Gigantic Robot Girlfriend

by Max Knightley

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1.
August 02:25
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VERSE 1 Oh, August Why do you treat me like you do Oh, August What did I ever do to you? Oh, August You seem to think it's only right to make me feel so wrong Oh, August At least we're just one more month long CHORUS Scream until my voice is strained and shrill 'cause though I sweat beneath the sun, I'll dance beneath the moon Tonight and then Our seeds will grow again 'cause though the soil's dry the rain is comin' back real soon VERSE 2 Oh, August Can't handle you for too much more Oh, August What hell do you still have in store Oh, August Just being near you makes me feel like I can't do a thing But, August Your heat is finally fading CHORUS Scream until my voice is strained and shrill 'cause though I sweat beneath the sun, I'll dance beneath the moon Tonight and then Our seeds will grow again 'cause though the soil's dry the rain is comin' back real soon VERSE 3 Oh, August I'm gone again and maybe now Oh, August I'll truly stay away somehow Oh, August I'm still afraid that you are gonna come around again But, August, if you do that won't be now, but only then
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Gigantic Robot Girlfriend 04:01
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VERSE 1 She was built beneath the Pentagon inside a secret lab the ultimate weapon of destruction An engineering masterpiece, a modern-day Colossus of titanium and fiberglass construction But something 'bout the AI didn't quite go how they planned, prioritizing romance over military might She's got gatling guns and cannons and her missiles never miss Bombs and lasers never faze her, but she overheats whenever she gets kissed CHORUS Gigantic robot girlfriend she measures point two miles, my Gigantic robot girlfriend never fails to make me smile Gigantic robot girlfriend! I'm so glad we found each other Gigantic robot girlfriend! I could never tell you just how much I love her VERSE 2 She takes me out for coffee even though she doesn't drink 'cause she knows how much I love me a croissant I taught her ballroom dancing and I help her host her parties 'cause she's actually quite the bon viva-va-vant I'm saving up some money for a custom iron ring (I can't afford the several tons of diamonds I would need) I moved this last October to a room inside her hangar And though it's still a challenge I know I'll figure out a way to... raise a family with her. CHORUS Gigantic robot girlfriend she measures point two miles, my Gigantic robot girlfriend never fails to make me smile Gigantic robot girlfriend! I'm so glad we found each other Gigantic robot girlfriend! I could never tell you just how much I love her Whoa-oh-oh BRIDGE I won't claim that we don't have any problems We argue over chores and TV shows It feels like half the time I'm not at work, she's fighting supercrime And we did, of course, get banned from Tokyo (Edirne, Cairo, Nice and Boise, Idaho) VERSE 3 One night, the G-men take a trip to kill or bring her in her power far too useful to let slip I plead and scream, but just a few have any second thoughts the rest just move to tighten up their grip She puts a damn good fight up, with nonlethal ordnance, too As gentle as a kitten with a primed atomic claw They finally turn tail, I'm almost calling it a win But one last agent goes and slaps an EMP device straight on her chin They leave, and mostly satisfied she crashes to the ground as static fills my vision and her eyes I'm reaching out for words that can describe what's on my mind But all that I can find is hows and whys If this is where it ends, I think, it's how she'd want to go; defiant, independent to the last - I stop breathing for a second — her eyes flicker back to life — I'm shaking as she tells me: "I'm not dying before calling you my wife!" CHORUS Gigantic robot girlfriend! Still soaring through the sky! My gigantic robot girlfriend! Our love will never die! Gigantic robot girlfriend! No one could ever beat her! Gigantic robot girlfriend! And I've never known a woman any sweeter Gigantic robot girlfriend she measures point two miles, my Gigantic robot girlfriend never fails to make me smile Gigantic robot girlfriend! I'm so glad we found each other Gigantic robot girlfriend! I could never tell you just how much I love her
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Wannabe Sellout 02:01
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A lotta folks, they say they want it indie to sign with major labels makes you scum But frankly, just as long as I still get to write the song I'd rather be a sellout than a bum Yeah I'm a wannabe sellout with no PR! and I got far to go if I'm gonna go far Got no map to find success so I'll take whatever path I see and do my best I'm a wannabe sellout I got no clout and I got few standards I can't drop out ...Or so I'll say 'til it's put to the test Man, I'd shill about anything for fifty cents as long as it totals up to meet my rent Can't stand soda, but you know I'd drink it for a quarter I just don't want to have to say Hello, sir. Can I take your order? Yeah I'm a wannabe sellout with no PR! and I got far to go if I'm gonna go far I've set my sights I've stoked my flame But that doesn't mean shit if I can't play the game I'm a wannabe sellout who's not too bad but I'm too far left and I'm too damn mad and it feels like you gotta be a bastard to find any fame Well, street cred's fine, but you gotta admit that next to a million, it just looks like shit If I had a choice Then I'd trade it all away long as I can still write some damn songs for half-decent pay Yeah I'm a wannabe sellout with no PR! and I got far to go if I'm gonna go far No idea where I should start So I'm leavin' half to chance and all the rest to art I'm a wannabe sellout I won't pretend that I'm changin' my ways before the bitter end I'll either die or carve myself a part
