Show Me How the Robots Dance

(idea) by Wagstaff (2.8 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Apr 22 2002 at 2:26:31

Easily my favorite track on the album, though Hypnotist comes close.

"show me how the robots dance
while we are celebrating this illusion
show me how to love and i'll show you how to beg
together we could jump through hoops"

The song expresses a wish to be dumbed-down, to be reduced to normality. To settle down, in less poetic terms. It's a nihilistic sentiment--nothing matters, perhaps nothing is real to begin with, but it's worth it to live out the illusion if you've got something (or someone) else to hold on to.

This is the contrast of depravity and pointlessness with a sense of redemption, and I think few people could find that completely without worth or interest.

Hey, we're Pizza Hut! We've put cheese in places you've never even dreamed of!	Things the IS people would love to say out loud	Diesel Sweeties	Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
Don't be sexy. I said stop that.	Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and Their Forbidden Love	Wir Tanzen im 4-Eck	I see you baby, shakin' that Astoria: You are the dancing Queens
We never asked to be babysitters	Paper wings, of course they've fallen	gnosticism	Boethius's proof of the existence of God
Among the lost: Schrödinger's Assassin	Adven Turing	Dreamer, never learned to be ambitious	marketable
Morris dancing	electric guitar	Smoke Signals	digital vs film
The Terrible Secret of Space	Pacific Ocean	Pee-Wee's Playhouse	October 17, 2002

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