Positng commentary to your own videos is kinda retarded, I know...a little like laughing at your own jokes..... but I forgot to post the lyrics and I wanted to say a quick blurb about them for those who just thought Gary Numan (from back in the Tubeway Army days) was being all cryptic and symbolic:
"Down in the park
Where the machmen meet
The machines are playing `kill-by-numbers
Down in the park with a friend called `five
I was in a car crash
Or was it the war?
Well, Ive never been quite the same
Little white lies like I was there
Come to zom-zoms, a place to eat
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans
Try to run
Oh, look, theres a rape machine
Id go outside if it looks the other way
You wouldnt believe
The things they do
Down in the park
Where the chant is death, death, death
Until the sun cries morning
Down in the park with friends of mine
We are not lovers
We are not romantics
We are here to serve you
A different face but the words never change"
This song is creepy as HELL! Gary started to write a novel called "Replica", if I'm not mistaken (and if I am , I know some music geek out there will correct me) based on dystopian themed authors he was influenced by like JG Ballard and Phillip K. Dick. This track DITP is about a half-human half-android recounting a day in the park with a robot-android named "Five" at some restaurant called "Zomzom's" where the Machmen (machine men) gather to watch robots stalk humans for rape and carnage just for sh*ts and giggles!I must admit, this is one of my all time favorite songs. I've always been fascinated by Artificial Intelligence Technology, and the military is too, apparently..
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