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The Unthinkably Terrible Warping of my Flesh 02:31
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VERSE 1 Used to be that I was on top of the game 8-D fish in a 4-D lake But then I made it my mission to off the competition and strange aeons make that a mistake The higher-ups got together and they were set on teachin' me a lesson that I wouldn't forget they said it's time that I learn firsthand just what it is to be weak And now I got CHORUS Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! This hateful blight, Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! No wings in sight! VERSE 2 I knew that this happened to other folks but never gals like me; it came with sports glory, horror stories, toilin' in the slime quarry, Films straight to T-V! I had the best-laid plans, I was gonna devour enough souls to triple my psionic power But now my future's lookin' pretty bleak 'Cause I got CHORUS Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! And I'm solid as rock! Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs, I gotta move to walk! BRIDGE Oh, how I miss the glory days back on my endless plane The elder gods all loved me, while the young ones feared my name! My countless writhing tendrils they could span a thousand leagues And mortal men would tremble if I ever deigned to speak But now I got CHORUS Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! And if I die that's it! Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! What a load of shit! Two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! How could it be worse than two arms! Two eyes! Two legs! The flesh is a curse!
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Out Of The Bunker 01:52
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Zombies grasping at my wrists seeing me just makes 'em pissed they must envy those with souls and spines Clothed in guts and bathed in blood, I can amble through the flood but when it all clears up is when I shine And then I say FUCK THIS! FUCK YOU! I won't be who you want me to! FUCK OFF! GET LOST! Your comfort just ain't worth the cost! Shut up, don't run your goddamn mouth 'cause nothin' new is comin' out fuck everything you're saying, and fuck you! Sometimes people call me brave which seems unfair; I try to save defiance for the parties I call home But sometimes, seein' all that rot my temper starts a-runnin' hot and I just want to break a fucker's bones And then I say FUCK THIS! FUCK YOU! I won't be who you want me to! FUCK OFF! GET LOST! Your comfort just ain't worth the cost! Shut up, don't run your goddamn mouth 'cause nothin' new is comin' out fuck everything you're saying, and fuck you! I got no shotgun, pistol, shield or sword No troops, no cops, no mortal lord But I am tr-nny, hear me roar I'll weather this and ten times more! FUCK THIS! FUCK YOU! I won't be who you want me to! FUCK OFF! GET LOST! Your comfort just ain't worth the cost! Shut up, don't run your goddamn mouth 'cause nothin' new is comin' out fuck everything you're saying, and fuck you!
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The Computer Is Your Friend 02:47
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VERSE 1 The verdant frontier of the Amazon named for the warrior women who mastered the plains The forest is falling so rich men can give their cattle a home where no cattle should live At least the name has a legacy, one of brutality - see, in reality: the warrior triumphs the feminine dies, it kills its own servants for pissing 'cause that means they're missing the chance to polish its prize CHORUS It's good that we can serve you in a blink, ma'am We're happy to deliver to your door It's good to see the workers' power shrink, ma'am They work for less but give you so much more It's good if we exploit and we devour to grow with neither profit nor an end a data-driven tumor seizing power It's fine 'cause the computer is your friend VERSE 2 All-watching no-seeing eyes, can't stop the rage with their lies, can't stop the youth when they rise Why should they bother? Each nazi's a dollar, each leftist another, so who should take sides? Just up the views, that's easy to choose Who cares if the heat's getting high? If you got the fanciest tomb on the planet then dammit you might as well die CHORUS It's good to have us tell you what to buy, ma'am To cater to your needs, is that a crime? It's good to bring new thinkers 'fore your eye, ma'am Who cares if