Square Peg in a Round Hole
Take B leans into a heavy 1970s disco-funk groove with biting brass stabs and gritty rhythm guitars celebrating Apollo 13.
The stories behind Square Peg in a Round Hole
- Slap Bass and Houston Hustle in Ground Control — Take B leans into a heavy 1970s disco-funk groove with biting brass stabs and gritty rhythm guitars celebrating Apollo 13.
- Ground Control Life Support and the Cardboard Scrubber — When Apollo 13 faced lethal carbon dioxide build-up, biomedical technicians built a lifesaver from duct tape and plastic flight bags.
Lyrics
Houston. We have a problem.
The CO2 scrubber is square, but the socket is round.
Mission control.
Life support team.
Get to work.
one.
24 hours to figure what to do dunk a box of
astronaut supplies on the floor.
Build a lifesaver that can open up the door.
Plastic flight suit bags, cardboard flight log sheets.
Gray duct tape that never admits defeat.
No fancy labs, just practical design.
Saving three lives on the outer space line.
the biomech team
move
Tape it on up, tape it on tight
Bringin' Apollo home through the night
Cool as ice, can't be beat
Savin' the crew from the deadly air heat
See the truth from the deadly, from the deadly, deadly air heat
Read the instructions up across the radio space
Astronauts built the adapter in the zero -g place
Clipped on the hose, taped the cardboard down
The carbon levels plummeted right back to town
Air scrubbed clean,
the capsule made a splash
Proving that human ingenuity won't crash
The square peg in the round peg hole
The bio -med team
In ground control Wild, wild guitar
Playin' that grumin' it groove
That's the way the hostin' hustlers move
Tape it on up, tape it on tight
Bringin' Apollo home through the night
Cool as ice, can't be beat
Savin' the crew from the deadly air heat
CO2 levels nominal
Crew returns safe
Houston Mission Accomplished
