Gadzooks

Gadzooks is the 9th track and the 5th non-transition track on View-Monster.

Gadzooks
Song
Artist	Lemon Demon
Released	2008
Written by	Neil Cicierega
Appears on	View-Monster
Sung by	Neil Cicierega
Duration	02:39
Tempo	121
Genre	Rock
Language	English
Links:	Bandcamp Needlejuice Remaster YouTube Spotify

Description

The song is written from the perspective of someone comedically questioning the sanity of those around them. In an annotation within the album's HTML, Neil said this regarding the gibberish phrases sung during each chorus of the song:

'Each of these goofy little terms is a Ye Olde English "minced oath"-- a masked exclamation of blasphemy, similar to modern expressions such as "Holy cow!" or "Mother falcon!"'

Lyrics

Everywhere I look I always see
people who are crazier than me.

Gadzooks!
Gadzooks!
You’re all such crazy kooks!
A bunch of flaky flukes.
You’re giving me the spooks.

Everyone’s gone funny in the head.
I went outside and this is what I said…

I said:
Egad!
Egad!
I think you’ve all gone mad!
Gone nuts at least a tad.
It’s really kind of sad.

How can people so bizarre exist?
(How can people so bizarre exist?)
They should go to a psychiatrist.
(They should go right now.)

By Jove!
By Jove!
You’ve formed a crazy drove,
and on the streets you rove!
It’s something that I loave…
…loathe.

Gorblimey!
Gorblimey!
The situation’s getting slimy!
And I am just so stymied!
I can’t think of a rhymie.

Gee Willikers!
Gee Willikers!
You’re all mentally illikers!
No, this is not a drillikers!
Okay, this is getting sillikers.

Odds-bodkins!
Odds-bodkins!
Don’t know what that means.

Gadzooks!
Gadzooks!
You’re all such crazy kooky kooks!

Trivia

• Odds-bodkins is not a phrase. Sillikers, drillikers, and illikers are also not words.
• This was the only song from View-Monster to be leaked to any extent, unlike Dinosaurchestra, which suffered numerous leaks prior to its release.
• The aforementioned leaked version of this song is noticeably more similar to Gadzooks (Original Version) which can be heard as a bonus track on View-Monster.
• Another version of this song was released as part of the 2024 rarities dump, known as gadzooks.mp3