Hot Milk
The American Machine
Well, this is a stinging angry blast and it reminds us that Corporation POP is only a week away. It’s also one of those songs that coalesces a lot of communal distress and worry about how things are going with the world right now.
As explained in the full quote below, “this song is not anti-American, it is anti-arsehole, anti-hate, anti-oligarch.” Like the other singles to precede the album, ‘Insubordinate Ingerland’, ‘Swallow This’, and ’90 Seconds to Midnight’ it forms the heaviest collection of songs from Hot Milk, and the most political.
Thing is, when things get like this, everything becomes political and brave artists are needed who will stand up and say the occasional “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me.”
It is difficult to love the world right now on the global stage. The imperialistic and dangerous rhetoric coming out the USA cannot be ignored. The language and aggression is becoming more ridiculous every day, it feels like the days of decorum and level-headed governance are in the past.
When we look to our cousins across the pond I don’t recognise a common goal, it gets stranger with each passing week. This song is not anti-American, it is anti-arsehole, anti-hate, anti-oligarch. Essentially, America can keep its weird shit over there. We do not want a piece of the American machine. The system is breaking. We have seen your country sevenfold and the love and understanding for those who are struggling is waning within your walls I thought you were built on so-called Christian values? We live in scary and stupid times, how could we not put our worries into song form?
There is always hope, however. I know common sense prevails within many people and good does reside in the USA. It’s up to the rest of us continue and ride this out and to do what we can.
Han Mee
The album is out on Friday!
The American Machine Video
Watch Hot Milk – ‘The American Machine’.
The American Machine Lyrics
WHILST THERE’S AIR IN MY LUNGS
AND WORDS ON MY TONGUE
I WON’T BOW TO NO-ONEThis is the death of the voice of all reason
Now the shit show’s renewed for four seasons
We always rinse and repeat, aren’t ya bored of this?
Believing the lies of a masochistSending love from DC to the Middle East
With a kiss and a hug and an F15
We always rinse and repeat, aren’t ya bored of this?
So sign the death certificateYou’re half the world away
And that’s too fuckin’ close to me
The innocence decays
They’ve taken everything
WHILST I’VE AIR IN MY LUNGS
AND WORDS ON MY TONGUE
I WON’T BOW TO NO-ONEI heard the whispers now, and they’re coming alive
The refraction of words that alchemise,
Yeah we rinse and repeat, aren’t ya bored of this?
Yeah I’m really fuckin’ bored of thisCoz the opioids got them hypnotized
Don’t you wonder how they sleep at night
The delusions confusing
I’m watching them using
Big pharma’s colluding to globalizeYou’re half the world away
And that’s too fuckin close to me
The innocence decays
They’ve taken everythingSTAY AWAY FROM ME
AMERICAN MACHINE
STAY AWAY FROM ME
I’M BEGGING YOU PLEASEIs this the end of history?
Or the downfall of humanity?
Watch the suffering on tiny screens
Pretend it’s not reality.
Is this the end of history?
Or the downfall of humanity?Please hold me I can’t compete with the heartless
Reject their hold
I won’t give them control
Reject their hold
I won’t give them controlYou’re half the world away
And that’s too fuckin close to me
The innocence decays
They’ve taken everythingSTAY AWAY FROM ME
AMERICAN MACHINE
STAY AWAY FROM ME
They’ve taken everythingWHILST I’VE AIR IN MY LUNGS
AND WORDS ON MY TONGUE
I WON’T BOW TO NO-ONE
REJECT THEIR HOLD
I WON’T GIVE THEM CONTROL
WHILST I’VE AIR IN MY LUNGS
AND WORDS ON MY TONGUE
I WON’T BOW TO NO-ONE
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