Pick It Up, Drop It - Restiform Bodies

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