String Theory

a song by Rustan Leino

Words and music by Rustan Leino, 2012.

Rustan Leino: Vocals, keyboards, bass, guitar, drums.
Becky Hill and Monica Manthey (The Doo-alities): Background vocals.

Recorded by Rustan Leino (2012).

Copyright © 2012, Rustan Leino.

Story

If you feel a need to brush up on your particle physics, you may want to scope out the wikipedia pages on string theory.

Enjoy!

Lyrics

Imma looking for a study break
   Heading out to the pool
Gonna look, try, learn a lot
   It’s not just for school
Got no theory ‘bout evathing
   But a hunch about you and me
Looking for insight into the whole
   Let’s explore our dualities

Oh, what we cover up
   In colored manmade materials
Underneath, there’s particles with
   Flavor, charge, mass, and spin
I trust that my M-theory
   Leads to your F-theory
Using these strings there’s surely a way
   To uncover the rest

CHORUS:
I’ve got a theory about a string
   And I’m gonna pull it loose
One side stays attached, but the other is mine
Fermions and pheromones
The strong force is making me weak
Unification is about to begin

This ain’t no case for engineering
   It needs R&D
I will trace your manifold
   Penetrate your high-dimensional branes
Let’s close the loop and we
   Can make it through
The deepest of space and time
   Close to me, just we two

CHORUS  I’ve got a theory about a string …

All I think about is
   physics – physique
   bosons – bosoms
   tachyons – textiles
Come on, think of
   spin – spandex
   earthquakes – love awakes
   erupting into a flow of magma

CHORUS  I’ve got a theory about a string …

Unification is about to begin