half are fascists half the time? It's good if we exploit and we devour to grow with neither profit nor an end a data-driven tumor seizing power It's fine 'cause the computer is your friend Okay, Google: VERSE 3: What's the best steel for a guillotine, wood for a gallows, gun for a firing squad It's time for your judgement on Earth, the sooner that you can surrender to face it from G-d Try and escape to your digital haven, your mansion, your rocket to Mars and pray you can hold off the riots 'cause it's far too late to start healing the scars CHORUS It's bad to wave a hammer round so wild, ma'am Calm down and I can offer you a deal This company is like my second child, ma'am Except that I might love this one for real The Luddites, don't you know, were wrong to fight, ma'am The trek to innovation never stops And what makes you so certain that you're right, ma'am when you call this a bubble doomed to
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Wow! Seven People Who Survived The Endless Living Nightmare of Capitalism 05:08
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VERSE 1 You see this man? He walks five miles to and from his job each day so he can stand around ten hours for a peasant's pay His feet are blistered and his legs are shakin' But if that seems wrong, he'll tell you you're mistaken "It's good to be useful, it's good to be paid" He says with a tormented grin on his face "Relatively speaking, man, I really got it made "I just wish I wasn't so damn far from the place" CHORUS And don't it fill you up with admiration To see the proles ignore their perspiration This is the modern transubstantiation Every mortal's flesh and hope Distilled to cash and trite old inspiration VERSE 2 You see these children, spending their spare time by pickin' through the dump? They gotta save up money now they gotta get the jump On seven million they're competin' with tomorrow 'cause if you're unprepared, then that justifies your sorrow This one works the kitchen, this one cleans the floor seems like havin' fun's not in fashion anymore Get out the womb and roll up your sleeves We're not waitin' up - if you pause, then we leave CHORUS And don't it fill you up with admiration To see the proles ignore their perspiration This is the modern transubstantiation Every mortal's flesh and hope Distilled to cash and trite old inspiration VERSE 3 You see this isolated and depressed eccentric billionaire? If you could just read on a moment so that he could share the more he owns, the worse his life seems to get but God fucking forbid he lets loose those assets "I don't care if everyone thinks that I'm shit; all these things I own, I worked for every little bit" He says it, even though we know he's hatin' every minute he refuses to get out, he just gets deeper in it CHORUS And don't it fill you up with admiration To see this wealth-inflicted self-damnation This is the modern transubstantiation Every mortal's flesh and hope Distilled to cash and trite old inspiration BRIDGE (x2) Prostrate yourselves at the altar of capital! Praise unto Mammon, in famine he thrives! Getting good work now requires a miracle! Tear down your soul that your flesh will survive! CHORUS And don't it fill you up with admiration To see the proles ignore their perspiration This is the modern transubstantiation Every mortal's flesh and hope Distilled to cash and trite old inspiration
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Ice Queen 02:46
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VERSE 1 We pass each other in the hallway You wave and say hello But thoughts and earbuds block you out, and straight ahead I go And ninety minutes later I see you chatting with your friends Don't want to bust in, make things weird, and so I guess I'll pass you by again CHORUS Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole I see it seems that way to you I got a cold stare I got a hot soul But I guess that only one comes through Can't stand to get close Can't stand to stay away Can't stand to think that I might never know Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole Or is this just the way that some things go? VERSE 2 You're dancing with me in the nightclub but you don't say a word I bite the bullet, shout my name just so I know I'm heard And so we trade our numbers but neither of us calls It's been three weeks, just tell me, do you wanna know me more or not at all? CHORUS Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole I see it seems that way to you I got a cold stare I got a hot soul But I guess that only one comes through Can't stand to get close Can't stand to stay away Can't stand to think that I might never know Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole Or is this just the way that some things go? VERSE 3 (Sub out guitar for something else? Vibraphone or strings or the like?) You lie beside me on your mattress it's lying on the floor I want to stay here through the night and yet I'm staring at the door We try to hide our heartbreak before the cracks have shown When I step forward, you step back I give you space, you hate to be alone CHORUS Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole I see it seems that way to you I got a cold stare I got a hot soul But I guess that only one comes through Can't stand to get close Can't stand to stay away Can't stand to think that I might never know Am I an ice queen Am I an asshole Or is this just the way that some things go?
