Track 2 on our upcoming album, Synthetic Texture, out 10/01/15.

Lyrics:

Silhouette: Dripping sweat onto my clothes
Juxtaposed to the cleanest dream
Squealing like bald tires on a wet road

I felt your breath but never saw your face
I can't comprehend how that could ever change
We've only ever stayed the same

At a loss: This crossroad bore a curious sign
At the time seemed a simple choice
Near-vocal in its persuasive pull

Which fitted illness crippled both your wings?
I'd do anything to keep you under soil
And hope you'll grow into something

We're only remembered by our stains

I'm a stain.

Headless

She hears a voice in the background
She doesn't care when it gets loud

#7 on Synthetic Texture, now available: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Animal

From our album Synthetic Texture, available now: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Lyrics:

I've had thoughts: soda pop luxury yachts
I've had friends turn lollipops into pens

I only want one thing: 
Melt away and forget everything
I only want one thing: 
To think
I've had so many dreams:
Feel/touch/see/be everything
I only have one need:
To breathe

That skin is greasy; don't tease me
Hard candy sunlight, I won't bite

I only need this taste
Same meal every day, never waste
Feet melt and I can't leave:
Relief
I've had so many dreams:
Feel/touch/see/be everything
I only have one need:
To breathe

I only want one thing: to melt and forget everything



Melt

Let's try something dangerous.

Opening track from Synthetic Texture, available now: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Throwupslowdown

Rip the gravity from under my roots.
Force-feed me insight.

From our album Synthetic Texture, available now: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Malnutrition

#14 on Synthetic Texture, available now: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Lyrics:

Just waking up, now calm yourself
It's nothing bad. There's nothing bad
It's just the day. Can you call to mind
When you used to leave this room sometimes?

You can see what's wrong with me
Taste the blood in your cheek
She can't collapse himself
Don't look so disappointed

Have you seen the news today?

We never move. We hardly breathe
Born on a line; on neither side
We've felt alive. We've been awake
Now we'll never need to leave this place

Human Subtlety

If the world doesn't go my way,
I've got some kind of solution.

Closing track on Synthetic Texture, available now: https://mechanicaljoints.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-texture

Solution

This is a furnace, dripping
My face is a puddle: toxic, stripping
The skin off the bones
No mystery here, the worse is just bottled
Don't waste your time. Don't waste mine

[I felt the light shine. It moved me to a star
Would you like a ride? We could go out so far
I took a midnight drive to the interstate
Or was it stellar? I can't keep my head on straight]

These capillaries are bursting
Good god, I'm in trouble
This world is thirsty, attached at the wound
I ripped the waveform apart and
I stretched it across my walls to see
It's not me

[I saw the sky first before I left the earth
Leave a trail of nothing always behind me
On another rock, I take a break, a breather
Was I stalling? I can't keep my head on straight]

This is a volatile compound
It's foaming and flowing and swirling around now
Up out through the top
Blurring the surface of this massive landfill
History drips away like decay

There's not one wholly unique thing
It's not that it's awful, just unfulfilling
And cracked at the base
I'm drowned in perception and overanalyzing everything
Corroding

A History of Violets (rough version)

Mechanical Joints is a noisy electronic poppy distorted digital industrial band audio thing, made up of Shawn Wilson (Chicago, IL) and Sam Sage (Houston, TX). We make music by recording and sending sounds to each other over the internet spiderwebs. We use real spiders.

Our second album, Synthetic Texture, is now available on our bandcamp page.

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