Power Law Blues (Tom Carter, 2006)


Studying the world, payin' all my dues
Can't see nothin' but the power law blues
I got the power law blues,
I got the power law blues,
Lord, I got them power law blues


I took the log of this
I took the log of that
Once I even took the log of my hat
I've got the power law blues . . .


I tried log normal
And exponential decay
But really, there was just no way
I've got the power law blues . . .


This old man, sittin' on a rail
She said, "Now even you have got a fat tail!"
I've got the power law blues . . .


Studied turbulence, and Navier Stokes
It's so much fun -- lord it ain't no joke
But it's still the power law blues . . .


I checked my friends, both boys and girls
Found that even there, it's just a small world
It's got the power law blues . . .


Studied economics and high finance
Even Wall Street does the power law dance
They've got the power law blues . . .


Theres information that
And entropy this
Look close enough, and you just can't miss
Them old power law blues . . .


The people 'round me made a new resolution
Gonna put me in the Santa Fe Institution
'Cause I've got the power law blues . . .