Jonathan Coulton - I Feel Fantastic - ASL Song

"I Feel Fantastic" by Jonathan Coulton, performed in sign language by Stephen Torrence. This one is December Song Week #6 and it goes out to all my pill junkie homies. Lyrics/gloss below. Enjoy! I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me MORNING PILL HIT, I AWAKE I take a wake up pill and fill with energy ENERGY PILL-TAKE, AWAKE! I power on hard and I check my messages COMPUTER TURN-ON, MESSAGE LOOK-FOR But I dont have any messages BUT NOT HAVE MESSAGE I take a driving pill and head to my car DRIVE PILL-TAKE, CAR GET-IN I drive around a bit cuz work isnt very far [CAR CIRCLING] WORK [RIGHT-THERE] I call my phone and I check my messages MY PHONE, MESSAGE WAIT-FOR But I dont have any messages BUT NOT HAVE MESSAGE All I know is driving on drugs feels better when theyre prescription I KNOW DRIVING WITH PRESCRIPTION DRUG BETTER All I know is the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful I KNOW WORLD BEAUTIFUL, WORLD REALLY BEAUTIFUL And I feel fantastic I FEEL FANTASTIC And I never felt as good as how I do right now BEFORE NEVER FELT-LIKE NOW Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day BUT PONDER, MAYBE ONE-DAY PAST When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now. I FEEL [SAME-THEN-AND-NOW], NOW++ [repeats] Work is anything but quiet these days RECENTLY WORK BUSY I try to medicate my concentration haze CANT FOCUS, CONFUSION, PILL-TAKE++ I can feel the day unfold in front of me PAPER [PILING UP], PUSH ASIDE So I take the stairs and hit the gym STAIRS [ASCEND] WORK OUT The phone is ringing when I get to my desk FINISH, RETURN, MY PHONE [RINGING] What was a stingings now a sharp pain in my chest [CHEST STING] BECOME PAIN! So I take a Calminex and just chill PAIN PILL-TAKE, RELAX And then its time for lunch again FINISH, FOOD TIME All I know is work is easy when you dont stress out about deadlines I KNOW WORK EASY IF [PAPER PILE] IGNORE All I know is I take my medicine I always take my medicine I KNOW PILL-TAKE ALWAYS PILL-TAKE++ [chorus] Sometimes Id like to slow things down SOMETIME I WANT LIVE SLOW Enjoy the moment NOW ENJOY But when I look the moments gone BUT LOOK, NOW [MOVE AWAY, GONE] Work is over but I cant stay to work late WORK FINISH, BUT CANT STAY Got to leave and get ready for my second date MUST PREPARE FOR MY 2ND DATE With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy WITH GIRL PRETTY, PHARMACY Right in the prescription line LINE MEET-HER-THERE I take a pill for my social anxiety RELATIONSHIP ANXIOUS PILL-TAKE I get a table and a nice bottle of Chablis TABLE ARRANGE, WINE BOTTLE [SET-UP] Now its getting late and theres still no sign of her [HOURS PASS] LOOK-FOR-HER, NOTHING I have another glass of wine WINE POUR, DRINK All I know is the wine lasts longer when you dont gotta share it with someone I KNOW MORE WINE IF NOT [POUR-FOR-TWO] All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill I KNOW STEAK TASTE-BETTER IF I STEAK PILL-TAKE [chorus]