52Hz Techno-Totem Love Song
metal, Hyper-eclectic carnival of sound: 52Hz whale-call synths under a swaggering blues-gospel groove. Sexy male lead with smoky vibrato, sultry female gang-chorus stacked in thirds. Verses ride a skanking ska guitar and rockabilly slap bass, cowbell and maracas ticking. Choruses explode into surfy slide guitar, mariachi brass, pan pipes and French horn swells, with bursts of bagpipe and didgeridoo for psychedelic extremes. Middle eight swings into tango-mambo with accordion, violin, and bandoneon-like bouzouki textures, then slams into blast-beat death-metal guitars and hurdy-gurdy drones before a gospel shout outro. Whistling hooks, yodeled ad-libs, harmonica and mouth harp fills, xylophone and steel drum sparkles, glass armonica shimmers, hammer dulcimer arpeggios, pipe organ stabs, and saxophone moans glue it all together. Male vocals; female chorus velvety and bold., blues, violin, male vocals, gospel, native american, ska, swing, mambo, death metal, saxophone, tango, harp, accordion, rockabilly, didgeridoo, mariachi
52Hz Techno-Totem Love Song
metal, Hyper-eclectic carnival of sound: 52Hz whale-call synths under a swaggering blues-gospel groove. Sexy male lead with smoky vibrato, sultry female gang-chorus stacked in thirds. Verses ride a skanking ska guitar and rockabilly slap bass, cowbell and maracas ticking. Choruses explode into surfy slide guitar, mariachi brass, pan pipes and French horn swells, with bursts of bagpipe and didgeridoo for psychedelic extremes. Middle eight swings into tango-mambo with accordion, violin, and bandoneon-like bouzouki textures, then slams into blast-beat death-metal guitars and hurdy-gurdy drones before a gospel shout outro. Whistling hooks, yodeled ad-libs, harmonica and mouth harp fills, xylophone and steel drum sparkles, glass armonica shimmers, hammer dulcimer arpeggios, pipe organ stabs, and saxophone moans glue it all together. Male vocals; female chorus velvety and bold., blues, violin, male vocals, gospel, native american, ska, swing, mambo, death metal, saxophone, tango, harp, accordion, rockabilly, didgeridoo, mariachi
Lyrics
Verse 1
Oh old bard
Staring at your feather and ink
I got a laptop altar
Glowing like a neon drink
You say “child
These gears ain’t sacred”
As you tighten your leather string
I say “grandpa
That flint was cutting edge
When it was the latest thing” (oh yeah)
Chorus
Can’t you bless these new tools of the trade?
Turn the wheel on the fire you made
From the drum in your chest
To the wire in the wall
It’s the same old spell
Just a different call
Can’t you bless these new tools of the trade?
Every byte just another blade
From the bone and the stone
To the code in my hand
It’s the same old song
The same old band (hey!)
Verse 2
You carved stories
Into canyon walls at dawn
I trace legends on a touchscreen
While the coffee’s barely on
You once danced
To the rattle and the rain
I’m still chasing that same wild spirit
Through the flicker of a screen-lit windowpane (woah)
Chorus
Can’t you bless these new tools of the trade?
Turn the wheel on the fire you made
From the drum in your chest
To the wire in the wall
It’s the same old spell
Just a different call
Can’t you bless these new tools of the trade?
Every byte just another blade
From the bone and the stone
To the code in my hand
It’s the same old song
The same old band
Bridge
You raise your eyes
To the smoke and the stars
I raise my mic
To a choir of avatars
But when the crowd goes quiet
And the echo fades thin
It’s just you and me and a story
Waiting to begin
Chorus
So bless these wild new tools of the trade
Let them dance with the fire you made
From the drum in your chest
To the wire in the wall
It’s the same old spell
Answering the same old call
Bless the clay
Bless the chip
Bless the hand and the hand-made
’Cause love is the oldest
And the sharpest blade
In every age
It’s the truest tool of the trade (oh yeah)