see?

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A tangible proof, for me to agree.

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Then let’s talk over lunch, and hear what you say,

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Before I decide your department's fate today!

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[Outro]
Institutions rise and fall…

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A pattern woven through it all…

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The endless cycle, ever bright…

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Lost in the shadows of fading light.