Thomas: Not Dead Yet
Original song: Not Dead Yet
Performed by The Styx
From the album "Edge Of The Century"
Written by Ralph Covert
Parodied by vvoltaire
 

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Thomas: Not Dead Yet
Original song: Not Dead Yet
Performed by The Styx
From the album "Edge Of The Century"
Written by Ralph Covert
Parodied by vvoltaire
 
 
 
Well I was drawn too late to be in Century,
I don't know Marcus [1] and I never fought Prozen.
No, I’m standin' with an AI, it’s R2D2’s bastard son.
Go out, get drunk, mock Van, have fun,
I don't got an organoid, I don't drive an Atak Kat.[2]
Give me half a chance 'cause I'm not dead yet!


I'm not dead yet!
No no, I'm not dead yet!
In my ‘Bison fighting with the wall against my back,
You better get a bigger zoid—I'm not dead yet!


I've been machine-gunned,[3] Parti-gunned,[4] hijacked,[5] left for dead,[6]
Dive-bombed, missiled strong,[7] nuclear warheaded.[8]
Ran from an organoid—with lit dynamite![9]
Shot by a Genosaur[10] & caught in a ‘Sniper’s sight,[11]
I'm runnin’ from a gravi-well with three legs left—
Well, I can still fall, and I'm not dead yet![12]


I'm not dead yet!
No no, I'm not dead yet!
In my ‘Bison fighting with with a mean Megalomax,
You better get a bigger zoid—I'm not dead yet!


Hiltz, you're bigger? Tougher? Meaner? Rougher?
Dirtier and uglier and sneakier and trickier,
You wanna go hijack my zoid, then mess with its core?
"Command system freeze," make it go start a war.
I’m tied up on the floor, and that time bomb is set, well,
Try that again, ‘cause I'm not dead yet![13]


I'm not dead yet,
No no, I'm not dead yet!
I'm a sleeper zoid waitin’ in an Ancient Zian wreck,[14]
You better get a bigger zoid,
You better get a kickass zoid!


[Wild (but short) guitar solo. Yeah, baby!]


Well there's Riese down in her ‘Sworder and there's Hiltz up in his Whale,[15]
And that damned maverick wants to get me by my tail,[16]
And the Stinger is stingin’,[17] like those Ghosts of Trinity,[18]
Riese brainwashed my brother—he’s comin’ after me![19]
Soon-to-be Empress went and hit me with her hat.[20]
Some day they’re gonna get me but I'm (not dead yet)


I'm not dead yet!
I'm not dead yet!
I'm a sleeper zoid waitin’ in an Ancient Zian wreck,
You better get a bigger zoid,
To beat my ‘lectric organoid![21]
Not dead yet,
Not me!
I’m not dead yet!
I'm a mad zoid fighting with the wall against my back
You better get a bigger zoid
Not dead yet,
Not dead yet!
Not dead yet.
Megalomax!
Not dead yet,
Yeah!
Not dead yet,
In my ‘Bison, fighting with mean Megalomax,
You better get a bigger zoid, I-I-I’m
Not dead yet….
Whew!


[1] Remember Marcus? That guy with the red soulpatch mark, Fiona-esque hair points, and disturbing rivalry with Karl? Yeah, he died halfway through the first season. So we never saw Thomas meet him.
[2] Atak Kats are lame and annoy my inner grammarian. But they slant-rhyme, so I used them in the song.
[3] Pick an episode with Thomas. I'm sure the Dibison got machine gunned in it.
[4] Parti-gun = = particle gun (cannon) = = "Damn you, Raven!"
[5] Hiltz hijacked the Dibison in The Black Lightning.
[6] Raven left him for dead in The Emperor's Holiday. Hiltz left him for dead in The Black Lightning. I guess SOS was having an "off day" during those episodes.
[7] Okay, so I don't recall him being dive-bombed. He's had plenty of missiles shot at him, though.
[8] Again, so maybe there weren't any nuclear warheads, but Riese nearly caused an explosion in a nuclear reactor, so it counts.
[9] This came from the rescue attempt that went wrong in The Invisible Enemy. A-for-effort, Zeke, but F-for-execution.
[10] Again, damn you, Raven!
[11] I'm sure he was in the sniper's sights sometime during Phantom.
[12] Gravi-well = = Gravity well caused by the gravity cannon in The Final Battle (which wasn't). "Fall" comes from his bacon being saved when Van shot a crater beneath him.
[13] In case you can't tell, this entire section is about the episode The Black Lightning. Hiltz knocks Thomas out, Ambient fuses with the Dibison's core and sends it to Guygalos, Thomas ends up tied up on the floor next to a time bomb. Like I said, that was one of SOS's "off days."
[14] It's a metaphor. Oh, and "Zian" isn't technically right, but it fit the scansion. I've done a lot of stuff like that.
[15] 'Sworder = = Double Sworder; Whale = = Whale King
[16] The maverick, of course, is Raven. And I'm referring to the Dibison's tail, you pervert.
[17] "Stinger" can either be interpreted as the Death Stinger or the effeminate sadist we all love. It works both ways.
[18] Ghosts of Trinity = = Triple Cheese Toasts. I mean, Trinity Ghosts. ^_^
[19] Reference to The Devil's Maze, of course.
[20] That was Lady Marianne in the beginning of The Emperor's Holiday.
[21] 'lectric organoid = = electric organoid = = BEEK