No Safety Net
Take B leans into gypsy jazz cabaret textures at 128 BPM, delivering soaring fiddle runs and dramatic ringmaster vocals.
The stories behind No Safety Net
- Liner Notes: No Safety Net (Take B) — Take B leans into gypsy jazz cabaret textures at 128 BPM, delivering soaring fiddle runs and dramatic ringmaster vocals.
- No Safety Net: The High-Wire Art of Hospital Cabling — A theatrical cabaret showtune celebrates the daring art of pulling network cable through dark interstitial ceiling spaces.
Lyrics
HIGH ABOVE THE HOSPITAL
CROWD Look up, ladies and gentlemen,
no net!
12 feet above the tiled floor, atop a fiberglass stair I'm reaching
for the conduit suspended in the air
Pushed aside the acoustic tiles, stepped into the dark
Swinging like a trappy star to catch a digital spark
The nurses gasp down, down below, they hold their collective breath
Watching the acrobat balance above the valley of death
With a fiberglass fish tape gripped inside my teeth
Flying through the rafters while the crowd looks from beneath
Swing to the left
Reach to the right
Catch the Ethernet cable in the middle of the night
Fly on the trapeze, high in the roof
The Biomedicrobat gives you the proof
No safety net to catch the fall
Dancing over the rafters of the hospital hall
Swirl with the strings,
spin with the tape
Making sure no network packets escape
I cut the dangling blue wire right upon the fly
Pulled it through the conduit beneath the ceiling sky
Clipped it in the server box, locked the
RJ45
Bringing the entire pediatric wall alive I climbed
down the ladder with a graceful ballet
ball
The most spectacular high wire act the clinic could know
Flying on the trapeze high in the roof
The Biomedicrobat gives you the proof
No safety net to catch the fall
Dancing o 'er the rafters of the hospital hall
Swirl with the strings,
spin with the tape
Making sure no network
packets stand a chance
safely back on solid
ground,
thank you, thank you.
