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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Automated, Mechanical, Modern, Robotic.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Mr. Roboto

If I was in Las Vegas today I would place a wager that multiple people will select the 1983 song Mr. Roboto by Styk this week. The prompt made me think long and hard about the other words in this week’s prompt, but this song just kept resonating with me.

Mr. Roboto” was written by Styx singer/keyboard player Dennis DeYoung, who sang lead on the track. Some of the lyrics are in Japanese. The first few lines translate to “thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, until we meet again. Thank you very much Mr. Roboto, I want to know your secret.”

DeYoung had been to Japan with the band and was intrigued by their culture. He merged concepts of censorship, robotics and Japan into “Mr. Roboto,” the story of a human/robot hybrid who is called upon to save the world. Mr. Roboto appears on the band’s 11th studio album which was a concept album titled “Kilroy Was Here“, Some have described it as a rock opera.

Lyrics

Video Mr. Roboto

Next week the prompt is Death, Destruction, Pestilence, Famine