(Let's All Help Solve) Gary's Problem

Released on This Is Not Your Shape. The rhythm track of the song is mainly built using loops made in the iPhone app Hexatone, a very weird and excellent generative (and hexagonal) drum sequencer.


Gary's holed up in his bedroom

Won't come out for food or TV

Sometimes staring out the window

Sometimes lying on the carpet

Mums been cooking all his favourites

Knows it won't make any difference

As he smells the apple crumble

Gary chants his special words:


Packet Router
Upload Vector
Comms-Link Failure
Method Acting
Stats Analysis
Schwarzchild Radius
I-beam Girder
Shock and Awe


Let's all help solve Gary's ------- problem

Let's all help ------ ------ solve Gary's ------

problem Let's all help ------ solve -------

Gary's ------ problem Let's all help -------


Gary's hanging with his mates

Down the park and near the swings

There's not much to do each evening

No ones got much left to say

Gary slips into the shadows

Fumbles for his mobile phone

Low on credit - it don't matter

Time enough to speak these words:


Space-Time Metric
Mango Chutney
Kevlar Lining
Post-Industrial
System Error
Motor Neuron
Self-Assembling Nanobots


Let's all help solve Gary's ------- problem

Let's all help ------ ------ solve Gary's ------

problem Let's all help ------ solve -------

Gary's ------ problem Let's all help -------


Gary's gone to see the specialist

Time to have a little chat

Gary keeps his features frozen

No one knows what's in his head

As the voice drones on and on

Gary eyes some scattered papers

Folders, reports and a letter

Where he reads familiar words:


Zero Tolerance
Liquid Crystal
Aspect Ratio
Feedback Loop
Matrix Management
Mission Statement
Lethal Voltage
Chip and PIN
Stats Analysis
Schwarzchild Radius
I-beam Girder
Shock and Awe
Space-Time Metric
Mango Chutney
Kevlar Lining
Vacuum Tube
System Error
Motor Neuron
Self-Assembling Nanobots
Packet Router
Upload Vector
Comms-Link Failure
Halting State
Zero Tolerance
Liquid Crystal
Aspect Ratio
Feedback Loop
Matrix Management
Mission Statement
Lethal Voltage
Chip and PIN
Stats Analysis
Schwarzchild Radius
I-beam Girder
Shock and Awe
Space-Time Metric
Mango Chutney
Kevlar Lining
Vacuum Tube
System Error
Motor Neuron
Self-Assembling Nanobots
Packet Router
Upload Vector
Comms-Link Failure
Halting StateZero Tolerance
Liquid Crystal
Aspect Ratio
Feedback Loop
Matrix Management
Mission Statement
Lethal Voltage
Chip and PIN
Stats Analysis
Schwarzchild Radius
I-beam Girder
Shock and Awe
Space-Time Metric
Mango Chutney
Kevlar Lining
Vacuum Tube
System Error
Motor Neuron
Self-Assembling Nanobots
Packet Router
Upload Vector
Comms-Link Failure
Halting State
Zero Tolerance
Liquid Crystal
Aspect Ratio
Feedback Loop
Matrix Management
Mission Statement
Lethal Voltage
Chip and PIN
Stats Analysis
Schwarzchild Radius
I-beam Girder
Shock and Awe
Space-Time Metric
Mango Chutney
Kevlar Lining
Vacuum Tube
System Error
Motor Neuron
Self-Assembling Nanobots
Packet Router
Upload Vector
Comms-Link Failure
Halting State