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Automata

from Out of the Trees by Julian Gaskell

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lyrics

Beneath a tiny model clock tower
Astronomy and solitaire
I brush against your sleeve
I cross you on the spiral stair
Marbles tapping at the woodwork
It's getting cold, I'm getting numb
On an elliptical orbit around your darkened sun

In a wild and graceful arc
We swing in and out of life
Every time I think you’re close
A reaction and a swipe
Is it probable or certain how
Unfamiliar we’ve become?
Clock watching, catastrophizing
Swung on your goddamn pendulum

I get a feral urge to slam and to curse
Until it's cursed and slammed away and I'm a human again
While you purge your mechanical hurt in my face
And our time just ticks away

I'm stuck like a particle
To your oscillating wave
Just a broken wooden figure
Going round on the same rails
Again and again and I can't carry your load
Still you click out my tempo
On your goddamn metronome

I get a feral urge to slam and to curse
Until it's cursed and slammed away and I'm a human again
While you purge your mechanical hurt in my face
And our time just ticks away

You jammed a stick into the mechanism
It can't function anymore
The cogs and wheels and springs
Scattered piecemeal on the floor
But time marches on, you keep writing the same lines
Again and again and again, god damn automaton

I get a feral urge to slam and to curse
Until it's cursed and slammed away and I'm a human again
While you purge your mechanical hurt in my face
And our time just ticks away

I get a feral urge to slam and to curse
Until it's cursed and slammed away and I'm a human again
While you purge your mechanical hurt in my face
And our time just ticks away
Ticks away
Time just ticks away
Ticks away
Time just ticks away.

credits

from Out of the Trees, released October 1, 2020
JG - vocal, piano, cello, drums
CG - violins, violas
TS - upright bass

String arrangement by Gaskell & Gibson.

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Julian Gaskell UK

Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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