Brass Goggles - Steam Powered Giraffe

Come with me I’ll show you how to be a metal man

When the gears are turning and the fires are burning

When the world ticks around you,

voices talking all the time

And you live for sleep you’ve never slept

because you cannot sleep

Colonel Walter was shocked

when he learned from the Nile

Copper African elephants turning hostile

So he built these wonderful automaton bloaks

And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes

Now the war is passed and over

We’re left to sit and wonder

What is life and what is real?

And why do living things need feeling?

(One, two, three)

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da

How’d you like to try pumping

lead through your veins

Or have a heart so wet and cold it starts rusting

When the world ticks around you,

voices talking all the time

You live for feelings you’ve never felt

because you cannot feel

And what is this leaking affecting my eye?

Does the oil that is dripping mean this is a cry?

Will I ever be something with feelings to hide?

Or am I just a boiler with nothing inside?

I want all today

Don’t want to hear you say

You can’t do this, you can’t do that

You’re not a living thing with feeling

(One, two, three)

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da

Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!)

Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!)

Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles, goggles, goggles!)

Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass googles!)

I want all today

Don’t want to hear you say

I love you, I love you

I love-love-love you

Colonel Walter was shocked when he learned from the Nile

Copper African elephants turning hostile

So he built these wonderful automaton bloaks

And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes

Wind me up, turn the gears

Wind me up, turn the gears

Wind me up, turn the gears

Wind me up, turn the gears

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da

La-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da