Presenting: The Dancing Machine Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PickleMcNugget 

Cover art for Presenting: The Dancing Machine lyrics by Lawrence Arms, The

The song to me is about how boring and repetitive life can become. The person is talking about how he feels himself detaching from friends. I feel like this song clearly represents the angry side of depression. Holding stuff in until you can't bear it anymore and just say, "Fuck what we say and all that we do".

I love the last line "I'm saving my self for something beautifully true," and the instrumental in the end because it gives off a kind of hopeful feeling. The character feels that he won't just give himself over to the drudgery of life and wants to be truly happy. Genuine happiness; not for the world to see but for himself.