Albert Einstein

Noah Marlowe is a fine fellow and a peachy dancer! Besides being super talented and highly intelligent, he’s a real good kid. I give a tip o’ the hat to his parents, Michael and Dana, for raising such a fine young man. I use the term “young man” knowingly because on many levels Noah is far ahead of his years. And then again, he’s thirteen. It’s a delicate balance to maintain, but the Marlowe family has handled this young prodigy quite well.

Both Michael and Dana are educators, so it seems that they’ve brought their experience to their own family most successfully.

When I first met Noah at age twelve he walked into my apartment in NYC wearing a tee shirt with Albert Einstein’s face plastered across the front. Hanging in my entrance hall was a 4×5 foot painting of Albert as well – my own personal hero. Immediately I knew we had a connection.

Here was a kid who was already a seasoned vet on Broadway who was also deeply interested in quantum physics and seemed to live in a world far above the usual banal clichés of most pre-teens. I took an immediate liking to him.

It was only natural to write the first song for him entitled, Albert Einstein. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be like Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals. So to aspire to be like the generally considered world’s smartest human was a most interesting choice for a 12-year old. In a way, it set the tone for the album.

Albert Einstein

Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

Part of me wants to be just like Albert

Just like Albert

Albert Einstein

If I only had the smarts

If I only had the brain

I’d think a million thoughts

That would bollix the mind

Change the way the future will remember mankind

Leave Sir Isaac Newton and his apple far behind

And drive my fellow physicists insane

Oh part of me wants to be just like Albert

Just like Albert

Albert Einstein

 

Yeah part of me wants to be just like Albert

Wise old Albert

Albert Einstein

If I only had the gift

Of a two hundred IQ

I’d change a lot of things

Yeah I’d know just what to do

I could 3D print my body an’ keep it up on the shelf

Take it down at night an’ have a talkin’ to myself

I might even lose all track of who was who

 

Yeah part of me wants to be just like Albert

My pal Albert

Albert Einstein

 

Yeah, I’d be known as a young savant

I’m not talkin’ no dilettante,

But the sage of quantum physics

Well I’d spend all my time

Dreaming up ‘ventions of the mind

Like zero calorie ice cream

Bicycles that can fly

Traveling on a light beam

And dogs that wouldn’t die

I’d open up a store on-line and call it

Einstein’s Designs And Inventions Of The Mind

And the world would line up at my door

Roaring “More, more,

We Want More!

More of that Einsteinian soul

Yeah, more of that Einsteinian soul!!”

 

So part of me wants to be just like Albert

Good ol’ Albert

Albert Einstein

If I only had the grasp

If I only had the wit

I’d stun the literati

Thinking out of the box

With my hair all out of whack and my two eccentric sox

I would stand among the giants

Oh yeah, that rocks!

And when it came to school, I’d quit!

 

Oh part of me wants to be just like Albert

Ooooo Albert

Albert Einstein

 

Oh Mr. Einstein

Can I call ya’ Albert?

We’ll be hangin’ out!

Shootin’ pool!

Workin’ equations!!

Playin’ video games!!!

Debatin’ the variances of string theory …

Cool!

Hey Albert, let’s take a break n’ go skinny dippin’

He’s my pal …

Al