axxon N.

Machines! Machines! MACHINES! (or the Rapid Replacement of Our Dying Breed)

 

Tracklist

 

1) The Industrial Revolution

2) Teeth

3) Flames and Pilots

4) Elephant

5) Modern Steel

6) Barons

7) The Warhero

8) Telepathetic

9) Dizygotic

10) Flying Machine

11) Advent: Apocalypse

12) Futuretruth

13) Our Dying Breed

14) ...and then there were none.

 

 

 

 

Written, performed, produced, and recorded by: Andrew Abraido & Daniel Taveras

 

 

 

 

All lyrics written by Andrew Abraido EXCEPT 4; written by Daniel Taveras

 

 

 

 

Written and recorded October 2008 - December 2009

 

 

 

 

axxon N.'s third and final effort features an array of vernacular ranging from optimistic and poignant to violent and downright mechanical. Since MACHINES! is not an aural film, there was no narrative story to tell through the lyrics this time around. Instead, Andrew and Daniel focused on the theme of technological evolution and its current role in making us the stupidest and most dependent strain of human beings yet.

 

It took the duo the entire recording process of the record (over a year) to come up with a title for the album, and it certainly didn't disappoint. Daniel and Andrew have cited the 'Dying Breed' reference in the title and the twelfth song on the record as reflecting 'people like them', meaning people who are not afraid to think for themselves, people who take risks, people who don't do drugs (legal or otherwise) and don't abuse alcohol, and ultimately people who aren't particularly concerned with what others think about them.

 

With the advent of the digital era which we are all primary contributors to now, the human interaction has changed, diminished even. While penning the lyrics for MACHINES!, Andrew tried to connect and empathize with individuals living in the period of one of our nation's most epic moments, the Industrial Revolution. While this era gave humans many things to make their lives easier, it also took away the livelihoods of many individuals. Skilled tradesmen, once considered indispensible to our growing world, were replaced overnight by machines...a facet that tugged on the strings of Andrew's heart the more he thought about it.

 

On a more optimistic note, he thought of the awe and the sheer sense of wonder that individuals must have been overfilled with when they stood atop the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time and saw their city from a perspective they never thought possible; the astonishment at seeing a huge mass of steel and steam blistering by them at an inconceivable (at the time) 15 miles per hour; and the jaw-dropping, heart-in-throat feeling of amazement at the sight of a man soaring through the sky with the birds in a flying machine. It's easy to take these things for granted in our modern society where you can reach someone across the globe with the mere push of a button. We don't marvel at technological progress anymore, we expect it. It was the intention of this album to recapture some of that marvel from days of yore and illustrate just how precious progress can be.

 

It is worth noting that the lyrics for "Elephant" were written by Daniel, who flexed his poetic and songwriting muscles for that track.

The Industrial Revolution

Look at these

NEW MACHINES

Sold the ground

For a piece of

Orange steel

Contraband

Who's the kind

Of this MACHINE LAND

 

This is dull

I'm asleep

Wake me when we're flying

Cotton gin

Modern steel

Well at least we're trying

Fear of these

Factories

And the old time now gone

Adios

Age of man

That we pulled the plug on

 

Out of sight

New machines

Burn the ground

For a piece of

Blackened steel

Monotone

Where's the king

In this MACHINE HOME

 

This is dull

I'm asleep

Wake me when we're flying

Cotton gin

Modern steel

Well at least we're trying

Fear of these

Factories

And the old time now gone

Adieu

Age of man

That we pulled the plug on

 

Brand new tools

Fossil fuels

Burn the sky

Now our land is

Growing tall

Shaking hands

With the god

Of this machine land

 

This is dull

I'm asleep

Wake me when we're flying

Cotton gin

Modern steel

Well at least we're trying

Fear of these

Factories

And the old time now gone

Au revoir

Age of man

That we pulled the plug on

 

Metal jewels

Fossil fuels

Toward the sky

Now our land is

Growing wide

Spitting gold

Like the god

Of this MACHINE WORLD

 

This is dull

I'm asleep

Wake me when we're flying

Cotton gin

Modern steel

Well at least we're trying

Fear of these

Factories

And the old time now gone

So good-bye

Age of man

That we pulled the plug on.

 

 

Teeth

Look at me

Stab me in the eyes

Separate

Pigments' choking ties

Fornicate

Simple solemn swear

Hesitate

We were never there

 

Cutting teeth

Quiet is the sound

With a splash

Let us leave the ground

Now entwined

Oceanic snare

Waterproof

We were never there.

