07. Electric Six - Broken Machine (I Shall Exterminate...)

Electric Six - Broken Machine

[@Philosophocat]

It doesn't do anything, it just sits there ✊🚩 one of my favourite quotes ever

[@dmgroberts5471]

Thus begins every story of machines destroying humanity...born out of frustration from failing to understand our irrational emotions!

[@Alyxcz]

The broken machine is here to slay! :D

[@Drreviewman]

When a man is retiring or otherwise unfit to work, people treat him like a monstrous broken machine. I think, maybe.

[@hugodunsany5576]

That time Dick Valentine and Bender Rodriguez burned down a topless bar...

[@VinniHP]

People are so poetic down here... he's talking about erectile dysfunction.

[@CidHighwind]

VinniHP hahaha thank you, this gives me a completely different view point when listening to this song now.

[@Pazuzu4All]

VinniHP It kind of makes sense, but he mentions technology. Does he mean he gets erectile dysfunction because he's too used to internet porn? Either way, where did you get this theory?

[@VinniHP]

Pazuzu4All I dunno lol , this band has so many songs about sex,I was mostly fucking around.

[@Katharsis1801]

Damn, this is one hell of a machine...

[@obfuscated3090]

Valentine did say most of his songs are about nothing. Enjoy them, don't try to read shit into them that's not there. They are meaningless and aurally arresting!

[@afaultytoaster]

it is a metaphor for my broken heart

[@amandahugankiss4110]

Hard to pick a best on this album. Real hard. I think this track. This is a damned good track. :)

[@delanoseagraves7196]

MECHANICAL MELTDOWN!!!!

[@AidrianHence]

Dick Valentine, you fuckin' lyrical genius. xD

[@milkmandan8194]

You're broken machine has questions for me Wants to know a little bit about my history Wants to know why I write these ridiculous songs Wants to know everything that turns me on And what turns me on is you So now that's what turns it on too It's methods are filling me up with doubt This experience is starting to creep me out It doesn't do anything It just sits there It doesn't do anything It just sits there and looks at me M-m-mechanical meltdown It should be blown away It should be scrapped by sundown But broken machine is here to stay Broken machine thinks it's fair to me But it only sees what it wants to see Looks into me to see what I'm made of It's trying so hard to understand our love And it sees that I love you And so you're the one that it loves too It wants to understand the workings of our heart It doesn't care if it tears ours apart It doesn't do anything It just sits there It doesn't do anything It just sits there and looks at me M-m-mechanical meltdown It should be thown away S-s-satanica shutdown But broken machine is here to stay You know what machine My mind's not big enough for the both of us But you tell me you're here to stay I guess that's what I get for surrounding myself With technology M-m-mechanical meltdown It should be thown away You should be scrapped by sundown But broken machine is here to stay Broken machine is here to stay Broken machine is here to stay Broken machine is here to stay Broken machine is here to stay

[@MikaTamni]

It's about this screen that you're looking at.

[@amandahugankiss4110]

this is an x-files episode. or any number of books along the same lines. demon seed by koontz comes to mind.

[@chickenbot1]

A broken machine presumably.

[@mattk6343]

their best song by far. Still, what is it about? Erectile dysfunction theory sounds plausible, but so do all the other theories in comments.

[@esteemedyams]

It's funny how this is way, way more relevant today than it was when it was written Actually it's not funny, it's terrifying

[@qpwo6]

@minimacas after thinking of it for a while, I think it might be about webcams, since 'it just sits there and looks at me', or possibly a robot psycologist.

[@minimacas]

@qpwo6 it doesn't do anything, it just sits there.

[@qpwo6]

great song, but i cant work out what its about

[@lj_fin827]

the best song about erectile distinction

[@james-kc7xk]

Cocaine is a helluva drug....

[@frankriccardi8587]

Lol n SoLol

[@eternalb0w]

The government...

[@rocthatisrolling]

It got me thinking about the bureaucratic system in Western countries and the debate around gay marriage. Why is gov't involved in marriage at all? Why can't it just be between the two people? (obviously it makes divorce more orderly, along with deciding child custody)

[@lincolnchains3731]

A man addicted to internet porn. Brain completely rewired. Impotent. Relationships destroyed. But the machine must continue to be fed. And really, that's the point of it all. To break the machines.

[@sonic4252]

xbox one

[@rocthatisrolling]

I mean it may be written from the point of view of a gay man/woman/transex person who feels creeped out by the gaze of the system.