Steam Powered Giraffe - Clockwork Vaudeville Lyrics

I love the tuba in this. 😂

Good vibes!

Wait is that the Steamboat from Steamboat Shenanigans? And the swamp from Suspender Man?

Is it wrong that I imagine this as a FNAF style situation where the boy is forced to become an automaton for the delight of future patrons?

For a trip down memory lane, put the video at 1.25x speed

FINALLY, A SONG MY BONES CAN JIG TO

🌸🌸🌸

is this Michael Reeds backstory.

My mom gave me a nickel
She said to buy a pickle
I DON'T WANNA BUY A PICKLE!
I. WANT. BUBBLEGUM!
BAZOOKA ZOOKA BUBBLEGUM!

I just stoped doing my Spanish homework at 6:55 P.M. to just sit, relax, and draw to this
Yup
I love this album

in the quest for the something a something, rabbit says she called Peter A. Walter, Pappy. In the banter, someone says Pappy! Does that mean that Walter built the S. S. Biscuiteer?

3:16 wtf is that a chicken noise coming out of a human automoton

Tis rabbit

I think that’s Jon. 😂

I'm sorry but that scream makes me laugh every single time


_AYYYY_

this is a masterpiece

People say that Steam Powered Giraffe helps with their depression, and they also help me with another mental disorder I'd never expect them to help with- my severe ADHD. This song in particular, it keeps me calm and helps me keep my mind straight, and it's simply amazing.

I also have ADHD and i hate dead silence and I have panic attacks easily so SPG helps that too!

Does anyone feel like the verse about meeting the band is kind of sinister?

What Is A Name? Naah

They haven't lost steam. They've changed members. Yeah they don't sound the same. Many bands change over the years, some change their sound. These guys still go back and do their old stuff, even if it sounds different, it's their music. They still do the robotic stuff. People can't compare their stage shows to their music videos. It's a different format. Get over it, enjoy the music. Embrace change. Rumors about why people left the band don't help either. Always take information direct from the source.

I pilot the ship in Skyrim (Dev Azera) with spg playing it's strangely calming and I can't get enough :)

This song really changed how I thought of Brass Goggles.

To: STEAMPOWERED GIRRAFFE
I was always interested in the eccentricity and free expression i found in the steampunk gengre. Your band was the first i discovered. The other day actually "Brass Goggles" . i couldnt stop watching videos after that! Ive struggled alot in life but i feel like i fit in here :) the freedom of gender expressions, all of it is amazing. In a time of great anxiety and depression i found something that was worth holding onto. Your music. Thanks. Honestly. Thankyou.

I think that this and Brass Goggles were the first two songs my dad bought for me

Would anyone be able to give me any recommendations of other good steampunk bands or other good songs from this band? I just started getting into the steampunk genre not too terribly long ago and find myself LOVING it more and more! <3 Looking to be able to come across as many good bands/songs in this genre as possible ! :) Thanks so much

I don't really listen to much steampunk music but there's The Cog is Dead and I liked New Albion from A Steampunk Opera

I would recommend doing a definite binge of this band. Very good. Because I am a total nerd, here is my run down of the albums.
Album 1 very folksy very vaudville
2 cent show Road trip of epic ness
Mark 3 The punk rock makes an appearance. Still many time period
Vice quadrant Is literally a 2 hour story
Quintessential I hav not listened to enough

I really don't think I could ever get tired of this song :)

i have found a new band ._. thank u person i know

I have an album called for the dudes, its for when me and my pals chill. This is the top song.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate The Spine's glow up with his make up now?

I just found out about SPG because of Steamworld Heist, I think I found my favorite band.

Honestly people who say SPG is a bunch of sellouts now are wrong. They're entertaining their fans and theyve just changed a little. Everyone does. Can we ignore it?

Love you guys. <3

I don't think I ever heard a song that filled me with this much happiness >u< I'm so giddy and I wanna go to the clockwork vaudeville!! <3

I love the sound of 3:52, but the backing lyrics are so silly that I cant sing them anywhere

3:50 I love Rabbit's vocal transition here- it's so raw and powerful. Would love to hear this sound more!

I think it's The Spine.

He's made a similar voice in the Brass Goggles old version.

Cassius Coleman That's actually the Spine!
Their voices are hard to tell apart, because, well, they're twins, but I'm sure it's the Spine.

Man, I was listening to Dr. Steel and it autoplayed me into some Steam Powered Giraffe. This takes me back. I saw them at Queen Bee back in November of 2008. The show was great and I got the entire band to sign my face with paint pens. It was a good night. XD Keep up the good work guys. Hope you come to L.A. soon so I can come see you again!!!

The opening reminds me of a Ink Spots opening, NICE.

This is great not being the only one to notice that. heh

Ive always this theory, that The Spine was an actual person and was turned into an automaton (havent really read the lore) but i feel like, if thats true, this would be the song to prove it

"There were 4 metal people. Dressed oh so sharply." I think its michael reed. The spine was already in the band.

I like this better without Upgrade's voice.

