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Loscha wrote this song originally on his casio SK-5...He forgot the words so I had the Cold War Girl Lyrics which I just vocodered over the top. Probably play it with the MT-65 or VL-5 live.

N Squared (aka Cold War Girl) is a silly love-sick song partly about the Soviet Union's paradoxical concept of empowering women by putting them in life-threatening situations (as fighter pilots,
cosmonaughts, spies and biologlical weapons scientists.)



Deputy Commander Irina Rakabolskaya tells how the first slogan of the regiment was, "You are a woman and you should be proud of that." She goes on to relate how her good friend Yevgeniya Rudneva, who was awarded the Gold Star (Hero of the Soviet Union) posthumously, was an astronomer and a poet and was also fond of fairy tales.

"When we were not on missions, she would gather us all together at the airfield and recite fairy tales by Zhukovsky. When she was burning, in the air over Kerch, I was standing at the aerodrome watching it. I was losing my friend, she was burning away over my head, and I could do nothing to save her."

For more info on soviet women fighter pilots:
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/soviet_women_pilots.html

Then it's also about the legacy of that "sacrifice=heroic" mentallity which has produced sports champions who at 15 dominate the game but then have a mid life crisis at age of 18.

GROWING UP = LIED TO
Both N Squared and Soviet Reunion are indirectly related to the 80's nostalgia because all I ever
heard in the 80's was that the Russians were going to kill everyone and being a little kid I'd have nightmares about it because it scared the shit
out of me

I guess in these songs I'm coming to terms with the paradox that as I got older I'd find myself dreaming about east european tennis players so the contrast is completely dramatic and absurd.

Reagan should have shut the hell up about nuclear destruction because a much greater threat was being created... the soviet union's arsenal of really f***ing good looking tennis players. Hah! It's just amazing how misleading the propaganda was.

Blue Engineer plays the powerchords on casio
Red Engineer sings in the vocoder
I think the demo is tuned to 442 Hz...possibly.

F C // G C // A C // G C

I heard the KGB Wants to take her from me
They can take the world But not my cold war girl
She doesn’t speak my language She speaks my mind
Another cold war Girl I could never find

Fc gd ae hold (Chorus x2)

I brought her in from the cold
Brought her in from the snow
Put her on the first plane
Out of Moscow

She was keeping secrets That She’d never sell
She’d wait for an offer Then tell them she’d tell
She planted a bomb Under a bridge
14 Died 13 Lived
When she gets bored She’s a dangerous thing
So to keep her occupied, this song I sing

Fc gd ae hold (Chorus x1)

I brought her in from the cold
Brought her in from the snow
Put her on the first plane
Out of Moscow

She’s got a micro chip Planted in her brain
I have to remember not to leave her out in the rain
My cold war girl Costs me more and more
But she is all I’m living for

Red Engineer's Vocoder Guitar Tab:
Verse:
A-------12--14--15--14-------------------------
Chorus:
D-------14----14-----14-----12--9--------------
A----------15-----15----15---------------------
Ending:
D--------------14--17-------------------------
A--------17-15--------------------------------