 

 

Flames and Pilots

My ghost she doesn't

She doesn't speak much anymore

I slit her throat and

I chewed out her talking chords

And now they're searching

For an answer and a cure

They cannot fix me

I do believe I thirst for more

 

My violent life I can't lose hold

Self-defense against the old

Flames and pilots of my past

Who didn't care to make it last

 

My ghost she doesn't

She doesn't sleep much anymore

I cut her thighs and

Let her bleed out like a whore

And now she's searching

For a reason and a door

She cannot leave me

All this blood it makes me sure

 

My violent life I can't lose hold

Self-defense against the old

Flames and pilots of my past

Who didn't care to make it last

 

My ghost she doesn't

She doesn't live much anymore

Her flesh is rotting

Soil seeping through her pores

And now I'm searching

For a pistol and a hole

So I can end this

And release my feral soul

 

My violent life I now let go

Too late to copa and take control

No more will pilots haunt my bed

Because my dear, now we're all dead.

 

 

Elephant

I remember when

I saw god change color

A wasted moment when

The leaves were still green

Before they crumbled brown

And tumbled and left to wade

In a worried puddle

In a worried lake

 

Don't tell me

You don't remember

It was under the porch beside the plants

I wonder how

You never found it

How it never found you

 

I forget when

It wasn't broken

Before the paint chips slept with the dust

In a wordless shield

A shell of naked

And trying ambition

Drawn on a stone too tall.

 

 

Modern Steel

These gears are churning so we won't have to be

Tired and bored as we ride here endlessly

 

Aboard on this cold MODERN MACHINE

I'll see you look at me

I'll move my lips as I work toward the unknown

Maybe I won't be alone

 

We'll talk of the time and the rails on which we sit

And marvel how man could have thought up such a trip

 

Your eyes will glow heating steel to its core

Showing the cold to the door

Honest and open we'll reshape our bones

We'll never be alone.

 

 

Barons

All we ever say or do

Links us through time though we're far away

One of us an oil tycoon

The other just a thief who knows how to play

All of the ELECTRIC MACHINES

Not even conceived up until the day

We first found some black in the sea

And bled it from the world just so we could say...

 

I'm taking everything

Except this paranoia

Dark gold is in my veins

You know I'll re-record you

Bald thoughts of suicide

Cut me to spill the oil

A heed though we're unconscious

You better grow a conscience now

 

You might look upon us with scorn

But monarchs of the world know we're here to stay

One of us pure fiction in form

The other just a scab who won't go away

You should learn to horde and to sing

And dig up all the earth under skies of grey

No doubt peace of mind it would bring

To rattle off inside we all look the same.

 

 

The Warhero

This half-light illuminating

The paths that I see before my eyes

Makes me ponder and recall

The peace I've made with the unusual

I've left it heavy and I'll atone

But first I must choose a road alone

Marching slowly soon I'll know

If this choking fog will lead me home

I don't know but I'm not afraid

To sleep without you in this bed that I have made

 

How can it be

This fog is still enveloping me

Already made a choice

Although I have

Not locked lips with the end of the trail

I can still hear a voice

Summoning me

Albeit quiet tirelessly

I know I made the right

Call and now my

Math it puts me about halfway there

But still no sign of life

Except a tree

That seems to dance so effortlessly

And even through the smog

I can still see

This shard of beauty alerting me

To the absence of god

 

Weak in the knees

This journey's beat the shit out of me

I wish that I could lie

Down for a bit

And sleep away the demons that sit

Behind my tired eyes

Fighting the urge

I shuffle conscious trying to purge

All I know that's led

Me up to this

Defining moments' carve of the wrist

And how it makes my head

Harder to breathe

This fog it goes down menacingly

The tonic of a bog

To make me see

Good / Evil simultaneously

In the one they call god

 

Into this void

I weigh upon a scale

My urge to grow

And likelihood I'll fail

Another rhyme

Clawing through my veins

Invents the words

And asks me in refrain

Should I persist

And squint to see the trees

Or lace some string

And be one with the breeze

 

Surrounded by all I fear

I choose to persevere

Tomorrow now coming clear

This fog will disappear.

 

 

 

Telepathetic

I've been patiently

Waiting for gravity

To exist no more

So I can leave the floor

Then mine met your soul

Eyes, lips, vertigo

 

You and me

One called we

We will crawl

Through it all

And float through space

Melt our face

But don't fear

We'll be here

 

Send the pack away

New lives here to stay

Brain waves synching in

Let us share one skin

Then we think as one

Telltale sign of love

 

You and me

One called we

We will crawl

Through it all

And float through space

Melt our face

But don't fear

We'll be here.

