By far my favorite song off of Bee Thousand, I think that this song is pretty obviously describing the relationship that he has with someone else (presumably a significant other) in which he always feels that he has to impress or nothing he does is viewed by the significant other as being done right. Thus he wishes he could just be a robot and be programmed to do things right. And a gold star is something that a teacher would give his/her student for doing a good job on something (makes sense, seeing as how Pollard was a school teacher).
By far my favorite song off of Bee Thousand, I think that this song is pretty obviously describing the relationship that he has with someone else (presumably a significant other) in which he always feels that he has to impress or nothing he does is viewed by the significant other as being done right. Thus he wishes he could just be a robot and be programmed to do things right. And a gold star is something that a teacher would give his/her student for doing a good job on something (makes sense, seeing as how Pollard was a school teacher).