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Pity Party for Two 02:39
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I'll buy the pizza if you'll buy the wine We'll ask how's it going and for once we won't say that it's fine It's a shame that our friends couldn't make it but we'll make it with just me and you 'cause that's all it takes for a pity party for two It's been half a year now since we've gotten laid and I can't remember the last song worth a damn that we made I'm selling my youth off in ten-hour chunks Must seem like a dream to you At least we have time for a pity party for two It's just for a while We'll feel better soon But this bi-colored bile is filling my throat as we burn in the light of the moon The solace I find when your pain mirrors mine, when we share a brief touch and a lingering view For a second we smile, it makes this worthwhile To suffer together, two birds of a feather is better than hurting alone Pity party for two
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I Don't Write Love Songs 02:46
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VERSE 1 Each time I see your face my legs start shaking, feeling weak and every time I hear your voice it gets so hard to speak And I hope you know I love you so although I find it hard to show in any way that matters or that feels like it's enough CHORUS I don't write love songs I don't know how to If we're together or apart I think it might be another language Can't translate mine to art I don't write love songs although I'd like to Swing axe and hammer through my heart And I must have tried about a hundred times but I think I just don't know where I should start VERSE 2 To speak the truth with beauty's harder than to fight an ugly lie Feels cheap to say you make me feel alive so much that I could die And sometimes I think I'll never find the words to start to satisfy myself or you or her or them or anyone at all Because CHORUS I don't write love songs and when I try to the lines all fall apart I need a rose or Rosetta stone if I'm gonna translate that to art I don't write love songs although I'd like to Swing axe and hammer through my heart And I must have tried about a thousand times but I still think I don't know where I should start BRIDGE I know we don't speak every day so just be trusting when I say each word you send me gets me hot and red And I've been yearning ever since you last told me "hold me" - well, I'm convinced It might fall flat but I just have to sing the things that I still haven't said VERSE 3 I've spent too long in silence and I can't help but to think that my head's gonna burst if I don't put this into ink So if it doesn't come out right, I'll ask you kindly: hold on tight, I'll try again again until I find the words I need I CHORUS Might not write love songs I gotta try to Create a window to my heart You'll find me buried in dictionaries to build it tone and tone and part by part If I just retread all of the same trail then tell me what's the point of art And I think on my two millionth try I might have found a place where I can start
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Anyway 02:05
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VERSE 1 I've heard that when forests catch fire It clears up the land so that new things can grow And I've heard unrequited desire is the best gift that your muse could ever bestow And I know for a fact that this world that we're in is a balance of beauty and pain And that no matter how hard you try to destroy one or both, both will always remain, oh CHORUS Life's cruel and unfair, yeah I'm sorry to tell and it might not get better while we're still alive and even the simple shit feels hard as hell but it might just be worth it to try and survive anyway anyway... VERSE 2 I've been told "someday it'll get better" gotta get through the dirt, then you're gonna find gold And that might not be true to the letter but I hope that the broad strokes still hold And I know for a fact when it feels like the end and I don't know how I'll make it through one more day I've still got good food, and I've still got good friends and the sunrise and sunset will come anyway CHORUS Life's cruel and unfair, yeah I'm sorry to tell it might not get better while we're still alive and even the simple shit feels hard as hell but it might just be worth it to try and survive anyway It might just be worth it to try and survive anyway

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My second full album, over a year in the making. Comes with a twelfth bonus track if you get the whole thing.

Big thanks to Julie Low (@GatsbyLow on Twitter) for the fantastic cover art!

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released January 31, 2019

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Max Knightley Chicago, Illinois

Trans lesbian who makes punk, electronica, and music for video games. Stay angry, but keep your eyes open to the beauty of the world.

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