Machine

"**Machine**" (also known as "**Machine Machine Machine**") is a song by Mars Argo. It is featured as the fourth track on their debut album *Technology Is a Dead Bird*.

## Background

An acoustic performance of the song was uploaded to the Grocerybag YouTube channel on October 14th, 2009, the audio of which was later included as a track on the *Internet Sessions* EP on August 18th, 2010.

The album version of the song originally featured a monologue from Connie upon release. However, this monologue was eventually removed from the track after the duo updated the album mixes on their Bandcamp page sometime in 2010.

On June 28th, 2013, Titanic Sinclair stated in a now-deleted tweet that "Machine" was one of the first songs he wrote with Mars Argo and that it's about the apocalypse.

## Lyrics

* Current version
* Connie monologue

Why can't I see you?

You took me to a place that wasn't safe

For me and you

We saw the Milky Way at night

You put up a fight with me

Now we're leaving

What happened to the Monday nights?

We would fall asleep at three

I think that we could be the same

I think I'm insane

My brain is telling me

I'm a machine

Machine, machine

My friend's got a forty with his fifty on

Said the world's gonna end but I think he's wrong

I know it's true

The things I do for you and me

Now we're leaving

Machine, machine

Machine, machine

Machine, machine

Machine, machine

Machine, machine

Machine, machine

We're all suckers to technology.

Admiring the next thing that just happened.

Where are my devices?

Where is my email and contacts?

I want them now.

I need them.

Where is my Wi-Fi?

On an airplane?

Perspective is everything, then it changes with us here.

Everything is happening so fast, and yet, nothing is happening.

We are a nothing world, with nothing degrees, working nothing jobs, creating nothing, while going nowhere achieving nothing in an infantry of nothing.

I want off of this angry planet, I want to be reprogrammed immediately.

## Official versions

* Album version – 3:23
	+ Instrumental – 3:24
* "Would You Live Forever?" instrumental demo – 2:14
* Original mix with Connie – 3:23
* *Internet Sessions* acoustic – 2:02

## Trivia

* On September 9th, 2014, Sinclair stated on Twitter that he "just wrote [a] sequel" to the song, following up with a tweet saying he "just wrote a hit". It is unknown what song he was referring to.
* On March 25th, 2017, Sinclair filmed two clips of him playing the song on acoustic guitar and sent them to a fan.

## References

1. ↑ grocerybagdottv (October 14, 2009). "Machine Machine Machine". *YouTube*. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
2. ↑ Mars Argo (August 18, 2010). "Internet Sessions". *Bandcamp*. Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
3. ↑ Titanic Sinclair (June 28, 2013). "Here is an oldie. This is one of the first songs I ever wrote with @marsargo. It is about the apocolypse". *Twitter*. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
4. ↑ Titanic Sinclair (September 9, 2014). "For fans of Mars Argo: I just wrote the sequel to "Machine"". *Twitter*. Archived from the original on April 22, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
5. ↑ Titanic Sinclair (September 9, 2014). "This is going to sound so douchey but I just wrote a hit". *Twitter*. Archived from the original. Retrieved June 17, 2020.

## Navigation

* Technology Is a Dead Bird
* Internet Sessions
* Mars Argo CD

 Non-album