ITS SO COO0L I REaly liked

I love the random yelling XD

Not that this makes the song any worse but
Who goes down to a fair
Holding nothing but a nickel
Buys a pickle, of all things
And then proceeds to spend the change on singing AI.
What kind of fair is this that the two best courses of actions are "Buy a less-than-a-nickel-pickle" and "Go spend a cent to see the world's greatest invention, A.I. sing and dance".
I mean what kind of fair charges almost a nickel for a pickle but only a cent for, not only a live performance, but a live performance from fkn Artificial Intelligence. Priorities, man.

Well clearly you don't get the point in old fashioned music, if you actually pay attention, their songs are mostly about the olden times, sorry but if your gonna just complain don't listen to the music, they are amazing and yes a nickel was classed as a lot of money back in the day, trust me I should know, the industrial Times is the time period I study so yh

Young people. Y'all literally don't get it.

Abalone Waters I think it was supposed to be Taken as a joke.

@Angry Squirrel Productions *legendary comment*

Is that a tuba I hear?

I think so. But I'm not sure how cause none of them play brass right?

Keyboard Synthesizer prolly.

So did the little boy just joined the band, or did they make him a robot (I do not want to imagine how)?

some people think that this is the jon's backstory

Speed it up by 1.25. It works either way.

+HetaliaCalifornia Woah

Lol, sounds more like the live version if you do. I like this in both speeds but a bit up tempo does sound nice too.

Kind of jumped at the line, "when I was a young boy."

+BlackSheepNara He said "will you defeat them?"

Clikky Bait the plans that they have made

because one day I'll leave you

john carter a phantom

when i was
a young boy
my father took me into the city
to see a clockwork vaudeville
he said son when you grow up
would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?
'cause one day,
i'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer,
To join the steam man band.

my friend said that SPG was weird and i said that weird is just a side effect of being awesome :3

Let me guess, he likes Little Wayne, Kate Perry, and Maroon Five.


I know those type of people; my friend thinks Trace Adkins, Sugarland, and Toby Keith are great but says Smashing Pumpkins, Poets Of The Fall, and Steam Powered Giraffe are silly and not artistic.

+Joshua Does your friend have a soul? I thought 5 part harmonies across 5 people was quite difficult to pull off properly, but maybe that's just the musician in me talking... Oh wait.

@Hawkeye TheDarkAvenger What do you mean?

I meant brain. It's not artistic is what I was aiming at, because that stuff is hard to pull off.

All your songs are pretty awesome, but this one always gives me the chills. I wish you do more songs in this style :)

so is their music genre electro sling? because it sounds like it alot and i dont mean to offend anything. I just have a question and hope someone can tell me :D

+August Puzzleskit and i love the music so much i cant believe im so late with it.

A lot of their stuff is folk rock not really electro swing

there is a section that sounds like Me and My Baby. i am wondering which song was written first. Me and My Baby or Clock work Vaudville.

Oh that's true

+Caitlyn WIlliams I think this one was written first I've seen a video of them performing this on the street but i didn't find one of me and my baby

@jwkp9090 Same here, i have seen street performances of this but not me and my baby, so its just one of those things i guess only they could answer, because David could have had me and my baby written before SPG for all we know. We can only speculate.

True lol

I don't know if you found the answer...but Clockwork came first me and my baby was a harmony lyric. only reason I know is because I found an old video with them singing clockwork back in balboa park rabbit would sing me and my baby love Saturday nights.

Is it wrong that I can picture this song playing at Freddie Fazbear's Pizzeria? Seriously, just listen to that third verse and try not to think about it.

Five Nights At Freddy's sucks.

+Siras13 No.

3:16 sounds like Rabbit scream/laugh :)

Sierra Laurelle I think that’s Jon. 😂

I love this so much! >w<

Dead from the scream in the background at 1:29
"neAy"

Not programmed to bite! LOL

Probably about Michael reed joining or sum thing like that

My life goal is to hear this song ft. Rabbit's cute femme voice 
That is what I need

indy weasly they're both awesome

I think they played this one at their 1st April live concert :)

They've played it on their youtube concerts

I lived your dream last month

they uploaded a practice video with Rabbit 2.0 and Zero!

Nice song! :D

The scream at 1:30 makes me laugh everytime xD 

+KiwamiClaud EAY!!! I FOUND SOME-- Oh, you guys are recording, k, soz.

always makes me think its steve but i don't think it is

3:16 is where i lost it

That's the one thing i don't like about the modern versions, they could never do that scream justice

So im new to the whole SPG thing so i decided lets listen to the begining and not just the present and god i dont regret it

Omg me too, and now I'm totally obsessed with them

Personally i prefer the older songs, the new stuff is good but ive always been a sucker for the classics lol

Bands gotta change and evolve over time, that's just how it is, but I'll always love the old stuff the best

That seems to be the case with a lot if good bands these days....
Nothing can replace that nostalgic feel

I love all there songs! Only one I cant stand is the one where they try to rap.

+PikachuJackskeling94 I don't think that one really counts as an actual music video. They're entertainers as well as musicians, i think that was really just for laughs.

if that as it then it was funny but if it was supposed to be a song then it didn't work at all in my opinion :)

yeah, if it were a song i'd be pretty dissapointed

You have to remember that while Steam :Powered Giraffe is musical act they're also a comical act.


