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Machine Love (Rough Demo)

by Billie Ray Martin

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A rough demo from 2007. I had been sent the backing track by a russian act called 'Dolce and Banana' (yes really). I wrote the lyrics and melodies in about an hour, sang the vocal in 5 mins (you can tell it's a rough demo, not my usual vocal standard), and that was that. It never got finished. Germans to have a sense of humour, as these lyrics prove. I was actually in stitches writing it. Enjoy!!

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Machine Love

I was blinded by an electric sun
And there he was looking glorious
A brand new, shiny, silver replication

He was a robot HRP 21
He turned around and he said: come on
I’m from japan and they made me just for you girl

Machine love
I wanna know what the buttons are for, yeah
I wanna feel if a lump of steel can arouse my zone, yeah
Machine love
I wanna see what the tin has in him
I wanna sense if a replicant’s enough for a romance

I was sizzling in an electric field
His sensor hands running over me
I froze in a state of shock and the sparks were flying

He turned and said: sayonara, schatz
I said: don’t stop til you get too much
Your touch is ahhh and your kiss is electrifying

Machine love
I wanna know what the buttons are for, yeah
I wanna feel if a lump of steel can arouse my zone, yeah
Machine love
I wanna see what the tin has in him
I wanna sense if a replicant’s enough for a romance

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released February 18, 2015

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