'81: How To Play The Synthesizer Lyrics

Take a signal oscillator
Producing a drone
Send it to the wave shaper
Altering the tone

This can be a triangle
Sawtooth or a square
Modulate the pulse width
Nobody will care

This is how to play the synthesizer
This is how to play the synthesizer

Now go to the filter bank
Low, high, band or notch
Fiddle with the cutoff point
Pour yourself a Scotch

[?] oscillate
All by themselves
It sounds like you're torturing
Little [?] elves

This is how to play the synthesizer
This is how to play the synthesizer

Next, please shape the envelope
AKA ADSR
Attack-delay-sustain-release
Which means how loud you are

One millisecond to the next
With [?] lurch
[?] like an organist
In [?] church

This is how to play the synthesizer
This is how to play the synthesizer