The Heart Metronome
Take B blends folk-pop acoustic strumming and glockenspiel textures into a buoyant showcase of cardiac timing.
The stories behind The Heart Metronome
- Acoustic Warmth and Rhythm in The Heart Metronome — Take B blends folk-pop acoustic strumming and glockenspiel textures into a buoyant showcase of cardiac timing.
- The Heart Metronome and the Engineering of Cardiac Pacing — Take A uses joyful children's pop to explain how titanium-encapsulated pacemakers and telemetry wands keep hearts beating strong.
Lyrics
Keep the beat, keep the time
Look at this tiny little superhero
Smaller than a silver dollar, shiny and neat
Tucked beneath the skin to help a slow heartbeat
Sealed in titanium,
watertight and strong Humming with a battery ten whole years long
Tiny flexible wires Thinner than a thread
Traveling through the veins to the heart muscle bed
When the heart gets tired
And the rhythm starts to slow
The little metronome is ready to go
It listens to the heartbeat 24 -7
A microchip guardian sent from heaven
If a beat drops out, it says, here's a little spark
Lighting up the rhythm in the cozy dark
The heart metronome, keeping the groove
Helping every grandma and grandpa move
Tick tock ba -bop, steady and true
Tiny micro pulses delivered to you
Never misses a beat, never gets tired
Biomedical engineering wire Jump in time, tap your little feet
To the happy little pacemaker beat
Lithium iodine battery inside the case
Never needs a plug -in in the living space
Biomeds use a wand held over the skin
To read the computer data stored within
We check the basic thresholds
We test the battery gauge
Keepin' hearts dancing at any single age
The heart metronome, keepin' the groove
Helping every grandma and grandpa move
Tick -tock -a -bop -bop, steady and true
Tiny micropulses delivered to you
Never misses a beat, never gets tired
Biomedical engineering wire Jump in time, tap your little feet
To the happy little pacemaker
Tick, tick, thump, thump
Steady rhythm, healthy jump
One, two, three, four
Grandpa's dancing across the floor
The heart metronome, keeping the groove
Helping every grandma and grandpa move
Tick, tock, the bum, steady and true
Tiny micropulses delivered to you
Never misses a beat, never gets tired
Biomedical engineering wire Jumping times, happy little feet
To the happy little pacemaker beat
Right on time Good job, little metronome
