Story Behind The Song
Recorded by Ribcage for the unreleased album For Machines to Dream About, originally for mp3.com. Recorded in Hollywood, California at Tone King Studios, 1999.
Song Description
A psychadelic romp through existential reasoning reminiscent of early Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Mercury Rev and Afghan Wigs. Traces of Teeenage Fanclub at their most dour.
| Song Length |
5:25 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Unique - Avant garde |
| Tempo |
Multiple Tempos |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Blissful, Restless |
Subject |
Existence, Spirituality |
| Similar Artists |
Nirvana, The Afghan Whigs |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Heed me sweet buttercup
Despite all the things we talk about
All the things we talk about
They'll lay orchids nightly
At our feet
Despite all the things I am about
All the things I am about
No no we're the sun breaking
Through grime on windows
Seen to preserve shelter
From the likes of
We are
slow it down
slow it down
Spiralling
Counter the all the processes of gray
Countering
Iolite turns out deeper grades of play
And it has no inhibition
It destroys for
Exhibition
Integrates you
Violates you
And then tears your world apart
Countering
Beware that you do not just emulate
And we speak with no derision
This is our act of contrition
Post historic
Allegoric
And from this word do we start
slow it down
slow it down
Ends meet with a resigned sigh
Despite all the things we talk about
All the things we talk about
Are we just a necessary other
For machines to dream about
For machines to dream
No, no
We're the sun breaking through grime
On windows seem to preserve shelter
From the likes of Gardenia.