Toxicology "Shake It Off"

Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I watched a lot of clips about the Broadway musical, "Hamilton." The show tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S., through hip-hop music. I think music can grab a person's attention and allow them to hear an important message. In the spirit of this, I decided to write lyrics to discuss Toxicology, which I have been studying for the past few years. I hope you like my version of a popular pop song.

(sung to the tune of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off")

Toxicology "Shake It Off"

What’s toxicology? What’s it got to do with me?
That's what people say mmm, that's what people say mmm
It’s the study of chemicals, and their effects on life
At least that's what textbooks say mmm, that's what textbooks say mmm

We keep studying, reading, won’t stop working
Since we got a lot to do and a lot to learn to be toxicologists

Who work for the EPA, A, A, A, A
Colleges or industry, E, E, E, E  
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
We shake it off, we shake it off
We’ll study drugs in lakes, lakes, lakes, lakes
And poisons in foods we make, make, make, make
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
We shake it off, we shake it off

We wanna help people, the earth, and animals
These are the goals you see mmm, these are the goals you see mmm
We treat cells with toxicants (cells with toxicants), and we use animal models (animal models)
To learn what folks don’t know mmm, to learn what folks don’t know mmm

We keep studying, reading, won’t stop working
Since we got a lot to do and a lot to learn to be toxicologists

Who work for the EPA, A, A, A, A
Colleges or industry, E, E, E, E  
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
We shake it off, we shake it off
We’ll study drugs in lakes, lakes, lakes, lakes

And poisons in foods we make, make, make, make
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
We shake it off, we shake it off

We shake it off, we shake it off

We shake it off, we shake it off

We shake it off, we shake it off

We shake it off, we shake it off

We just remember that Paracelsus said, “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”

And then Silent Spring helped us see
The dangers of pesticides like DDT
Disasters like Love Canal made all of us aware

About the need for Tox studies and policies, yea, yea, 

We keep studying, reading, won’t stop working
Since we got a lot to do and a lot to learn to be toxicologists

Who work for the EPA, A, A, A, A
Colleges or industry, E, E, E, E  
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
We shake it off, we shake it off
We’ll study drugs in lakes, lakes, lakes, lakes

And poisons in foods we make, make, make, make
But we still have time to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

We shake it off, we shake it off