This song is about a dude explaining to his partner that he prefers a robot lover.

Love by the numbers

(woman's voice, spoken word)

Ahh...Testing.. One, Two, Three...
This is a test message.
Attention, user of this product.
If you agree with the terms of service,
fall in love with me NOW!

(end of spoken word, song start)

Oh you, in your vivacity,
and I, in my simplicity
forgot about fidelity,
Her heart beats by the numbers.

200, 300, 400 BPM,
300, 400, it's 12:30 AM...
It's time for tea.

She has zero fluidity
When run at full capacity
It's her reliability
That's tying me to her.

300, 400, 500 BPM,
400, 500 it's 1:30 AM...
It's time to die.

She's fed with electricity,
Her wonderful docility,
Mechanical agility,
She's perfect for my needs.

400, 500, 600 BPM,
500, 600 it's 2:30 AM...
It's time to bury.

She has high flammability,
and dangerous toxicity,
What I said was duplicity,
I Lied to you, again.

500, 600, 700 BPM,
600, 700 it's 3:30 AM...
It's time to live.



WOO! Now, for some explanations:
The dude doesn't want his mechanical lover to be fluid (ie, have fluid movements) because they are too lifelike.

Duplicity means insincerity, but also has other meanings, they apply to a certain extent too.

Roll in the opinions, my pretties

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LOL!!
i like! i can really hear a fear factory beat pumping to it (demanufacture era). good stuff!

its alright.. all the forced rhymes make it sound like u wrote it in 5 mins. the concept of the lyrics is good tho.

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My first thought was back to Neil Young's "Trans" album that he used a lot of Heil Talkbox on. I think the one song specifically was "sample and Hold' or something like that. I haven't listened to it for a long time. Good though different for him.

I liked this piece. You had just enough imagery in it to get a good description of the situation, but it had a sterile, mechanical feeling to it, too.

Cool.

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Thanks AndrewC and L,B'XXX!



The only forced rhyme there is duplicity. I wrote it over a couple of days. it took me ages to pick words that rhymed and meant what I wanted them to mean, and that's the rhyming system that makes my lyrics "mine". Here is an explanation, and if you still think that they're all forced, I don't know what's wrong with you.

Oh you, in your vivacity
(He's noting the real woman's liveliness)
And I, in my simplicity,
(he's simple, so he has simple needs)
forgot about fidelity,
(He cheated without regret)
Her heart beats by the numbers.
(in reference to the chorus)

200, 300, 400 BPM,
300, 400, it's 12:30 AM...
It's time for tea.
(examples of her heart beating by the numbers, BPM = beats per minute)

[B]She has zero fluidity
(She's not very lifelike, which is a desirable quality)
When run at full capacity
(However, she slips and becomes a little lifelike when not run at full power)
It's her reliability
(Well, she never gets a headache)
That's tying me to her.
(That's the man quality that he likes about his robot)

She's fed with electricity,
(robots are generally are, it's cheap and convenient and he likes that)
Her wonderful docility,
(she's very obedient and calm)
Mechanical agility,
(Remember how you could twist and bend those bendable barbies? The effect wasn't too lifelike, but you could do some cool stuff with them, that's mechanical agility for you)
She's perfect for my needs.
(She satisfied his simple needs)

She has high flammability,
(she's not as good as it seems)
and dangerous toxicity,
(Ditto)
What I said was duplicity,
(I deceived you)
I Lied to you, again.
(He lied twice, you guess why and how).

You think I just trow words in because they rhyme? Most of these are not considered rhymes actually, fluidity, capacity and reliability are technically not rhymes, if you check a rhyming dictionary, they won't come up as such.

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i see.. well now that you've explained it, it seems as tho u put some time into it.

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I believe the word is 'allieration' that means similar sounding words.

What I want to know know, ohmighty metalhead, is how long ago was it that you were playing with Barbie dolls?

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good call bobbi

hey, this is a thread about cool chicks writing cool lyrics so ill ask here....
i wonder whatever happened to BrutallyHacked

When I was a 6 year old, my grandmother tried to make me into a proper lady and gave me a Barbie. It was a bend me shape me anyway you want me Barbie. It didn't survive the brutal decapitation.

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Long as you love me
It's all right.


Damn you to hell! I'll have that earwormed in my bean now !
hahaha

Just kidding about the damn you to hell. Heck just sounded lame.

heehee You did that with them, too? Did you switch the heads around and stuff? That was always fun. There's still some of my old ones and clothes and case at my mom's. I've got an old early 60's one.

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Oh yes! Switched heads, limbs, put the limbs on the wrong way, and the hair on those always ended up very matted because I would sometimes drag them across various surfraces when I played with them. I was only 6 then, so Barbies weren't exactly the best toys for me, and soon the rush wore off and I went back to my most beloved toys - teddy bears, art supplies and legos. Barbies are freaky anyway, especially in the way their legs connect to their bodies.

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"Barbies are freaky anyway, especially in the way their legs connect to their bodies."

HAHA yeah! She sure could contort though. I bet the guys are gonna check that one out now. The sick puppies. heehee Those old Barbies were trippy, too, because the hair was just a ring around the outside pulled into a ponytail. She was bald in the middle!

Guess I better get back on topic.

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Barbies sure have a nice waist though .

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I never had a sister. So i had no barbies to play with
I played g.i. joe, and we'd build villages outta grass and sticks (kinda like 'nam) with the hose running near by (the river). Assorted action hero's (ghostbusters, ninja turtles) lived in the villages (we couldn't afford more than a couple'a g.i. joes.). We had a cool helicopter that i cherished, it would fly over the village and bomb it and we'd use a lighter we stole to light the whole village on fire! I miss being a kid.

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