Release the grease

Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!
Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!
 
We’re here to get down with planography
Been around since the eighteenth century
In the Kingdom of Bavaria
Lived Alois Senefelder
Outta paper, so he wrote it on a stone
And voila! Lithography was born
Hydrophobic!
Yeah hydrophilic too
Immiscibility is gonna rule!
 
Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!
 
Got my stone, gonna grind it down
Levigator, spinning all around
I’ll level it, with 80 grit
Time to get intimate with the graining sink
Feel the pressure, testing for a wedge
Eliminating hollows, filing down the edge
Waxy crayon! Look out oily tousche
Grab the gum arabic, I’m cutting loose!
 
Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!
 
Release!
 
Yeah, release!
 
The grease!
 
Oil and water were never meant to mix
Hope the theory holds or else I’m in a fix
Three Hail Marys! Can you feel the fear?
Washed my image out. Oh God, please reappear!
Lube up the tympan, lower down the bar
Got my sponge, got my nitric in a jar
Ease the pressure! Don’t want my stone to crack
Done my second etch. No turning back!
 
Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!
Ah, wash out!
Release, the grease
Wash out!

Chic, Le freak, 1978