Ballad of the Research Fellow Lyrics

Just me and my laptop

Squeezed between a latte and a mop

Dreaming big in the tiny space

Where coffee meets workplace

Promises all gone with the wind

No funding, no projects pinned

Just a scholar with a screen

In a hallway barely seen

Throwing pearls to swine

In this makeshift shrine

Trying to change the world

One coffee at a time

Laugh at my ordeal

But my passion's real

No experts, just me

Still turning the wheel

No budget line, just the grind

Searching for what they won't find

Supervision's grand

If proofreading's what they demand

Coauthorship's a breeze

When all they do is tease

It's just me in this fight

Lighting darkness with my light

Here I stand, no lab, no land

A scholar's heart without a brand

May not have much, but I've got my touch

I'll change this world, no rush, hush hush

Throwing pearls to swine

In this makeshift shrine

Trying to change the world

One coffee at a time

Laugh at my ordeal

But my passion's real

No experts, just me

Still turning the wheel