Name: My Machine Heart
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: ‘My Machine Heart’ is about social isolation and detachment: living on auto-pilot, failed attempts to break out of patterns of depression and passivity, and an eventual retreat to numbing strategies (food, pills).

My Machine Heart

from Slipping Away by Hillsburn

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‘My Machine Heart’ is about social isolation and detachment: living on auto-pilot, failed attempts to break out of patterns of depression and passivity, and an eventual retreat to numbing strategies (food, pills).

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Microwave dinner and trazodone,
Cool my chin on the window in evening
Watching the dots live and die below.
Where do they go?
I don't know what they're feeling.

Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark.

I made a garden up on the roof,
Trying to prove to myself I was hopeful.
Caught you there, mouth full, and knew.
I knew, I knew I'd make you sad.

Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark,
And my machine heart just goes
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

Smoke you to sleep, flush and full of cake.
Threw a wake for your year I infected.
Dawn, your friends take you, I watch the birds
Ruin their heads on a heaven reflected.

Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark,
And my machine heart just goes
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

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from Slipping Away, released May 28, 2021

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Hillsburn Halifax, Nova Scotia

We're an indie pop band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our new record, Slipping Away, is out now!

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