TurtleFrogMan - Don't Overtighten Your Screws

Don't overtighten your screws, my brothers
Don't overtighten your screws
This is practical advise that you can definitely use
Don't overtighten your screws

We had a minor dribble in our fancy kitchen faucet
The leak was in the sprayer hose and fastened by a screw
It saddens me to tell you that we've no choice now but toss it
I tried everything I could but there was little I could do

This lovely kitchen faucet still so young, its whole life ahead of it
Needlessly sent to the dump prematurely, on top of a pile unsightly
And for what? What possible justification could honestly ever be said of it?
Some over zealous parts assembler screwed the screw too tightly?

Don't overtighten your screws, my brothers
Don't overtighten your screws
This is practical advise that you can definitely use
Don't overtighten your screws

I bought a brand new barbecue to grill whilst sipping a cold one
It had an electric motor that augured wood pellets in fire to burn
The motor stopped working
I bought a replacement and just had to swap out the old one
But I couldn't remove the old motor, on there so tightly the screws wouldn't turn

This barbecue was an engineering marvel and now its just junk
It was expensive too, I might have a case if I ever decided to sue them
And now its sitting in a landfill, another rusting metal hunk
All because the screws were on so tight you couldn't unscrew them

Don't overtighten your screws, my brothers
Don't overtighten your screws
This is practical advise that you can definitely use
Don't overtighten your screws

My sixteen year old buddy Brian suicide committed
His father was a doctor and he broke into his office one night
took a handful of barbiturates and to the afterlife submitted
He and his teenager sweetheart had just broken up after a fight

Brian was funny and witty and smart, his friends were all crushed and they still are
Needlessly sent to his grave prematurely, now under a headstone unsightly
He's rotting away in a graveyard just like my kitchen faucet and grill are
And all because his screws had been screwed on a bit too tightly

Don't overtighten your screws, my brothers
Don't overtighten your screws
This is practical advise that you can definitely use
Don't overtighten your screws

Written by:
BD Shap

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