Alpha Man

by Detweiler

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A joyful song about the upcoming demise of humanity.

lyrics

Fight or flight,
Sink or swim.
Can you show me where the entrance is?

Are you Alpha Man or Machine?
Are you some kind of Primitive Technology?
Are you Alpha Man or Machine
Are you some kind of Primitive Technology?

There's a hope for abundance but successive thoughts keep telling me,
that the odds are stacked against us.
The future's bright dim lit by a phone screen,
Scrambling around this shelter that you've built for me.

You said: Are you Alpha Man or Machine?
Are you some kind of Primitive Technology
Where do you let the light in here, it's all I've ever seen
But you won't be so passive when the masses congregate to kick your face in.

Try! It's like you won't even try.
There's no use trying to think when there's no water in your sink then you'll die.
You're telling your loved ones "Bye!"
Avoid the conversation, lose your notion of a nation.
I spy. We're coming for your supplies.
We're hiding in your bunker, 50 million gonna jump you.
We're there. We're coming in everywhere.
I can't lie down on my face against the entire human race it's not fair.

I cannot begin to imagine,
the scale we can co-operate.
I cannot begin to imagine,
the scale we can co-operate.

When I asked you for a monument to what we can achieve when we co-operate,
you just took me by the hand and brought me to the all-night Tesco's to buy refrigerated pink lemonade...
and for a moment I felt the silence only money can buy.
Time, all the time, all the money and no necessity.
Bored out of my mind, is this how it's supposed to be?

Can we ascend to the heights we need?
Do we have the technology?
Are you animal or Machine?
or just some kind of pale-faced, hunchback, desperate, sneaky, ugly, foul mouthed, evil hunk of primitive technology.

Animal or machine?
Animal or machine?

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released March 19, 2019
David Holt - Music and Lyrics

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Detweiler London, UK

Northern ravey rockers

David Holt
Marianne Holt


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London, UK

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