This song expresses the trapped sensation caused by habit. One can feel as if wisdom and authenticity are just out of reach, with the tyranny of routine keeping them there. In the context of the rest of the song and of the dream’s conclusion in “Perverse Fascination,” the man’s dream reflect’s Kyle’...
It's your cake you decide when to have it
In this life it takes all kinds of nasty habits
If I were you, if I were you
And circumstances rearranged I would do
Almost anything to shake free, get loose
But it's automatic
Eyes of glass and a mind tuned to static
Every once in awhile I see a light flicker in the attic
It's my head, It's my head
Breaking itself to make a thought but instead
Just some pornographic images to stave off my death
It's all automatic
It's all automatic
[spoken voice recording]
Then I reach the bottom and I open the door
And standing there is this figure with your face but not your eyes staring at me menacingly
At this point I speak and I say "you have come to kill me"
And then you say "I have come to save you" and then you stab me in the chest
Automatic was written by Kyle Morton.
Automatic was produced by Kyle Morton & Paul Laxer.
Kyle Morton released Automatic on Tue Sep 20 2016.