Call Me Trimtab
22 * Track #2 On You Are Creating: Limb2
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This track is riddled with references to the work and ideas of Buckminster Fuller – geodesic domes in the shape of an icosahedron, “Dymaxion”, his polyphasic sleep schedule, and most strikingly, the title of the song, Call Me Trimtab, the text inscribed on his gravestone.
Call Me Trimtab Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hydra-headed thoughts
Are making my eyes cross
All these spheres, hypothetical
(Digital)
Geodesic domes, resembling chromosomes
I moved into a dymaxion
(Dwelling machine)
[Pre-Chorus]
And we keep inventing jobs
(And we keep on righting wrongs)
See us turning into stones
(Now they're all gone, the dos and don'ts)
[Chorus]
Not today, not today, not today
How I love to put it off
How I love to be taken care of
And weep
Venture into polyphasic sleep
Icosahedron
I don't need to rest
Have to do my best
Call me Trimtab
[Verse 2]
I'm a man of the future
Feed into my picture
All this timе, to configurate
(Draw figure eights)
Oh no, storm is coming
You'rе only becoming
[Pre-Chorus]
And we keep inventing jobs
(And we keep on righting wrongs)
See us turning into stones
(No one confronts the dos and don'ts)
[Chorus]
Not today, not today, not today
How I love to put it off
How I love to be taken care of
And weep
Venture into polyphasic sleep
Icosahedron
I don't need to rest
Have to do my best
Call me Trimtab
And we keep inventing jobs
(And we keep on righting wrongs)
I can do it too, but
[Chorus]
Not today, not today, not today
How I love to put it off
How I love to be taken care of
I'm set, if you could only take the first step
Icosahedron
I don't need to rest
Have to do my best
Call me Trimtab