
Date of issue: 29.10.2009
Record label: Steam Powered Giraffe
Song language: English
Brass Goggles |
Come with me I’ll show you how to be a metal man |
When the gears are turning and the fires are burning |
When the world ticks around you, |
voices talking all the time |
And you live for sleep you’ve never slept |
because you cannot sleep |
Colonel Walter was shocked |
when he learned from the Nile |
Copper African elephants turning hostile |
So he built these wonderful automaton bloaks |
And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes |
Now the war is passed and over |
We’re left to sit and wonder |
What is life and what is real? |
And why do living things need feeling? |
(One, two, three) |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
How’d you like to try pumping |
lead through your veins |
Or have a heart so wet and cold it starts rusting |
When the world ticks around you, |
voices talking all the time |
You live for feelings you’ve never felt |
because you cannot feel |
And what is this leaking affecting my eye? |
Does the oil that is dripping mean this is a cry? |
Will I ever be something with feelings to hide? |
Or am I just a boiler with nothing inside? |
I want all today |
Don’t want to hear you say |
You can’t do this, you can’t do that |
You’re not a living thing with feeling |
(One, two, three) |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!) |
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!) |
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles, goggles, goggles!) |
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass googles!) |
I want all today |
Don’t want to hear you say |
I love you, I love you |
I love-love-love you |
Colonel Walter was shocked when he learned from the Nile |
Copper African elephants turning hostile |
So he built these wonderful automaton bloaks |
And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes |
Wind me up, turn the gears |
Wind me up, turn the gears |
Wind me up, turn the gears |
Wind me up, turn the gears |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da |
La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da |
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