Diary of a Teenage Robot
Lyrics
if i could learn to eat my words then i wouldn't be so brash
oh such undulating flaws flow right out between my breaths
but i never say never cuz it's far too long
and i better do better with my gestalt
will today feel like it's yesterday?
my metal shell, my robot heart
my highschool dreams all fell apart
but i never say never cuz it's far too long
and i better do better with my gestalt
a subjective sense of self is such fickle frame of mind
construct an a priori model of the angst i feel inside
map out each dialogue in synthetic replica
maybe i'll prove them wrong with all the feelings that i felt
oh today feels like it's yesterday
my metal shell, my robot heart
my highschool dreams all fell apart
but i never say never cuz it's far too long
and i better do better with my gestalt
oh today feels like it's yesterday
my metal shell, my robot heart
my highschool dreams all fell apart
but i never say never cuz it's far too long
and i better do better with my gestalt
Song Notes
this is a song i think is so catchy and accessible, yet is it a "single"? i have no idea. i truly have no idea what it is like for someone else to listen to my own songs. i don't know what other people like. all i know is that i like it!
this song was in part inspired by my liberal arts college friend double-majoring in math & philosophy who spray-painted the word "gestalt" in big blue letters outside my dorm room and taught me what that word meant.
Recording Notes
the sessions to finish up Eighteen pt.2 included matt and lauren so we got to have them on backup vocals. matt was put on this earth to sing vocal harmonies, it all comes so naturally to him. we had the temptation to hard-pan them left and right but decided, since we already did that on some other songs, to keep them more in the center.
i have an old take of this song with different vocals and a different drum beat! ;)
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