Robot hands removed 👀 great track 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Exceptionally good. Love this to bits 🤍🤍🤍

Hey excellent depiction of the sorry state of life in the modern world. Great grooves and guitar sections, marvellous!

San Kajati plays bass and arrangements 

lyrics
the gas and electric have gone through the roof
if this is living then show me the proof

all the money I’ve got that I have to my name
won’t pay the rent
won’t ease the strain

get your robot hands off me

i worked to the bone but the factory’s gone
now i'm told to have a go

stores are boarded up and the mall’s gone quiet
we’ve taken to the streets but there is no riot

get your robot hands off me

not an emergency
though there is a sense of urgency   
my head hurts I might need surgery

no food in the fridge
and my old man tried to murder me
and a letter from the agency 
says I earnt too much lately
though they can’t say when exactly
they treat me  like I’m a toxic allergy


2 and 2 is three
robot choose to believe


robot gets to choose 
where I get the kids shoes
that I can’t buy booze
that I’ve got too much to lose
i tighten the belt it tightens the screws	
like an offer I can’t refuse
join the queue 
at least there’s a queue 
and that’s good news

i do get to choose
do i spend my last 20 on credit
i need a phone but instead it’s
better to spend it on food
but robot gets to choose

Robot Hands

The Failed States is a creative project based in an aged care facility in the leafy suburb of Wantirna, Melbourne Australia. 

Initially a recreational outlet, allowing residents to express themselves through music, poetry and sitting still, The Failed States has since taken on a life of it own. 

Anguished songs about other residents' grandchildren being too loud at the table tennis table, or laments of lukewarm, semi-set pudding were gradually replaced by powerful pieces about climate change, urban decay, relationship breakdown and stolen dentures.

There are no permanent members of The Failed States, we live on, as age, petty rivalries, and forgetfulness takes us all.

The Failed States tries to perform in the common room on the second Tuesday of every month, after lunch.

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