 

 

Dizygotic

When we were young

You were a beast

I was alone

We'd pity me

 

Then seasons changed

 

I morphed into

A MIDNIGHT MACHINE

You were alone

Waiting patiently

 

To get back your turn

But I fell in love

 

Now we must break this curse

Bizarro

We must find a way

Bizarro

Bizarro

Bizarro

 

We are twins at the seams of the brain

And if you cut the corpus we just might live as two

Though sharpened steel is more ideal

This sound is worth a try.

 

 

Flying Machine

Barber

Can you tell me which way

It is to the fairgrounds

So I

Can ride in the FLYING MACHINE

Sir, I thank you with silver

Please pardon my haste while

I ride

On high to the world's largest show

 

Take me up

I'll see the world below

I'll let all my fears fall down

And out

Of this newfound flying machine

Now, I'll traverse the skies and

I'll go back in time to

Tell you

I'd miss you if you went away

 

Dropping down

My stomach it hits the ground

I'll never get closer

Than far

To this broken flying machine

And, my hope for change shrivled

I do not remember

A sound

Like this in 1889.

 

 

Advent: Apocalypse

Here comes the swarm

How do we survive

In apocalyptic times

When all on our side

Are just like the dead

Pale-faced and staring into space

Of light and alphanumeric haze

How ego-centered we've come to be

We're the only ones armed with DEATH MACHINES

While the masses prefer to wait and see

Well I've got some news so text this away:

They've got teeth

And they're hungry

 

Now they're coming

The doors are splintering to the floors

Start pumping

And fill all of the walls with gaping holes

Reloading

If this is the end

Then let's show them what it means to be a human

We'll break all of their bones

And wipe the virus from their glands

With our bare -----.

 

 

Futuretruth

We are

Liars in the present day

Silence

Follow all we say

It's the truth someday

Don't turn away

Listen to the future

 

The lives we save all die someday

The lies we say will be truth someday

When all we crave has gone away

The lies we say will be truth that day

And here they are

 

In a futuretruth

We wrote our sound on the radio

And you all know our name

In a futuretruth

I fell in love with a goddess

Who already met GOLIATH

In a futuretruth

Our breed is dead and buried

And what a waste to haunt a generation out of time

 

The lives we save all die someday

The lies we say will be truth someday

When all we crave has gone away

The lies we say will be truth that day

Just not right now.

 

 

Our Dying Breed

Now

My Cry

Is for

A darker time

When flesh

And brawn

Were oh so real

Then steel

Replaced

The ATP

Not fair

For man

Was born before machine

 

WE THE MACHINES

HERE DECREE

WE ARE TAKING OVER

 

We don't agree

As fast as we

Built you we will tear you apart

 

BUT YOU NEED US

MORE THAN YOU

WILL EVER NEED EACH OTHER

 

Our Dying Breed

Won't concede

And will choose to remove you from our fragile lives

 

Now

We'll march

Unto

Your hallowed ground

With boots

And sleeves

Wired down

If war

Is truly

What you see

Then we

Can't wait

To make your circuits bleed

 

WE THE MACHINES

HERE DECREE

WE ARE TAKING OVER

 

We don't agree

As fast as we

Built you we will tear you apart

 

BUT YOU NEED US

MORE THAN YOU

WILL EVER NEED EACH OTHER

 

Our Dying Breed

Won't concede

And will choose to remove you from our fragile lives.

 

 

...and then there were none.

So here we

Are again

Tapping kegs

Making plans

For this our

Final day

On this world

We once made

How much time

Did we leave

Forget that and

Drink with me

 

To all our memories

Too afraid to paraphrase

So here's this:

I loved you

 

One more chance

Make this real

She touches me

Then she disappears

 

It was 'J'ust a dream

It all was 'J'ust a dream

You and me

As a team

Such potential

Useless dream

But now I've

Bigger fears

Newer gods

Of engines and gears

 

Churning out

SLAVE MACHINES

Of the flesh

Roles received

And reversed

Different fate

We will plead

But too late

Because we

Devestate

Now we must

Learn to 'sing'

Silently

Because now THEY speak:

 

NOW WE PRESIDE

OVER YOUR LIVES

YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE

NOW WE MUST END

ALL OF YOUR SELF

SERVING VICES

THAT YOU FLAUNT

WE WILL HARVEST YOUR SOULS

TO MAKE THIS WORLD SWELL

WITH ALL OF THE BEAUTY THAT YOU

COULD NEVER SEEM TO LEND

WE WILL PUSH

OUR BUTTONS NOW

AND YOU ALL

WILL BE ERASED

 

 

Epilogue, because now our breed is through

Oh, remember the things we used to do.