My Daddy was a man of letters   My Mama was a head of state   And when they got their chromosomes together   They gave me all of their recessive traits   I'm an embarrassment to evolution   My disposition is unstable and cruel   My blood's a catastrophic blend   'Cause I'm from the shallow end of the gene pool   My IQ is a negative number   I've got a sense of humor no one can stand   And my development was seriously encumbered   By playing music with the Lounge Lizards band   I'm a social director's nightmare   At dinner parties I just babble and drool   It's not easy making friends   When you're from the shallow end of the gene pool   Chorus:   I'm from the shallow end of the gene pool   My x-rays make the doctors laugh   When they tried to chart my EEG waves   Well I wasn't even on the graph   Biological research is booming   They're making breakthroughs like you wouldn't believe   They say genetic engineering in humans   Will someday soon be a reality   I'm gonna get me a DNA transplant   They're gonna rearrange my molecules   Some natural laws will have to bend   To get me from the shallow end of the gene pool