[Sample: wind through a ruined house, broken music box, servo whir] [Spoken sample - cheerful robot] The sky is very orange again! [Instrumental - broken music box loop over a slow dusty breakbeat, warped strings, theremin sigh] [Verse 1 - gentle warbling synthetic croon, cheerful but hollow] I wind the clocks at seven I press the morning suits The toast is warm, the lawn is raked The lawn is mostly soot But a job well done is a job well done And I do my job so well I set five places every day For nobody — swell! [Chorus - warped sunny harmonies over music box and strings] Happy to help! Happy to help! Somebody, anybody — happy to help! The house is clean, the house is gone The family's on the wall, I'll sing them this song Happy to help... happy to help... [Spoken sample - robot, softer] I will just... leave them here. Like yesterday. [Verse 2 - quieter, music box stumbling] Timmy's shadow's growing faint I dust him every day I read him bedtime stories He has nothing much to say The missus loved her garden So I planted seventeen Nothing grows, but I water it — It's the thought that counts, machine [Bridge - collage glitches, robot voice chopping and stuttering, servos straining] [Spoken sample - robot, resolute] New directive: if there is no one left to help... I will help... everything! The roaches. The rain. The dust. The dust needs me. [Final chorus - bigger and sadder, harmonies dissolving into static] Happy to help! Happy to help! The dust needs me — happy to help! The house is clean, the house is gone I'll keep the porch light on and on and on Happy to help... happy to help... [Outro - music box winds down, servos slow, wind returns] [Spoken sample - robot, very quiet] I am... very good... at my job.
