He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Ooh ooh ooh ee-ooh ooh ooh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah-ooh ooh
Ooh
I'm always thinkin' 'bout it
I don't know what I'd do without it
I love, I really love
My pancreas
My spleen just doesn't matter
Don't really care about my bladder
But I don't leave home without
My pancreas
My pancreas is always
There for me
Ah-ooh
Secreting those enzymes (bap bap bap)
Secreting those hormones too
Metabolizing carbohydrates
Just for me
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ooh
My pancreas attracts every other
Pancreas in the universe
With a force proportional
To the product of their masses
And inversely proportional
To the distance between them
Woo woo woo woo
Don'tcha you know you gotta
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the duodenum
Won'tcha
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the duodenum
Insulin, glucagon
(Won'tcha flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin' from the islets of Langerhans
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Insulin, glucagon
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin' from the islets of Langerhans
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Lipase, amylase, and trip sin
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow, flow flow, pancreatic juice)
They gonna help with our digestion
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenium)
Lipase, amylase, and trip sin
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
They gonna help with our digestion
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
[Insulin, glucagon]
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
Ah ah ah ah ah ah-ooh ooh
Ooh
I'm always thinkin' 'bout it
I don't know what I'd do without it
I love, I really love
My pancreas
My spleen just doesn't matter
Don't really care about my bladder
But I don't leave home without
My pancreas
My pancreas is always
There for me
Ah-ooh
Secreting those enzymes (bap bap bap)
Secreting those hormones too
Metabolizing carbohydrates
Just for me
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba
My pancreas
Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba
My pancreas
Ooh
My pancreas attracts every other
Pancreas in the universe
With a force proportional
To the product of their masses
And inversely proportional
To the distance between them
Woo woo woo woo
Don'tcha you know you gotta
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the duodenum
Won'tcha
Flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice
Flow, flow, into the duodenum
Insulin, glucagon
(Won'tcha flow, flow, flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin' from the islets of Langerhans
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Insulin, glucagon
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Comin' from the islets of Langerhans
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Lipase, amylase, and trip sin
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow, flow flow, pancreatic juice)
They gonna help with our digestion
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenium)
Lipase, amylase, and trip sin
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
They gonna help with our digestion
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
[Insulin, glucagon]
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
(Lipase, amylase, and tripsin)
(Insulin, glucagon)
(Won'tcha flow flow flow, pancreatic juice)
Golly-gee I love my pancreas
(They gonna help with our digestion)
(Comin' from the islets of Langerhans)
(Flow flow, into the deuodenum)
Can't you see I love my pancreas
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I love this song! Haha, it actually helped me in my college Nutrition class. We were talking about the digestive system and my professor starts on the pancreas. He goes "The pancreas secretes insulin and what other hormone?" In my head I was singing this song and said "glucagon" I never actually admitted where I had learned it. Oh, and it helped me on the final exam too. So I have a special place in my heart for this song