Resurrect the Graveyard
Take B dials into a 125 BPM reggae-rock pocket, matching dynamic horn hits and skank guitars to tales of field repairs.
The stories behind Resurrect the Graveyard
- Ska-Punk Brass Momentum in Resurrect the Graveyard Take B — Take B dials into a 125 BPM reggae-rock pocket, matching dynamic horn hits and skank guitars to tales of field repairs.
- Resourceful Improvisation and Revival in Resurrect the Graveyard — Take A chronicles biomedical volunteers transforming discarded clinic equipment into reliable lifelines using field ingenuity.
Lyrics
Welcome to the Equipment
Graveyard, mon!
They said this gear was dead
We say it's just a sleeve
Wake em up!
Behind the rural clinic in the tropical shade
A mountain of abandoned machines in the yard was laid
Eighty percent of the gear was thrown away to rust
Covered in the cobwebs and the red jungle dust
Then arrived the students with their backpacks and their tools
Engineering, world health, rewriting all the rules
They didn't have the fancy parts from
London or New York
Just a bicycle brake cable and a bottle of wine cork, a five cent
fuse,
a hardware store wire, lighting up the clinic with a revolutionary fire
Pick up the spanner, plug in the lead
Revive the sleeping giants for the people in need
Resurrect the graveyard, bring them back to life
The biomed volunteers banish all the strife
Fix the incubator, tune up the x -ray
Millions of dollars of healing today I write blast plans
Can't get on the beat
Dancing in the sunshine on the clinic street
Nothing is wasted Everything is safe
Yeah, a brand new path that the biomed paved
Replaced an incubator bulb
With a pickup truck headlamp
We wired an anesthesia car
In the rainforest dam
Seven out of ten machines
Walked back on the floor
Nurses singing hallelujah Out the clinic door
Proving to the world
That when knowledge takes a stand
Every broken gadget can heal a broken land
Resurrect the graveyard,
bring them back to life
The Biomed volunteers banish all the strife
Fix the incubator, tune up the x -ray
Millions of dollars of healing today
Bright, bright brass playing, skanking on the beat
Dancing in the sunshine on the clinic street
Nothing is wasted, everything is safe
A brand new pap that the
Biomed pays
Equipment graveyard Empty Hospital
wards Fully equipped One love
One science
