Ballad of the Love Machines

from Slaughterhouse Astronomy by Crisco Thunder

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We are the Love Machines
Self-programmed for better things
Fueled by a love supreme

Tiger calls a meeting for Friday night
None of the other animals show ya know
They'd all rather party than fight

Unicorn's spacing out on PCP
Building scale models of dreams
In the hope it'll help them come to be

One's claws out looking for a good fight
One's making plans for living after midnight
They got the battle singing through their veins
You know the weapons are different
but the struggles the same

This is me and you now what we gonna do?
The jungle calls all I hear is the zoo
Feel less like an animal and more like a machine
Seems the least we can do is shake the cage and sing

We are the love machines
Self-programmed for better things
Fueled by a love supreme

We are the love machines
Open eyes and laser beams
Fueled by a love supreme

Now Tiger's rolling through the DMZ
Thinks there might be more to do
than striking fear in heart of the enemy

Unicorn's laying off the PCP
Thinks building dreams might take
more sweat and blood than fantasy

They're taking walks and talking in the moonlight
Making plans to gang up when the time's right
All the poachers tried to keep them apart
Now they quake and quiver when the good stuff starts

This is me and you now what we gonna do?
The jungle calls all I hear is the zoo
Feel less like an animal and more like a machine
Seems the least we can do is shake the cage and sing

We are the love machines
Self-programmed for better things
Fueled by a love supreme

We are the love machines
Open eyes and laser beams
Fueled by a love supreme

I am a love machine
and I know why the caged bird sings
bruised and bloody songs about living in the quarantine
Steel bars and the gaps between
what is and what could be
So we breathe a little air
into all the things we'd like to see

Tiger loves Unicorn
Unicorn loves Tiger

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from Slaughterhouse Astronomy, released January 1, 2013

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