Clockwork Family

I ate the paste 'cause I was hungry
 I cried and ran out of the room
 My mum and dad, they surely love me
 But we don't always a lot of food
 And all the other kids are assholes
 Making fun of my hand-me-down jeans
 Life would be a lot less hassle
 If I could just replace these pointless people with machines
 The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
 Everything happens right on time
 Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
 Counted on to finally work out fine
 So much more reliably than mine
 My uncle Tim is now in prison
 After seven years of being unemployed
 That would never happen to a robot
 They can only break or be repaired or be destroyed
 And they don't pass out on the sofa
 Buried in a pile of empty beers
 The absolute perfect of avuncular affection
 In a shiny little box of spinning gears
 The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
 Everything happens right on time
 Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
 Counted on to finally work out fine
 So much more reliably than mine
 There's dirt in every corner
 There's a sofa in the yard
 And everything is out of order
 Life is unpredictable and hard
 But there is peace out on the highway
 In the soft hissing rush of the machines
 Quietly gliding, never quite colliding
 Only fractions of a second in between
 The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
 Everything happens right on time
 Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
 Counted on to finally work out fine
 So much more reliably than mine