Look at Go Spine Go and Walter Robotics Rap as joke songs.

i know that

Holy hell, Hatchworch is in this one, Lore is an amazing thing

The opening reminds me of Honeybee :D

THIS SONG IS HAPPY WHY AM I CRYING???

Maybe cause Jon is no longer in the band?

It’s actually not happy if you listen to it’s lyrics. A kid goes to the fair for fun, but is tricked and turned into a robot to forever play music and slave away. Soo

藤本詩織
Techinically, he wasn't tricked. The kid agreed to it.

Too pure for this world

i love you guys <33333 not really into music like this but how can you not love them

Awesome! One of my favorites. ^_^

very easy listening ,,i Love stream powered giraffe cant wait for video

Anyone else notice that a lot (if not all) of the live versions of this song (at the Globe of Yesterday's Tomorrow, for example) is missing an entire verse?

love this song! <3

I adore this song ^-^

Classic

My favorite part of this song (and all of its iterations) has always been the funny noises and random shouting :3

Memes man

I like how nice and chill this song is, especially after a stress filled day at work. 

Out of all of your guys songs this is my favorite one!!

*Sigh* Such warm fuzzy feels. I was hoping they would do a couple of their earlier songs like this at the SPWF. Other than Honeybee(which was fantastic) they didn't. S'all good though. 

Ah! This is my favorite SPG song :3

God I love this song so much <3 thanks for uploading it guys :)

This was the first SPG song I ever heard

@Vaughn Winter The band used to have four members, Rabbit, the Spine, the Jon and Upgrade.

I love this song so much. It's one of my absolute favorites as far as music by any artist goes and I never get tired of listening to it (like, seriously... I've caught myself listening to it on repeat about ten times over before I stop and think, "Wait, wasn't I supposed to be doing something?") Thank you so much for uploading it! I love you guys! <3

When it is slowed down it sounds like a steam powered giraffe vocaloid!

I absolutely adore their new stuff but I get this crazy warm feeling listening to their early stuff.

I love songs that tell a story and don't get caught up too much in the chorus

Everyone's going to the Clockwork Vaudeville! (Except for me 'cause I live far away)

I noticed a little discontinuity in the song. The lyric, "There were FOUR metal people, dressed oh, so sharply". There were only 3 band members, unless you count Micheal Reed, and Sam Luke, but that makes FIVE. Anybody follow me?

They meant upgrade. She's not mentioned too often now.

"Upgrade"? Who is that?

OH! HER! I DID notice her in the background... And in some of there street performances.

Always felt like this was an origin song for someone... 

lordturtlemonk That’s what I thought. I personally think it’s Micheal Reed.

Chrome Squire yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

would love to see some of this older stuff in the live shows but I also like a lot of the current music and am looking forward to vice quadrant!

*bops along to the song happily*

I can't be the only one tired of seeing every SPG video comment section filled with remarks about how they 'used to be better' or how they've 'lost their touch' -___-

It's like, we get it, they're soulless sellouts now because they don't dress like they used to or write the same songs over and over again...can we move on maybe?

This reply section just made this so much more interesting, I have no idea what's going on anymore, and I love it.

....what the fuck

I know I'm kinda late, but do you happen to have any more cookies?

@ThatOneFreak 'sall good

Were there different versions of Album One made? I thought this album had Upgrade in it...

it's okay friend just trying to help. thank you for the info, just one day hope to come across a version of this album with upgrades vocals just to be able to hear what she sounds like with the whole gang

Yeah, I don't think that really exists anymore. Sorry!

Kinda sounds better without Upgrade anyway.

here are two with some quality Balboa park material
BiblioRook
trekkiebeth (also has top notch zoo material)
-your friendly nerd

That makes me so sad :(

Love this song :]

The mood of this music is just to my taste.

One of my favorites :)

I love this song! Thanks for the throwback to the old days

So have ya'll decided to upload all of album one?

So why are you guys advertising the first album? Trying to get it out of print?

From what I remember, on their last Q&A, the subject of revisiting the older songs they made was brought up. They said they'd start Doing that and or they like the idea.

This song makes me want to drink lemonade on my porch.

@Joshua Graves Really?  Seems a natural reaction to me(Although I prefer Sweet Tea) Think Southern US, front porch, rocking chair, and waving to the neighbors ;). 

Then you might also like It's Alright by Poor Man's Poison. It has a similar feel

When I play card games, I would play this and Heist Ho!

I feel that

I read this as "this song makes me wanna drink lemonade out of my pouch"

When I was a young boy, I went down to the county fair!

I don't know why this is happening but I'm glad that it is.

Is this song about a boy being turned into one of the robots at the fair, to be honest, that's a bit messed up.

@Turanikan would you like it more if they sung about sex twerking and alcohol? ... or shooting logs and washing dogs..because honestly I wouldnt X"D

@Justin Baker Without any further ado: ATTUNE YOUR EAR-SS. TO THE GRINDING GEAR-SS.

I thought it was Michael. o-o