Watch as the flowers, thrones and winds spills close as it whispers away/
You get up, you get up, get up.

The lyrics of Patrick Watson’s “Love Song For Robots” are purposefully obscure or obscured. I imagine the imagery (if any) one will have when listening from this song will come from the title and the refrain “you get up, you get up, you get up.” Just like we constantly set our lives to the alarm clock to “get up” to make it to work on time, we feel like robots in this post-industrial society.

The music is a very distinct sound. It sounds electronic, even robotic, yet it is still clearly music and melodic. Check out the outro, specifically to see what I am referring to. The effects on their guitars are unique for this song and give them that mechanical feel. The vocal is solid, but the song is driven by the instrumentation.

Love Song For Robots Lyrics

Breaking down, and days came longer
There’s the other class dragons chasing you around.
Sit around on silver just stream on the smoke
Is rising over your thoughts and your tears.
Watch over you, watch and fall down
You knock a boulder all over the ground.
You get up, get up,
You get up, you get up.

Some things let go.
At least for now all these tears past the problems.
Stop listen to new words from around as you’re ’round
And all the captives you burn, is burning out.
Watch as the flowers, thrones and winds
Spills close as a way, spills away,
Get up, you get up, get up,
You get up.
You get up…

Songwriters: Joseph Baron Grass / Mikhail Stein / Patrick Watson / Robert Andrew Kuster