The Senses Song
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"The Senses Song" is a song from the animated cartoon series The Animaniacs sung by Yakko, Wakko and Dot. The song is a listing of senses. Although the description seems simplistic, the result is actually quite complex. The song begins with five physiological senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) and a sixth sense. At this point, Yakko says 'And now the other senses!' signalling a transition from the typical definition of 'senses' to other usage of 'senses'. The rest of the song is a list of other usage of 'sense' and homophones of 'sense' (cents / scents) and 'senses' (census).
[edit] Lyrics
Yakko:
- The sense of sight
- Is what guides us right
- When we go out on walks.
Wakko:
- The sense of smell's
- The way you tell
- That you need to change your socks.
Dot:
- The sense of touch
- Is what hurts so much
- When you bang your toe on the bed.
Yakko:
- The sense of hearing is something good
- 'Cause if a tree falls in the wood
- Would there be a sound? You bet there would
- If it landed on top of your head
All:
- Your head
- If a tree lands on top of your head!
Wakko:
- The sense of taste
- Affects your waist
Yakko:
- Which makes five senses in all.
Dot:
- There's a sixth sense, too, but it's hard to explain
- It's a psychic connection inside of your brain
- So you can understand people like Shirley MacLaine
Yakko:
- Who wear crystals they bought in the mall
All:
- The mall
- Who wear crystals they bought in the mall!
Yakko:
- And now the other senses!
Dot:
- There are scents you can smell
- Like cologne from Chanel
- Or the scents of expensive perfume.
Yakko:
- There are scents of flowers
- We hope overpowers
- The kitty box next to your room.
- Phew!
Wakko:
- There's a sense of pride
- You have deep down inside
Yakko:
- When you practice a sense of fair play.
Dot:
- There are dollars and cents that you pay at a toll
Yakko:
- Or the census man who is taking a poll
Wakko:
- And a sense of confusion; we're out of control
All:
- And they really should take us away
- Away
- They really should take us away!
Dot:
- There's a sense of humor
- A sense of doom, or
- A sense of awe, sense of timing.
Yakko:
- The sense of a word
- A sense of absurd
- Like trying to do all this rhyming!
Dot:
- There's incense
Wakko:
- And horse sense
Yakko:
- And common sense, it's true.
Dot:
- Sense of wonder, sense of beauty
Wakko:
- Sense of honor, sense of duty
Yakko:
- A sense of doubt, a sense of danger
Dot:
- A sense of fear, when you meet a stranger
Wakko:
- A sense of style, a sense of worth
Yakko:
- A sense of direction for knowing the earth
All:
- A sense of dread as we're singing this song
- That it's starting to turn out completely all wrong
- And it's time that we end it because it's too long
- 'Cause it just doesn't make any sense
- Nonsense
- This song doesn't make any sense!
