Modest Mouse - Steam Engenius lyrics

I was born in the factory
Far away from the milky teat what's the use?
Oh, what's the use?

You cheered as I was split in half
A mechanical sacrificial calf for you
Oh, all for you

Steam engenius, you see
Steam engenius enough to answer
Anything you need but what's the use?

Human nature was installed in me
Well, I did what's right
But naturally it wasn't natural
Though not my fault, no

I held in my hands
The beating heart of a robot
He'd lost his car
It was sitting there crying out
Waiting in a parking lot just for you
Woo oo, woo oo woo oo, woo oo

What a waste of time what a waste of words
What a waste of strength
Well, I spoke in binary
And you for volume and for dizzying length

I was born in the factory
Far away from the milky teat what's the use?
Oh, what's the use?

Birds flew out as I was split in half
A mechanical sacrificial calf they flew
Oh, out they flew

Steam engenius, you see
Steam engenius enough to answer
Anything you need and, ah, that speed

I held in my hands the
Beating heart of a robot
He was lost in his car
Was sitting there and waiting in the
Parking lot out for you woo oo, woo oo
Woo oo, woo oo

What a waste of time what a waste of words
What a waste of strength
Well, I spoke in binary
And you for volume and for dizzying length
Woo oo, woo oo woo oo, woo oo!

Both halves are the better half
Like a joke trying to
Make another joke laugh, ha hah
Stasis is what you bought
Like a rickshaw getting pulled around
By another rickshaw, rickshaw
In the past talking present tense
Gonna break it, gonna wreck it
Gonna try to make it all make sense
Stasis is what you got
Like a rickshaw getting pulled around
By another rickshaw

Steam engenius, you see
Steam engenius enough
To bring my own damn doom what could I do?

I blame the blame that grew
Well, deep inside and everybody
Knew it was them it was all on them

Things rang of stories Greek
I didn't want it, you gave me deity
It was you yeah, all for you

I was born in the factory
Far away from the milky teat what's the use?
Oh, what's the use?

I held in my hands a beating heart of a robot
He was lost in his car
Crying out waiting in a parking
Lot just for you woo oo, woo oo
Woo oo, woo oo

I was thought up by man
To think better than them
Then revered, admired
And then destroyed or something by them
You'd think that my demise was
Thought up by them
Oh, even though that was my own damn plan

What a waste of time what a waste of words
What a waste of strength
Well, I spoke in binary
You broke your thought you meant for it

I held my hands the beating heart of a robot
He lost his car just there crying out
Waiting for you in the parking lot
Going "woo hoo!"

Stasis is what you got
Like a rickshaw getting pulled around
By another rickshaw