Name: The Great Machine
Duration: P00H06M22S
Description: While playing with a synthesizer, this song emerged through the various filters and oscillators. You could say the machine sung to me and warned me of the perils of our tenuous relationship when technology has become so powerful while we of the flesh remain as fragile as ever.

The Great Machine

from The Great Machine by Tycoon Machete

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While playing with a synthesizer, this song emerged through the various filters and oscillators. You could say the machine sung to me and warned me of the perils of our tenuous relationship when technology has become so powerful while we of the flesh remain as fragile as ever.

lyrics

Once we had a trampoline
Whenever I was up you were always down
So we built a Great Machine
That we could orbit around

When you were in retrograde,
I was shining like a star.
I reached out and grabbed your hand
Before gravity tore us apart.

Tell me how
Was this our plan
To build a heart
Out of sand?

There were knives in the kitchen
In the bedroom separate drawers
On the fridge there was a ledger
Where we kept the score.

So we circled around the table
There's blood in our lies
Our Great Machine held together
With duct tape and zip ties.

Tell me how
Was this our plan
To break a heart
Into sand?

When there was no means of repair
Our machine had broken down
I did not even reach for you
As you turned to the ground

When we finally fell
All the way back to earth
We put our backs to the Great Machine
And left it on the curb.

Tell me how
Was this our plan
To bury a heart
In the sand?

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from The Great Machine, released July 18, 2023

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Tycoon Machete Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City artists sail the dark waters of the 21st Century guided by the ghosts of 1960's psychedelia. 1980's electronica, 1990's grunge and 1930's blues.

Members:
(Barefoot) John Whipple
Erin Stout
James Perry
Sean McCarthy ... more

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