how the pigs' music works""

Singer: frank zappa

i think i can explain about about how the pigs' music works

well

this should be interesting

remember that they make music with a very dense light

yeah

o.k. and remember about the smoke standing still and how they they really get uptight when you try to move the smoke

right?

right

yeah?

i think the music in that dense light is probably what makes the smoke stand still. as soon as the pony's mane starts to get good in the back any sort of motion

especially of smoke or gas

begins to make the ends split

well don't the splitting ends change the density of the ponies' music so it affects the density of the pigs' music

which makes the smoke move which upsets the pigs?

no

it isn't like that

well

how does it work?

well

what it does is when it strikes any sort of energy field or solid object or even something as ephemeral as smoke

the first thing it does is begins to inactivate the molecular motion so that it slows down and finally stops. that's why the smoke stops. and also have you ever noticed how the the smoke clouds shrink up? that's because the molecules come closer together. the cold light makes it get so small

this is really brittle smoke

and that's why the pigs don't want you to touch it

see

when the smoke gets that brittle what happens when you try to move it is it disintegrates

and the pigs get uptight 'cause you know they

they worship that smoke. they salute it every day

you know we've got something here

and

and

and

and that's the basis of all their nationalism. like if they can't salute the smoke every morning when they get up. yeah

it's a vicious circle. you got it

Lyric Context: how the pigs' music works"" - frank zappa