Nerd Anthem (I'll Sill Be a Geek After Nobody Thinks It's Chic)

All the cool kids keep enthusiasm rationed
Right down to the last explosive ounce,
But I'd rather indulge my many passions
Even if my squaritude's a little too pronounced.

Perhaps I do not strike you as a geek
Without the horn-rimmed glasses and knee-high argyle socks,
But nerdery is more than wardrobe deep
And I'm a nerd down in my heart and that's where nerdhood rocks.

I'm better aquainted than a good girl aught to be
With Aragorn and Yo-Saf-Bridge and Warf and HAL and Han,
But you don't really know me and my culture don't control me
So don't you pigeonhole me 'cause my phaser's set to stun!

I have been a nerd since long before I could have heard
That bookish girls should look and act a certain way,
And I'll still be a geek when I am utterly antique
Because I do not care what normal people say.

My superpower's draining fun from parties,
But if I am a misfit then I'm in good company
With Auden, Austen, Hawking, Galileo, and Van Gogh,
And countless other weirdos whom you really ought to know.

So stow your expectations: no, I won't fix your PC,
And I don't mind being underrated or ignored.
The world is much too interesting to entertain ennui
And I won't ever play it cool so I won't ever once be bored.

Oh, I have been a nerd since before anyone heard
That pale and scrawny was the latest fashion trend,
And I'll still be a geek after nobody thinks it's chic
Because I don't require approval in the end

In aught-four, D-Kwon's Dance Grooves swept the country,
And suddenly old moon boots were Italian haute couture.
TIME magazine reported that our time had finally come.
I guess they didn't know that we already run the world!

I have been a nerd since my first five syllable word,
And no TV series or movie changes that.
And I'll still be a geek now "Vote for Pedro"'s so last week.
I do not care whether Milan endorses plaid.

I have been a nerd since long before anyone heard
That pale and scrawny was the latest fashion trend,
And I'll still be a geek after nobody thinks it's chic
Because I don't require approval in the end.

I have been a nerd since long before anyone heard
That pale and scrawny was the latest fashion trend.
And I'll still be a geek after nobody thinks it's chic.
You will find that I have nothing to defend.

No, I don't require approval in the end…