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Friendly Machine

Release date: 4th February 2022

From Glitch Princess
Track 11
3:47
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'Friendly Machine' by yeule is a Pop track on the album 'Glitch Princess', released in 2022. The lyrics are restless and self-dismantling, mixing bodily disgust and harm with a desperate search for reassurance. There is a note of digital compulsion, a fixation on symptoms and online searching, and a loss of identity framed as something that never quite settles. A yearning for solitude and an escape from other voices sits alongside a sense of being struck, as if the body and the mind are repeatedly overwhelmed, closing on the image of being “around my” something unresolved.

"Friendly Machine" is a single by yeule, from the album Glitch Princess, released 4th February 2022. The track is 3:47 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about yeule.

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yeule

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Lyrics

Friendly Machine

Flush my vomit down the drain
Think of my body getting hit by a train
Always want but never need
Don't have an identity I can feed

I like to think I'm doing just fine
I like to search my symptoms online
I liked it when the voices were gone
I liked to be with you all alone

Around my neck, a friendly machine
Pretends to wipe my memory clean
Pretends to make it all go away
Pretends to make me feel quite okay

Hungry for amphetamine
60 amitriptyline
Violently crying to the song that you sent me
Laxative, can't forgive a reason to live
Find myself, lose myself
Be myself, fuck myself

Can you heal me mentally?
Can you sing a melody?
Can you be a friend to me?
People leave so suddenly
Suffering, peace offering
Virtual life is altering
On a noose, cut me loose
Never-ending self abuse

I like to think I'm doing just fine
I like to search my symptoms online
I liked it when the voices were gone
I liked to be with you all alone

Around my neck, a friendly machine
Pretends to wipe my memory clean
Pretends to make it all go away
Pretends to make me feel quite okay

Flush my vomit down the drain
Think of my body getting hit by a train
Always want but never need
Don't have an identity I can feed

I like to think I'm doing just fine
I like to search my symptoms online
I liked it when the voices were gone
I liked to be with you all alone

Around my neck, a friendly machine
Pretends to wipe my memory clean
Pretends to make it all go away
Pretends to make me feel quite okay

I like to think I'm doing just fine
I like to search my symptoms online
I liked it when the voices were gone
I liked to be with you all alone

Around my neck, a friendly machine
Pretends to wipe my memory clean
Pretends to make it all go away
Pretends to make me feel quite okay

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Track details

From Glitch Princess

3:472022Single
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Glitch Princess
Glitch Princess
yeule
4th February 2022
Track number
11
Release year
2022
  1. 1My Name is Nat Ćmiel
    2:51
  2. 2Electric
    3:16
  3. 3Flowers are Dead
    4:16
  4. 4Eyes
    4:09
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