BAROMETRIC LOVE
by the Flat Astronauts
TIME 05:28
 
LYRICS
I'm feeling dirty baby, 'cause the pressure's rising.
My baby came to me with a mirrored light.
She bent on over and I switched on the red light.
She was my shining knight in armor. She taste delicious and

she make the pressure go up.

 
Barometric Love, Barometric Love
The pressure get higher. Barometric Love.
 
Better wipe your mirror. I got the gloss.
My fine little sheba has found what she lost.
It was a ring to take you to another dimension.

It was a ring, It was a ring with

Barometric Love. Barometric Love.
Watch my temperature rise.
 
I watch the dial spin, I watch it spin in a circle.
Into the red zone, it's a pressure gauge.

With Barometric Love. Barometric Love.

Barometric Love. Barometric Love.
 
Now give it to me soft. Softer. Softer. Softer
 
You got skin like cotton; I feel it between my fingers,

and it's just a little fuzzy. Cause I got my love. Got my love.

 
It is so sweet. And the pressure goes up and the dials in the red zone.
 
I got that pressure going up in the red zone.
She's in the mirror with Barometric Love.

You can't have me without the cotton.

 
Let me dress your wound, let me tie you up,
let me put a band aid on your cut.
If you shove me tightly, Barometric Love,

You'll be in fear like a dab of

pressure.
 
Barometric Love. Barometric Love.
Barometric Love. Barometric Love.
Barometric Love.
 
RECORDED
Performed by the FLAT ASTRONAUTS
Written by the FLAT ASTRONAUTS
Recorded May 1999, Junkroom Studios, NYC
Appears on the full length Album: BAROMETRIC LOVE
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PERSONEL
C W Cobalt: Lyrics, vocals
Alec Haavik: Sax
Bus DDTMilklithin: Bass
Bill Hamilton: Guitar
Aib Gomez-Delgado: Drums
 
NOTES
Isolation Tank, from Episode 2 of Celsius, is sung by a character named Princess Wu, who is describing the structure of her society on the planet Epsilon to the Flat Astronauts.

One of the biggest thrills of working with a band is when the sum is more than the parts. In this case, I had written the main verse/chorus part by coming up with the lyric and melody in my bathroom in Norwalk Connecticut, where I would often sing into a hand held tape recorder. I brought the tape which comprised the melody and lyrics to the studio and played it for the band. I envisioned a rather straightforward song with female vocals. Quite rapidly the guys put together at atmospheric sound that evoked soft rock songs from the mid-seventies.

Bus suggested that many of our songs lacked a bridge (Pruneface for example), and suggested that this song was pretty enough to bear one out. Bill had a chord progression that he was working on entirely separate from this song which he brought forward and which fit in marvelously. We worked out the structure and nailed the song in a couple takes. Originally I sang “scratch” vocals.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with studio lingo, Scratch vocals are termporary vocals which are meant to be replaced on the final version of a song. My vocals were eventually dropped out, and replaced with Amanda’s double tracked vocals.
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STUDY QUESTIONS
1) How is an Isolation Tank a metaphor for society itself?
2) How is gender defined in terms of concepts?
3) What is an “Exercise marauding equation simulation”?