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The Yellow Machine [full reprise]

from The Yellow Machine by American Fuck-Tape

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title track from the Rockeretta Spectacular of the same name [full version]

lyrics

**THE YELLOW MACHINE (full)**
Of pearls, porcelain and platinum she’s made
Externally priceless; but inside it’s all jade.
A virtual love: just pictures, just text.
She says “you’re the First”…
Sit down. You’re just Next.

The Insect Goddess ensconced & detached
The Lady Premier has you crudely dispatched
Not born- she’s constructed; a Lean Figurine.
She’s the Empress of Empty – She’s the Yellow Machine


Thin blood, thinner background. Faux entrepreneur.
She cares not who’s looking… but- all eyes on her.
You’re not even a Secret, you’re merely a Cipher.
Like you, her vacation; though she swears she’s a Lifer.

The Insect Goddess devouring tomorrows
The Lady Premier that thrives on your sorrows
Hypnotic. Robotic. Mistress Mise En Scene
She’s the Empress of Empty – She’s the Yellow Machine

Well she was lithe, and blithe, and bright-eyed
And she never cried.
She was wistful of our tryst; full of mysterious tidbits
Delivering some delirious fits of Bliss;
A few near-misses; a few dead-on hits.
Little riffs and dips found us mired in shit
And a split; ending a bit…exposed.
But who knows? From the get-go it was a rodeo.
A sullied, silly ode to the winsome nights we rode
Right where the stars showed the mightiest and the brightest
And I feared I might explode. Yet, in I dove.
Because our way of play was a breezy repartee –
Night or day; fun underslung… bunnies & birds
Kisses & words, kittens and… See- she and me…
The Possibility. The easy freedom in between streams of things
That teemed with Meaning. Or so it seemed. Y’see –
She was The Most Beautiful Girl I Had Ever Seen.
My Queen; My Perfect Dream.
Well things just aren’t what they seem.

Bruised eyes; webbed red, stream-weep sans sleep
Mucking manic notes (upon notes) in his mind, just to keep.
No brainstorm’s dull thunder undercuts the mendacity.
Nor heartstrings unbind that unkind audacity.

The Insect Goddess devoid of compassion
The Lady Premier finds your tears out of fashion
Some hellish inverse of Ringo’s “Submarine”
‘Cause we all die… in a Yellow Machine

credits

from The Yellow Machine, released November 23, 2012
Anton L'Amiral - vox, guitar, piano, heartstrings
Ace "Big Big Mike" NoMarr - guitars, guitars, human skeleton
Dr. Kyle "The" Jones - bass, synthesizer, machinery
Dox Carrside - drums, motors

[custom artwork - Zak Kinsella]

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American Fuck-Tape created the Rockeretta Spectacular - and accompanying full-length concept-record "The Yellow Machine".
...to prove you don't have to just sit there and take it.

Not Every Time.

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