Clockwork Family

I ate the paste 'cause I was hungry
I cried and ran out of the room
My mum and dad, they surely love me
But we don’t always a lot of food
And all the other kids are assholes
Making fun of my hand-me-down jeans
Life would be a lot less hassle
If I could just replace these pointless people with machines
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
Everything happens right on time
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
Counted on to finally work out fine
So much more reliably than mine
My uncle Tim is now in prison
After seven years of being unemployed
That would never happen to a robot
They can only break or be repaired or be destroyed
And they don’t pass out on the sofa
Buried in a pile of empty beers
The absolute perfect of avuncular affection
In a shiny little box of spinning gears
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
Everything happens right on time
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
Counted on to finally work out fine
So much more reliably than mine
There’s dirt in every corner
There’s a sofa in the yard
And everything is out of order
Life is unpredictable and hard
But there is peace out on the highway
In the soft hissing rush of the machines
Quietly gliding, never quite colliding
Only fractions of a second in between
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
Everything happens right on time
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
Counted on to finally work out fine
So much more reliably than mine