Clockwork Family

Lyrics

[Verse 1] "I ate the paste 'cause I was hungry!" I cried, and ran out of the room My mom and dad, they surely love me But we don't always have a lot of food And all the other kids are assholes Makin' fun of my hand-me-down jeans Life would be a lot less hassle If I could just replace these pointless people with machines [Chorus] The perfect tickin' of a clockwork family Everything happens right on time Perfect rhythm of a life that can be Counted on to finally work out fine So much more reliably than mine [Verse 2] My uncle Tim is now in prison After seven years of being unemployed That would never happen to a robot They can only break and be repaired or be destroyed And they don't pass out on the sofa Buried in a pile of empty beers The absolute perfection of avuncular affection In a shiny little box of spinning gears [Chorus] The perfect tickin' of a clockwork family Everything happens right on time Perfect rhythm of a life that can be Counted on to finally work out fine So much more reliably than mine [Instrumental] [Verse 3] There is dirt in every corner There's a sofa in the yard When everything is out of order Life is unpredictable and hard But there's peace out on the highway In the soft hissing rush of the machines Quietly gliding, never quite colliding Only fractions of a second in between [Chorus] The perfect tickin' of a clockwork family Everything happens right on time Perfect rhythm of a life that can be Counted on to finally work out fine So much more reliably than mine