Machines (LIVE)

from CMNDR XNDR (LIVE) by Commander Xander

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This is a song I wrote in 2009 about artificial intelligence
taking over the music industry. Here we are.

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I wanna write a song that gets everybody moving!
And everyone would know every last word to the very first verse!
See, all the "cool-cats" try to get with the gig I'm grooving...
...but you best not be going my way, because you may get hurt!

See, I know you know there's a secret recipe to every "Number one"!
And I hate to say - but I'll say it anyway...
it seems these machines have won.

My God, it got hard trying to play the part of a "rockstar"
and a brother and a fighter and a brother and a writer in a glass jar.
And I was never ever clever enough to find a rhyme to THIS line...
No, I was never, ever clever enough to find a rhyme to THAT line...

See, I know you know there's a secret recipe
to every "Number one"!
And I hate to say - but I'll say it anyway...
it seems these machines have won.

THESE MACHINES HAVE WON!

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from CMNDR XNDR (LIVE), released April 14, 2024
Written/Performed/Composed/Recorded/Produced by
Commander Xander
of "Commander Xander and the Talent Show"

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BC Singer/Songwriter Alexander William Webster AKA COMMANDER XANDER

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