Damon and I are having an awake before 6am and starting work sort of day. Don't join us, unless you have, and then it's too late, and you may as well. There are basically two sorts of songs about robots. One is the SAD ROBOT! and the other is the SEXY ROBOT! (There's also the SEXY! SAD! ROBOT! which is an advanced class.) This is the former. You will believe a robot can be vaguely maudlin.
I had to board a rush hour train yesterday morning and as luck would have it this superb track kicked in from my random playlist about halfway between Wimbledon and Clapham Junction. It was, literally the soundtrack to a live and tragic improvisation. As my fellow travellers stood, necks bowed, slack-jawed, staring at their tiny world 'They're everyday robots on their phones......
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