"Machine" (also known as "Machine Machine Machine") is a song by Mars Argo. It is featured as the fourth track on their debut album Technology Is a Dead Bird.
Background[]
An acoustic performance of the song was uploaded to the Grocerybag YouTube channel on October 14th, 2009,[1] the audio of which was later included as a track on the Internet Sessions EP on August 18th, 2010.[2]
The album version of the song originally featured a monologue from Connie upon release. However, this monologue was eventually removed from the track after the duo updated the album mixes on their Bandcamp page sometime in 2010.
On June 28th, 2013, Titanic Sinclair stated in a now-deleted tweet that "Machine" was one of the first songs he wrote with Mars Argo and that it's about the apocalypse.[3]
Lyrics[]
Why can't I see you?
You took me to a place that wasn't safe
For me and you
We saw the Milky Way at night
You put up a fight with me
Now we're leaving
What happened to the Monday nights?
We would fall asleep at three
I think that we could be the same
I think I'm insane
My brain is telling me
I'm a machine
Machine, machine
My friend's got a forty with his fifty on
Said the world's gonna end but I think he's wrong
I know it's true
The things I do for you and me
Now we're leaving
Machine, machine
Machine, machine
Machine, machine
Machine, machine
Machine, machine
Machine, machine
We're all suckers to technology.
Admiring the next thing that just happened.
Where are my devices?
Where is my email and contacts?
I want them now.
I need them.
Where is my Wi-Fi?
On an airplane?
Perspective is everything, then it changes with us here.
Everything is happening so fast, and yet, nothing is happening.
We are a nothing world, with nothing degrees, working nothing jobs, creating nothing, while going nowhere achieving nothing in an infantry of nothing.
I want off of this angry planet, I want to be reprogrammed immediately.
Official versions[]
- Album version – 3:23
- Instrumental – 3:24
- "Would You Live Forever?" instrumental demo – 2:14
- Original mix with Connie – 3:23
- Internet Sessions acoustic – 2:02
Trivia[]
- On September 9th, 2014, Sinclair stated on Twitter that he "just wrote [a] sequel" to the song,[4] following up with a tweet saying he "just wrote a hit".[5] It is unknown what song he was referring to.
- On March 25th, 2017, Sinclair filmed two clips of him playing the song on acoustic guitar and sent them to a fan.
References[]
- ↑ grocerybagdottv (October 14, 2009). "Machine Machine Machine". YouTube. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ↑ Mars Argo (August 18, 2010). "Internet Sessions". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
- ↑ Titanic Sinclair (June 28, 2013). "Here is an oldie. This is one of the first songs I ever wrote with @marsargo. It is about the apocolypse". Twitter. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- ↑ Titanic Sinclair (September 9, 2014). "For fans of Mars Argo: I just wrote the sequel to "Machine"". Twitter. Archived from the original on April 22, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
- ↑ Titanic Sinclair (September 9, 2014). "This is going to sound so douchey but I just wrote a hit". Twitter. Archived from the original. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
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| Tracklist | "The Singularity Is Near" ☮ "Suicide Birds" ☮ "Mrs. Stadler" ☮ "Machine" ☮ "Monsters Under My Bed" ☮ "Technology Is a Dead Bird" ☮ "Sideways and Sideways" ☮ "You Don't Know Me Anymore" ☮ "Feeling Welcome in a Time Warp" ☮ "Tired Today" |
| Non-album | "Audio" ☮ "Audio 4" ☮ "Audio 5" ☮ "Electric Car" ☮ "Dream" ☮ "Free Song" ☮ "Moot" ☮ "Spider in My Bathtub" ☮ "Weightless Egos" ☮ "Welcome to the Future" ☮ "You Have a Lot of Work to Do" |
| Misc | Connie ☮ Talkbox |
| Other releases | |
| Technology Is a Dead Bird • Internet Sessions • Linden Place • Mars Argo CD • I Can Only Be Me EP • Debut solo album | |
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| Tracklist | "Machine" • "Suicide Birds" • "Electric Car" • "Technology Is a Dead Bird" • "Using You" • "Everything Turns to Gold" |
| Other releases | |
| Technology Is a Dead Bird • Internet Sessions • Linden Place • Mars Argo CD • I Can Only Be Me EP • Debut solo album | |
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| Tracklist | "Formal Girl" • "Love in Black and White" • "Beauty Is Empty" • "Using You" • "Machine" • "Suicide Birds" • "Nothing Without You" • "Runaway Runaway" • "Everything Turns to Gold" • "Throw Your Thoughts Away" |
| Other releases | |
| Technology Is a Dead Bird • Internet Sessions • Linden Place • Mars Argo CD • I Can Only Be Me EP • Debut solo album | |