The Statin Skank*
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An Adipose-Gracilis partnership 2026. North Cambridge, UK.
Edutainment ditty pertaining to the dangers of poor quality diet and lack of exercise.
And touching on the discovery of the harmful grapefruit-statin biochemical interaction.

Lyrics and ‘Shuttleworth Homage Concept’ By James Gracilis
‘Vocals’, music and ‘production’ by Frank Adipose

90 Bpm. A major.

Dry stems provided. Any re-work very welcome, including but not limited to instrument solos, backing vocals, proper playout, phat soundz, surf and cocktail noises,
complete re-recording of vocal line so it doesnt have the faux and rubbish ‘somewhere north of Leeds’ accent.

Native Instruments Session Horns, Kontakt Library.
UVI Emulation II Plus, FM Suite.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skank_(dance)

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Lyrics By James Gracilis 2026

[Verse1]
I drove to the chippy, to get me my tea,
While it were cooking, it seemed to be,
To be a perfect opportunity…..

…to pop to the chemist so I could plea
for statins I needed desperately -
woof, what a juicy irony!

[Grumble]

[Verse2]
Breakfast is broken, it seems of late,
Grapefruit’s not great fruit, I lost a mate,
Round yellow ritual, a shame it were habitual.

I need something different, with my Special K,
I’m down to four of me five-a-day.
Surely there must be a better way.

[Chorus]
It’s the Statin Skank, and if I may be Frank,
life plays a cruel prank,
It’s the Statin Skank, I’ve got salt to thank,
For my high blood pressure.

[Middle8 and low quality joke, ba-dum-tiss.]

[Chorus reprise]

[Verse3]

To avoid extra stress I weren’t going to bicker
when Doc said “It would be quicker
to take the Statins, than it’d be to reel-it-in.”

It werent a rock life and lots of hard liquor
that took their toll on me ‘dicky ticker’:
- it were the chippy tea and tikka.

[Chorus reprise]

[Various sounds of exertion-originating discomfort]

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Notes and Explanatory lexicon
chippy UK chip-shop, purveyors of traditional fish-n-chip suppers
tea informal evening meal cf. dinner.
Special K popular breakfast cereal
statin blood pressure remedial drug/medicament.
bicker argue
reel-it-in exercise self-control
dicky ticker diseased heart
tikka abbrev (chicken) tikka masala, favoured curry dish in UK.
five-a-day government-instigated fruit consumption suggestion

"Its The Statin Skank"
by Frank Adipose and James Gracilis

2026 - Licensed under
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