You're just walking round, your little mazes
figurin' out, how to get by, how to get laid, and get famous, get yourself paid, impress the guys, you're taught to divide the world into buddies and wives, sluts and wimps, and ever since, you've kept a score-card, how else to prove you're such the pimp?
You are just a robot, executing a program
Get on the train, the crowd is tightening, you push yourself up against the girl, and when you're not getting play, you keep trying, you don't understand the consensual way
You are just a robot, executing a program
You are just a robot, an imitation of a man
She told me one night, when we were lying, quiet and cold, something not right, it had been months since the good times, once there was sun now there was night, And she said to me as she turned on the light, something you don't know, keeps me from feeling right, I once knew a guy, seen him 'round, he knew all my friends, he came from town, one night at a party, we both were there, he followed me into the bathroom, he grabbed my hand, and she said "I still remember just how the floor felt, and how my head would hit the tub." Now what is that robot? is he live or is he done? does he breathe the air that I breathe? is he kept warm by the same sun?
You are just a robot, executing a program, an imitation of a man, executing a program, an imitation of a man, an imitation of a man, an imitation of a man, an imitation of a man, an imitation of a man.
figurin' out, how to get by, how to get laid, and get famous, get yourself paid, impress the guys, you're taught to divide the world into buddies and wives, sluts and wimps, and ever since, you've kept a score-card, how else to prove you're such the pimp?
You are just a robot, an imitation of a man
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I think that the situation in this song is the same one that inspired "Mother's Day". This is about the guy that raped his girlfriend and you can feel the hatred for him in lyrics: for hurting the girl and the current relationship. What he had done to her may now be playing a part in the current relationship (trust, intimacy, etc). Matthew, I assume it's his experience, is disgusted that any one, especially a man, could do something so terrible ("an imitation of a man") and feels unjust for himself and his girlfriend.
this song is amazing. i like how matt includes dialogue in a few of his songs. a very real meaning behind it, too. i've gone through something very simliar to this so it really hits home.
This is an amazing, beautiful song. I think it is clearly about the same event (or at least topic) as Mother's Day, but there is a fundamental disparity between the two. Mother's Day addresses the man in question as if he was indeed another human being, with thoughts and feelings, just trying to make his way through life like everyone else. It says what it says assuming it is addressing a rational fellow person, trying to persuade him that what he did was wrong. This song, however, takes the opposite stance--the man it addresses is not a person, but rather something far less. The man in Robot is just that--he has no feelings or rational thought. There is no point in trying to convince him of anything, because he will never learn.
I tend to agree with the perspective adopted in Mother's Day.
compare the start of this track with the start of delays hideaway....surely the same
Very interesting point of view from this band, about the fact that unfortunately young men are "programmed" by socitey, friends and parents to see women as trophies, and fight for those trophies, and get as many as you can. For a lot of men, this is the "normal". That\'s why they keep doing it. That\'s why it sometimes escalates to abusive situations. And that\'s why it\'s hard to erradicate it. All we can do is make sure our children grow up seeing women as human beings, and make sure we put in jail all those adult robots out there getting into abusive situations.