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Thread #171822   Message #4212930
Posted By: Charley Noble
05-Dec-24 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Survivor Leave - songs by Ken Stephens
Subject: ADD: Machine Madness (Ken Stephens)
There were two other songs that Ken left us that were not listed in and's post above: Ike Hvaal and Shellback which I could transcribe and post.

Here's my transcript of "Machine Madness":

By Ken Stephens, June, 1991
Portland, ME

MACHINE MADNESS
(Ken Stephens)

The machine went "click" and I felt sick
As the tape had just erased on replay—
I've left a message myself on someone else's tape
But I don't know if they phoned me back today.

So I got out the phone and tried to reach my friend
But as usual no one was in at home;
So I left them word on their answering machine
And invited them to ring me on my phone.

I'd set my machine to answer all their calls
And gone about the schedule of my day,
But my tape is short and half the calls I'd bought(?)
Were lost when I erased that tape today.

I forget when I had a personal phone call,
And from my machine to your machine I say,
"Don't call me back as the machine is now trashed out back
And I'll write or call and see you any day.

But I expect, that machine went "click" and they're all feeling sick
As the tape had just erased on the replay;
I'd left a message myself on someone else's tape
But I don't know if they phoned me back today.