Late Nights in the Lab - Your Heart Breaks, Clyde Petersen

I was 17, a student at the experimental college

Late nights in the lab on the A/B Roll Edit

Living off Luckies and marijuana

A young party monster, looking for trouble

Driving down the I-5 to get to a show

Or the reservation liquor when the others were closed

Whiskey for my coffee for my early class

Queer Poli-Sci, a little over my head

I remember you a teacher at the experimental college

A tough queer femme with a political edge

Hell bent on the ideals of social justice

Teaching Ecofeminist Documentary Production

But it must have been lonely in that small town

You must have wanted so much more

Just to get the hell out

A single gay bar with a single drag queen

Surrounded by your students

With fake ID’s

We sat that night after class

Late in the lab

I shuffled papers from the students into one neat little stack

And made a note on a list, tapes I loaned out

These were just the little things from the times we hung out

I admit I had a crush that I slowly got over

And I know I had questions like had you been older

In the back of my mind, in the video lab

There’s a knock on the door

You’re holding a 6-pack

Cause I’m 17 at experimental college

Late nights in the lab on the A/B Roll Edit

Living off Luckies and marijuana

A shy queer kid looking for a role model

17 at experimental college

Late nights in the lab on the A/B Roll Edit

Living off Luckies and marijuana

A shy queer kid looking for a role model