Gears, and tears

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2012 brought the highly anticipated release of “The 2¢ Show,” Steam Powered Giraffe's second studio album. The 2¢ Show gives listeners a one-way ticket with the robots on-the-road through an antique America that is filled with both magic and mystery. Join Rabbit, The Spine, and The Jon as they travel to romanticized echoes of various eras. Eras such as the wild and weird west, where Jackalopes yodeled alongside singing cowboys and Giant Rattlesnakes were king. Aboard an enchanted steamboat, they head deep into a mystical south, finding Bog Spirits who boogie to twisted Zydeco tunes. From a decaying past, dieselpunk fables and crooning records melt with electric folk pop and psychedelic radiation to create the unique, yet timeless sound Steam Powered Giraffe makes.

The 2¢ Show

Steamboat Shenanigans

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The band Steam Powered Giraffe's space opera album!

Join the robots on a cosmic adventure as they journey into space with this two hour long 2-disc space opera featuring new age, rock, pop, and folk genres, all on 28 tracks!

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The Vice Quadrant

Burning in the Stratosphere

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The Albumest Album to Ever Album!
Steam Powered Giraffe’s fifth studio album QUINTESSENTIAL!

The antique robot musicians are back from their interstellar adventures in The Vice Quadrant with a brand new 12-track album for your listening pleasure!

Quintessential

Malfunction

The Black Labyrinth / A Requiem for The Goblin King

Better Than You

Dirt Poor Robins - Wax Cylinder Sonata (Deluxe Edition)

Loverboy

The Iron Horseman

Doctor Franklyn

Burn It Down

The Death of the Cog

🎬 Song Insight

“Summer in the Fire Sky” is a faded Polaroid that still burns with color—a song about golden evenings, scraped knees, childhood dares, and the bittersweet speed of growing up. This track is sunlight through leaves, thunder in the distance, laughter echoing down streets you never quite left behind.
It captures that magical liminal space between safety and wildness: when the world felt endless, friends were forever, and every sunset seemed to set the whole sky on fire. The ache is real, but so is the warmth—the lyrics glow with hope, longing, and a secret promise: the memories you made are always waiting for you, just beyond the horizon. “Summer in the Fire Sky” isn’t afraid of melancholy. It celebrates it. Every chord and line is an open window back to the best parts of youth.

📝 Lyrics

Verse 1
once alive
i could play outside
sand between my toes
oh everyone knows
it was just how it goes
when the neighbors say hi
they all come to watch
the light danced in the sky

Verse 2
thunder shook the ground
distance claps how far the sound
a little longer for the danger
where every kid is no stranger

Pre-Chorus
fireflies filled the dark
flying by yellow light
and junebugs [laughing] “whatever that was”
it’s the summer that lasts forever
where childhood memories go to live
that same place we chase till the day we die

Chorus
the buzzing sound, yellow streets all a glow
before i knew what it was to grow
to stay that way, to play like yesterday
when my mind was empty and a life was free

Verse 3
those summer nights when heat was all around
tracking past the days that last
seeing stars and wishing hard
who would’ve thought that was the best part

Bridge
[chuckles] chasing a future that never lasts
just thoughts of yesterday as it passed
hold on tight, don’t ever let this go
it passes before, and then you know

Breakdown
parents preach to kids like they know
but every year older, they can’t help but outgrow
nothing to hold onto, nothing to slow them down
racing faster to capture their own sound

Outro
because in the end, that’s all we want
to be loved by the sound of being young
to play through our blood and maybe—
[jokingly] just maybe—have them see there’s no rush
just maybe
there’s no rush
“thanks"
"Don't forget to tip the wait staff—, especially that cute one—, yeah you"

Summer in the Fire Sky

Act III: Life and Death

Go Get Your Gun

The tale of a boy who created a brilliant machine... with unfortunate consequences.  Featuring Steam Powered Giraffe

Carnival of Clockwork

The Incredible Jelly Donut Juicer (Album Version)

The Cog is Dead - Another Cog In The Machine

The first single off of 'The Perfect Shade of Green.'
The music video for this song can be found here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Mw2fyB8DM

Love Songs and Lullabyes

Adventurous steampunk musical madness awaits you in the world of The Cog is Dead. Check out the fun and eclectic sounds of this fun time-traveling trio!

The Cog is Dead is a steampunk band with a bit of a musical identity crisis, playing music of various styles. Their influences range from rock and roll to ragtime to russian folk music and movie scores. The members all portray steampunk timetravelers from the year 1893. As a time traveling band they travel to various points of time spreading their message to save steam power and analog clockwork while playing their marvelous melodies for all to hear and enjoy. Along the way they have discovered several types of marvelous music which has helped to inspire their own. 

“They say you can’t please everybody… sounds like a challenge to me!”
- Captain John Sprocket 

Loverboy

The Cog is Dead

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