The Radio Is Broken
Lost in Cosmic Melodies: Frank Zappa's Odyssey Beyond Earth
Lyrics
The cosmos at large it's so very big
The vastness of the cosmos is incredibly immense.
It's so far away
It is extremely distant.
The cometsthe cratersthe vapors
Reference to celestial elements like comets, craters, and vapors.
The solar wind
Refers to the solar wind.
The residual echoesthe residual echoes
Repetition of "residual echoes" from a massive explosion.
The residual echoes from the giant explosion
Elaboration on the echoes from a significant starting point.
Where they said it beginned
Suggests the origin point of the cosmos.
The germs from space!
Mention of extraterrestrial germs.
The negative-virus knit-wear
Introduction of a negative-virus knit-wear and a blobulent suit.
The blobulent suit
Emphasizes the unattractiveness of the suit.
That's right! THE BLOBULENT SUIT
Reiteration of the blobulent suit's existence.
It's made of rubbert, it's very ugly
Description of the suit being made of rubber.
It's got an air hose
The suit has an air hose.
(The guy that has it all has a SPACE WRENCH)
Reference to someone having a space wrench.
The things that were supposed to be green
Things in black and white movies that were supposed to be green.
In the balck and white movies
Reference to old movie visuals.
They get you in the neck
Unexpected attacks from the supposed green things.
When you're not looking
Being caught off guard during inattentiveness.
They get you, the get you
Repetition emphasizing the repeated attacks.
They get you, get you, get you
-The radio is broken - it don't work no more
The radio is malfunctioning and no longer works.
The radio is broken - it don't work no more
-The lovely Lisa Kranston:
Introduction of Lisa Kranston and her father's secret fuel invention.
(Her father invented the secred
Details about Lisa's father and the rocket fuel.
Fuel (that's right) for the rocket)
-So she gets to go with a clipboard!
Lisa gets to go to space with a clipboard.
She writes it down when the meters go around
Lisa records data as meters go around.
And falls in love in a space warp space warp
Falls in love during a space warp.
Space warp the giant knobs
Reference to giant knobs in space.
The porthole where you see the
Details about the porthole and the first view of Earth.
Earth for the first time
-The corrugated fiberglass interior walls
Features of the spaceship's interior.
The parially reclining G-force lawn furniture
-The brown hole the pointed brasseries
References to specific elements in space.
The atomic war
Reference to atomic war.
The tiny little dresses on the space girls
Describes space girls' attire.
A love-starved race begging to reproduce
Desire of space beings to reproduce with Earthmen.
With earthmen
-They need to reproduce (with John Agar)
-They need to reproduce (with Morris Ankrum)
-They need to reproduce
-(with Richard Basehart)
-They need to reproduce (with Jackie Coogan)
-They need to reproduce (with Sonny Tufts)
-The botchinothe botchinothe botchino
Repetition of "botchino."
The gigantic spider
Mention of a gigantic spider.
The co-pilot always plays the harmonica
The co-pilot playing the harmonica.
The navigator always gets killed by
The navigator facing danger from a bad space person.
A bad space person
-Uh oh - the radio is broken
The realization that the radio is broken.
It don't work anymore the radio is broken
-It don't work anymore the radio is broken
Confirmation of the radio malfunction and the impossibility of returning to Earth.
It don't work anymore
-We'll never get back to the Earth no more
The urgency of falling in love on Uranus.
Uh oh! We have to fall in love on Uranus!
Humorous suggestion due to the broken radio.
The radio is that's right - uh oh
Reiteration of the broken radio and the meteor storm.
The radio is broken the meteor storm
-You spilled your coke
An incidental event during the meteor storm.
You're stepping on the popcorn jOHN AGAR!
Specifically mentions John Agar spilling his coke.
Uh oh (Dwarf Nebula)
Additional mention of a Dwarf Nebula.
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