Pick It Up, Drop It

You drop it just to pick it up
You pick it up just to drop it
Drop it
Drop it

It's the arcade coin operated organism
It's controlled by a stick
It’s got a mouth with no lips
Where the prize is dispensed
The middle class got a prince, but
He's doubled over with laughter
Once It's granted his wish

The claw machine dream
Weaves huggable plush stuffies
In supernatural color
On a quarter from your mother

crowded in the cage looking hungry and abused
You grab for them, you get them, you lose them and feel confused

Every so many turns, an increased
Success rate will temporarily level
Your chances of getting paid and
The claw the toy crane
Getting machine game
Will tighten the grip strength
And raise the prize

Wait

It's a hail Mary of outrage,
The basic motor reflex of a
Sucker don't want to admit that
He's been played

It builds a junky to think broken
He's open to start shopping
The claw's is a heart stolen
Focus on not stopping

The customer's dissatisfied
The parking lot is paranoid
Bargain hunters flinching like
Spousal abuse veterans, just
Reacting to the sound of the
Public announcement system

If there are toys in the machine, we've got no animal control

But I'm going to settle this problem right
I'm going up in the Plexiglas cell and I'm staying the night

You never felt so shameless
At home with strip mall royalty
With the boy in the colorful stuffed toy bubble nativity
Mother was so surprised she snapped her thighs shut
Like she was closing her eyes tight and
Bad lighting be sucked she went for the point and shoot,
She shot my cave dive dash into the black hatch
Fainted and flushed

WE are coin coin operated organisms
We destroy joy making these unpleasant decisions
WE are coin coin operated organisms
We destroy joy making these unpleasant decisions

You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up
Yeah you pick it up, pick it up, you pick it up, up

The machine spoke a spell so sweet and revealed much
I sunk my elbow deep in the chute to retrieve plush
Fuck this slow ride round a gold pole
The mall's trashed, the miniature carousel is wack and
I'm an old soul I eat the whole thing
In the frenzy just to retrieve my prize I spilled my cold drink

The massive trapped by the spectacle that ensued is
Was a crowd of faux concern
Dressed in vest blues

Think I'm going to give up after thirty seconds of game play?
Just watch a mother fucker get famous in front of safe way
I'm in a rush but I don't want to break the spell, now
How am I going to fit up in this Plexiglas cell

I see a box full of toys I've got to get inside
I put my arm in the hatch cause I was mesmerized
Now I'm screaming for my second life
Waiting for the gentle knife
Hoping that these people
Cut me out before tonight

You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up
Yeah you pick it up up

We're brain banging the coin slot toy trap machine while
The daughter of the automat's collecting for the silver screen
You need a single rubber robot sealed inside a plastic bubble
Or your little devil's guaranteed to breed all types of trouble

The mind fuck destroyer like a lover estranged
Might let you win a couple rounds just to drive you insane,
Yeah the mind fuck destroyer is no longer a game
It's your employer and
Its claw is just a lawyer it's tamed

WE see coin on top of coin outside the strip mall's stacked
We might be satisfied, one thing's for certain, we're silly strapped
Look in at the toy village lottery ticket holders hanging
They mashing on the claw game
Careless til they drop it, Jeffrey-Jamming on the joysticks
Cheeks suddenly moistening
Playing make believe with a new friend named disappointment

You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up up
Yeah you pick it up up just to drop it, just drop it
You drop it, drop it just to pick it up
Yeah you pick it up, pick it up, you pick it up, up