Archimedes / Danse Bacchanale
Channel: Markologic Music
Date: 2021-09-10

From the album 2 + 2 = Mark.

LYRICS

our eyes meet
in the club
we move to the rhythm of the wub dub

your beard entrances, romances me
your eyes are calculating a geometry
in our dance, a proof, we are becoming free

in the Domino's
two for one
we are laughing at Plato we are having fun
and what is the deal with the Seleucids anyway

later on, we walk through little Italy
I wish to visit a gelateri
but now I feel that we must flee
I tug on his toga, but he does not budge

he screams, the Romans are here
they are murderers but do not fear
if we burn this fort we will be in the clear
and I say, I'll take a pass on this one, dear

on the stoop, his place, his nose is red
he says if I will join him on his water bed
he'll calculate my density he does not see
that nothing can be said that will dissuade me from returning to my home instead

I lean in, kiss him on the chin
and I am reeling from an awful fright
his skin is cold and his beard a ghastly white
he's fading rapidly into the night

I kissed the ghost of Archimedes
(I kissed the ghost of Archimedes)
I kissed the ghost of Archimedes
(and I liked it)
I kissed the ghost of Archimedes
(he tasted of mathematics)
I kissed the ghost of Archimedes

ALBUM CREDITS

All music, lyrics, instruments, vocals by Mark Wittels, except Archimedes / Danse Bacchanale (music also by Camille Saint-Saëns) and Don't Worry Be Happy (lyrics also by Bobby McFerrin).

Cover art (and profile art) by Julia Zimmerman

Inspiration for the whole thing by Arin Rogers


Released under CC BY-NC 3.0 license.