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The Man + The Machine

by Andrew Grossman

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All Your Own 04:20
Numb, stimulated nerves Emptiness of words A soft and glowing box In the morn, the sounding of the horn The laboring forlorn Like a plow upon the ox You can wake, a world in which you find An openness of mind And a reverence for the unknown You can purge, yourself of all your fears When the safety net's disappeared And your soul is all your own Stay, beleaguered and sustained Meager and in disarray, but with everything you need Misaligned, chemically combined Deaf and dumb and blind By a trough full of your feed You can wake, a world in which you find An openness of mind And a reverence for the unknown You can purge, yourself of all your fears When the safety net's disappeared And your soul all is your own
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I live to my proportions in the letter of the law I'm a good little boy, I do what I'm told I place my faith in governmental consensus And put my money down to what is sold Centered in the department of public relations They say, "Pleasure to the Betterment of Health!" They say that we're in charge of the machinery at large But we're just cattle with a sense of self So long, so long I won't remember this at all Not like the way things used to be Shake hands, keep quiet Purchase, repeat Dearest oblivion come to me I check my screen for an update every minute or so I am an advertisement of myself With electronic discharge going into the brain We don't need anything else We're all living in the pocket of the vacuum tube With no regard for the cost The illusion's come alive, and we're just trying to imbibe A blurry line is too easy to cross So long, so long I won't remember this at all Not like the way things used to be Shake hands, keep quiet Purchase, repeat Dearest oblivion come to me
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Terraform and actuarial Synesthetic suspect located Cars and trucks on expressways Surveillance cameras and dials and knobs Cold comfort complacency routine Routine Routine Repeat Repeat
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Where are the captains who will pilot the machine We can't fly it our own They died like dinosaurs when an asteroid hit earth Now I just want to keep my home We're all good people, I work hard and feed my family Just seems we're just running out the clock Skyscrapers crashing down Down Down Like waves they're crashing down Down Down Skyscrapers crashing down Down Down Like waves they're crashing down They told us fight us the man who's skin won't look like ours They told us liberate the poor We gave them everything and still they hate our way of life I guess we'll just go back for more I prayed and voted for the man who walked and talked like me But still I'm not too big to fail Skyscrapers crashing down Down Down Like waves they're crashing down Down Down Skyscrapers crashing down Down Down Like waves they're crashing down
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We were young And in love Doing as we please Now we're old With nothing left but To mourn the death of possibilities Saying Where did it go wrong, how did it go wrong? Where did it go wrong, how did it go wrong? Where did it go wrong I always thought the world would treat me right Never thought it'd put up a fight I was wrong For too long I'm alone I an empty room With my memories and regrets I could call But I'm afraid There might just be nothing left Saying Where did it go wrong, how did it go wrong? Where did it go wrong, how did it go wrong? Where did it go wrong
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#dystopia 02:36
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You know I'd really like to leave this town someday I gave it all i had and it just spit it back my way So now when I wear the suit or don the toupee I keep searching for the meaning but i only find dismay Got my car, got my degree Put my faith in the white patriarch hegemony Only problem now my life is cable TV 600 channels but nothing left to see Now I'm frail, I'm all alone My mind is filled to the brim of what might have been and I'm scared to the bone I'm a long long way from the days of my youth The only thing worse than getting old is getting to the truth I was a afraid when i was younger I didn't know what to do And the path of least resistance seemed like a good thing to resign to But even back then when i took the job i knew That it'd only be a little while before i just a suit So now that i've sold my soul to the american third reich And we're all jaded and medicated and dated all alike And as we march toward oblivion on our one last glory hike I have one thing left to say and that's death to rockville pike

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released September 23, 2013

written performed and recorded by andrew grossman
mixed and mastered by ilia kobrinsky
album artwork by abi kallushi

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