'Consumer Machine' is the first single off of Big Brutus' new album, 'America Circa', released October 6th on Paper Garden Records. Sean Bryant (Big Brutus) wrote 'America Circa' while biking up the East Coast in the Spring of 2017 and raising money for the International Rescue Committee. The album strays from the familiar themes found on his previous albums - themes of love, loss, death, and pursuit of fulfillment - and, instead, calls out and dives into the racism, oppression, and political corruption rampant in America today. Big Brutus has written an important, self-aware album about what it means to live and love in this country, and calls the listener to address centuries of abuse.
Stuck inside consumer machine Anywhere you drive you’ll be Numbered and counted in little rows Red light/Green light. You’re standing in the road saying let’s go. Stick me in consumer machine Drain my body Leave me empty on the altar With stigmata hands Another citizen sacrifice in the Warming light of man.
But I pray oh God where are you now? Buying up commercial spots on the other side of town But I pray oh God where are you now? Buying up commercial spots on the other side of town
My sleeves caught in the consumer machine Go blue at the collar Such a fitting irony Stop I seem to have lost my page The manuals to run this thing all go blank So order So order the consumer machine, and for a limited time we’ll throw in dimes for your eyes when you go to sleep. Anywhere you drive you’ll be Standing in a pool of dirty gasoline
But I pray oh God where are you now? Buying up commercial spots on the other side of town But I pray oh God where are you now? Buying up commercial spots on the other side of town
Anywhere you drive you’ll be Anywhere you drive you’ll be
