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Breakable

by onlyone

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1.
Warning Sign 04:01
Alert bell, do I hear your call? Ringing bell, singing down the hall Listen closely, listen close, Maybe it just stopped? Do I hear your call? Warning Sign Warning Sign Something's wrong Warning Sign It's falling down Tattle tale, shake that tattle tale Move it slowly, move it slow Then change how it change And make that sale Warning Sign Ringing bell, singing down the hall Listen closely, listen close Maybe you just stopped Do I hear your call? Do I hear your call? Warning Sign
2.
When I was built Of circuits and of wires I had no desire Or higher goal Than functional to need no maintenance A strong countenance To last a lifetime And when we interact my senses overwrite the scene Peculiar the reaction when I try to quell the dream The robot working next to me is all that I can see And it’s your satisfactory reaction that I seek Electric Chemistry Electric Chemistry Electric She’s a robot girl With robot curves and lines This indefinable way that she moves Across the room Or simply rotational And by her face we all Get saved and saved and saved and saved And when we interact my senses overwrite the scene Peculiar the reaction when I try to quell the dream The robot working next to me is all that I can see And it’s your satisfactory reaction that I seek Electric Chemistry Electric Chemistry
3.
Sugars and spices And mixes and rices And sauces and powders and paste No one devours a chemical chowder And brags about color and taste Natural is better than synthetic cheddar And water is better than coke Mix it up, mix it up, Just stay with me, please I like The Sweet Life This Sweet Life with you I like The Sweet Life This Sweet Life with you No one’s rich over here, no one’s Born with the tres cliché platinum spoon But come on up to the house some time We’ll fill you up on magical food Maximum happiness, minimum headacheness Maxing out everything good Just mix it up, just mix it up, Just stay with me, please I like The Sweet Life This Sweet Life with you I like The Sweet Life This Sweet Life with you With you
4.
Fixable 03:17
You come on so strong like a runaway train Gotta barrel through, gotta barrel through everything Your mechanism’s off, or your subtlety chip You’re just a little bit off It’s just a couple bits We’re lines of code And hardware chips We willed our souls You let yours slip away We’re destructible And we We are breakable But you Are you Fixable? Sent an auto-message to the help-desk team Gotta get you fixed, gotta get you fixed before long Comparing all the data to the database logs, Maybe there’s a pattern that they haven’t seen yet We’re lines of code And hardware chips We willed our souls You let yours slip away We’re destructible And we We are breakable But you Are you Fixable?
5.
(intermission transmission)
6.
Vacuum 03:29
And deep as any, the mystery Why you have concluded I am in a vacuum I am acting at random You are in a bubble, Gloves stuck through an airtight Hole that you can reach through At me within a vacuum I am in a vacuum A Vacuum And from this faulty premise, You build up faults, relentless, Back them up with fiction Suit the truth to match the Narrative of a martyr Whose cross is just an object That won’t do what was asked it Just like a faulty vacuum I’m a faulty vacuum A Vacuum I’m that faulty vacuum A Vacuum
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And I will never know the way I’ll never know the answer It’s faster Everything in its right place And although you can have your code And you can have your low-fi program Everything just isn’t the same All in the rhythm and as they all ripple out But we’re all cripples from this war We’ve suffered through its losses Its monsters Only we can tell the tale It’s all in the rhythm, just offset the rhythm And act as a prism to alternate ripples of
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Open my like a clementine Sweet inside, that’s by design Sweet inside, sweet inside Let me drink it in Come inside, My Valentine Let me drink it in Come inside, My Valentine Let me drink it in It’s sweet inside, My Valentine It’s sweet inside, My Valentine Let me drink it in

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Full album download includes bonus track "The Zack Posen Throwdown"

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released June 7, 2014

All songs written (except where indicated), recorded, and transmitted by Joe Kowalski (onlyone), in The Spaceship Control Center, between January, 2013, and May, 2014. These are the records of those transmissions. Our cryptographers have done their best to translate and transcribe the lyrical content as accurately and clearly as possible in order to grant you, the listener, the most enjoyable and emotionally resonant listening experience yet devised by extraterrestriamechanoids for humans and extra-terrestrials alike.

©2014 Joe Kowalski Music/ Is It Noise Or Is It Music, ASCAP

cover art by Andrew James Stone (dkonstruxion)

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onlyone Boston, Massachusetts

onlyone -- Joe Kowalski -- is hard to classify as a solo artist. As a sort of throwback to 70s era Brian Eno, onlyone traverses electronic/ proggy pop and ambient music and anything in between, playing all instruments and producing it all.

in 2018, onlyone releases his first French record, the reggae- and afropop-influenced Le Jeu Etendu Francais, with more music soon to come right behind.
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