Name: Electric Boat
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Technology makes our lives easier, but not necessarily better. The internet in particular...a vast network of information that makes knowing things impossible. The harmonies were an auto-tuned demo that wasn't even sung into a vocal mic. I just thought that their computery nature fit well with track's theme.

Electric Boat

from Backwords by Dale Wicks

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Technology makes our lives easier, but not necessarily better. The internet in particular...a vast network of information that makes knowing things impossible. The harmonies were an auto-tuned demo that wasn't even sung into a vocal mic. I just thought that their computery nature fit well with track's theme.

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Electric boat on the cool, wide water
Lightning motor on a liquid lie
Metal airplane, light as a feather
Lazy looping circus in the sky

The irony & madness in the world in which we live
May steal from us more than it gives

Distant folks, closer than a whisper
Distant whispers make a stranger of a friend
Surrounding music, impossible to listen
A thing so precious doesn't cost you a cent

The irony & madness in the world in which we live
May steal from us more than it gives

Every day, constant stimulation
breeds a numbness born of too much to feel
Twisting wisdom into information
Cannot make your reality more real

The irony & madness in the world in which we live
May steal from us more than it gives

Electric boat on the cool, wide water
Lightning motor on a liquid lie

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from Backwords, released April 13, 2020
Dale Wicks: All instruments

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