The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Plasticine transfusion
Genetic leak
Mass confusion
Bits of brain
In a strainer
Rubber fetus
In a container
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Singularity is nearing
Reality engineering
I have become the man with a plan!
With an army of toys and a mechanical band!
Ruling the world making everything real!
I'm Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
With dials and switches and knobs and cogs churning away
I manufacture tomorrow a Utopian Playland
Build a new army and rise
And when the saucers arrive they'll get a big toy surprise!
I'm Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel
And with my purpose revealed
I feel I could take over the world
I can't believe I never saw it before
My destiny calls me and I open the door!
Now that I've lost my mind
Leaving myself behind me
Throughout space and time, I find
The alien Illuminati
I have become
An abstract ideal
I have begun
To question what's real
I have become
The one to reveal
I have become
The face of Enlil
I have become
And they shall all kneel
I have become
Before the great Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
I have become the man with a plan
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
With an army of toys and a mechanical band
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ruling the world, making everything real
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
I'm Doctor Steel! Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ahahahahahaha!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ahahahahahaha!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Genetic leak
Mass confusion
Bits of brain
In a strainer
Rubber fetus
In a container
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Singularity is nearing
Reality engineering
I have become the man with a plan!
With an army of toys and a mechanical band!
Ruling the world making everything real!
I'm Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
With dials and switches and knobs and cogs churning away
I manufacture tomorrow a Utopian Playland
Build a new army and rise
And when the saucers arrive they'll get a big toy surprise!
I'm Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel
And with my purpose revealed
I feel I could take over the world
I can't believe I never saw it before
My destiny calls me and I open the door!
Now that I've lost my mind
Leaving myself behind me
Throughout space and time, I find
The alien Illuminati
I have become
An abstract ideal
I have begun
To question what's real
I have become
The one to reveal
I have become
The face of Enlil
I have become
And they shall all kneel
I have become
Before the great Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
I have become the man with a plan
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
With an army of toys and a mechanical band
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ruling the world, making everything real
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
I'm Doctor Steel! Doctor Steel!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ahahahahahaha!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Ahahahahahaha!
Doctor Steel, Doctor Steel!
Lyrics submitted by Onimarus
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Re "The Face of Enlil": In Zecharia Sitchin's "archeology" books (which "Planet X Marks The Spot" establishes as part of Dr. Steel's canon), humans were created by a race of alien gods (the Anunnaki) to work as slaves in African gold mines. Enlil is a Promethean figure, a rebel Anunnaki who helped humans gain our freedom.
See bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/esp_sitchin_0.htm
And re "Singularity is nearing": See singularity.com/qanda.html for the most-likely-relevant definition of "Singularity", since Dr. Steel contributed music to the film adaptation of The Singularity Is Near by its own author Kurzweil.