Say, I hear you play air guitar
Like a million-dollar rock-star
Yeah, swinging that axe and looking sharp
But can you tease the untouchable harp?
Can you gesture forth eerie arias
Worthy of unseen phantom operas
Can you conduct concertos
Plucked from thin air
Do you dare the instrument
That isn’t really there?
You play it with a wave
Amplitude and oscillation
That’s all it takes
To surf those good vibrations
Stringless space
Tracing vapor’s song
There’s gremlins in the theremin
What could possibly go wrong?
And when you’re all alone
In the chaos zone of the etherphone
Where shapes of sound are shown
Fourier waves of volume and tone
On marionette strings of energy
Naked hands generating melodies
Like a flash of sorcery
You play it with a wave
Amplitude and oscillation
That’s all it takes
To surf those good vibrations
Stringless space
Tracing vapor’s song
There’s gremlins in the theremin
What could possibly go wrong?
Tuning the vast sonar ocean
To tones of lunar emotions
Gradients of shrill variation
Always on the edge of implosion
Theremin, you mind-bender!
Full of unsung songs to render
You’re the sailor they’ll remember
When the bombs are marked return to sender
And the airborne corps all surrender
You play it with a wave
Amplitude and oscillation
That’s all it takes
To surf those good vibrations
Stringless space
Tracing vapor’s song
There’s gremlins in the theremin
What could possibly go wrong?