broken machines

This is the reason you’re alone, this is the rise and the fall

Don’t let your mask slip. Don’t you dare lecture us in tongues.

Fate gave me a spade and I dug deep

Basically I’ve come to get you out of here

They say that you’re an olympian so take a running jump and we could do a runner in a stolen car with one hand on the wheel

My tongue’s the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart

Keep the blood in your head and keep your feet on the ground.
Today’s the day it gets tired.
Then today’s the day we drop down.
Give up my body in bed.
All for an empty hotel.
Wasting words on lowercases and capitals.

Going out with someone who shares my love of The Mars Volta, Portishead, Massive Attack and PJ Harvey…to name but a few…is definitely a brilliant thing. Inspires me to get on with the new Broken Machines album in fact, which I start working on this afternoon.

I may play some of it live at some point…(ooooooh)

Don’t tell me that you don’t like mirrors

We are young, confident, affluent, and with no memory of tougher times
We’ve grown up in an era of never ending financial growth and expected things to stay that way
We’ve grown up in owner-occupied homes with total acceptance of technology, global warming and terrorism
Our whole society has been based on consumerism for the past fifteen years,
making us dream consumers, yet we don’t know the difference between a credit card and a debit card, and we have no idea how much a pint of milk costs
On average we have eight hundred illegally downloaded songs, and one in eight of us spends more than one hundred pounds a month on our mobile phone bill
We’ve never read a newspaper, and we’ve never used our chance to vote
We allow our governments to make decisions without giving us all the facts
They send troops abroad who will die in order that we can steal resources from the people who have them, people who meant us little or no harm until we invaded their country
We allow those troops to commit horrendous atrocities and yet our leaders hang our alleged enemies for much less
We’ve spent years entrusting our futures to our parents, our governments, the banks and the corporations who have continually lobbied for their own interests
and we’ve let them make selfish decisions that have left our society teetering on the edge of ruin
We’re blinded from the information that would really shock us by stories of sex and sleaze which doesn’t make the smallest difference to our lives and so we have no desire to do anything about the things that really do
We’ve watched as greed wipes billions of the world’s stock markets destroys jobs and lives, and proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human nature as communism
These are tough times but we seek solace in our friends and co-conspirators
We make small differences in each other’s lives, and dream that we can make real progress