The stories behind Steam It On Down

• Rattling Boilers and Delta Blues in Steam It On Down — Examining the swampy acoustic strings, raspy vocal delivery, and driving blues-rock shuffle of Take B.
• Chamber Pressures and Bowie-Dick in Steam It On Down — Exploring the high-temperature steam sterilization cycles, safety valves, and gasket maintenance that keep surgical suites sterile.

Lyrics

Oh

Smell that hot steam cooking

Pull the safety

45 pounds of light steam in the jacket wall

Hissing like a diamond back down in the hall

Silicone door gasket baked as stiff as pie

Gotta grease it down with silicone grease so fine

Straight to chamber strainer, go down

Linton's scale Making sure the vacuum pump can never

fail Popped the brass safety lever, heard the boiler roar

Loud as damn steam whistle on the basement floor

Moby Dick test sheet, folded in the pack

If there's air in the chamber, the paper won't turn black

Like a radio door

132 degrees of heat

The biomed makes the surgical tools complete

Resonate a crime,

harmonica shake Killing every bacteria in the

steam's wake Bowie dick pass

Yes, drain line clean

Pop the stamp stabilizer back

You ever seen Steam it on down

Hook it on up

Pour another dose in my coffee cup

Oh, we dig, dig, she

Uniform black

Safety valve reseated Autoclave certified