Uncanny Valley
Chemtrails * Track #8 On The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable
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Mia Lust, writing in Joyzine: “This is the phenomenon in robotics that nearly-human-but-not-human-enough robots provoke a strange kind of revulsion. One theory for why people are disgusted by these kinds of robots is the dissonance caused by the conflicting perceptual cues, and I saw a psychology pa...
Uncanny Valley Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My amygdalae say fight or flight again
I've felt worse, I just don't know when
Even if they're polite then they don't get pally
'Cause I live in the uncanny valley
Oh yeah, it's my fault 'cause I'm a whore
Destine to be red in tooth and claw
You don't look twice, and you don't dilly-dally
When ya live in the uncanny valley
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel the sting of an eye
You look but you don't know why
I feel the sting of an eye
You look but you don't know why
[Chorus]
I gave up control
Still stuck in a hole, that's my home
Where I belong, in the uncanny valley
[Verse 2]
With the dregs of compassion lobotomised
For existence unjustified
So I fell a few rungs on the social ladder
Things are bad but they could be badder
So you fetishise what you dare not be
What a surprise that the world can't see
I live with my sisters down a dark trash alley
Somewhere deep in the uncanny valley
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel the sting of an eye
You look but you don't know why
I feel the sting of an eye
You look but you don't know why
I feel the sting of an eye
You look but you don't know why
I never asked for your eye
You shrug, I go home and cry
[Chorus]
I gave up control
Still stuck in a hole, that's my home
Where I belong, in the uncanny valley
(I feel the sting of an eye)
(I feel the sting of an eye)
(I feel the sting of an eye)
(I feel the sting of an eye)
Pecking like a carrion crow
Pulling at my inside's shadow
Twisted but I won't let that show
Feel the pressure build then let it blow