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Cabinet Man

2026-01-22T21:49:51Z

Wingtub:

Cabinet Man is the third track on [[Spirit Phone]].

In the album's commentary track, [[Neil Cicierega|Neil]] explains inspirations for the song:<blockquote>"This is supposed to be the kind of ludicrous story that would show up in an old horror anthology, like Creepshow, with lots of creative gore and vivid lights."

" There is the urban legend of Polybius, a weird 80s arcade game that made people sick, and lose their minds, and die- but, the body horror element where a guy somehow medically transplants all his systems into a video game cabinet… not sure what I was doing when I came up with that one."</blockquote>The song is the third most popular [[Lemon Demon]] song on Spotify, where it currently has 70,000,000+ streams.

==Lyrics==
<nowiki>The day they found me, I hadn't yet been played
Inside my workshop behind the old arcade
Electric desires had unraveled all my wires
Now I'm in a box for safekeeping
The news reporters reported that I died
But all my organs were living on inside
Circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change
One big human heart gently beeping

You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

Thank God for business, they let me take the floor
I stood so proudly, like I was going to war
Players soon appeared and I quickly was revered
This must be what love would have felt like
Such dedication, they came from miles away
With eyes so piercing, they'd wait their turn to play
Perfect patient lines, because I was in their minds
I could do whatever I felt like (Whatever I felt like)

You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

I'm happy for years and years and
Only eating the occasional maintenance man
Only driving a few kids to madness
Maybe they were predisposed to madness, who knows?
I only want to have fun
But now they're telling me my days here are done
Cause there's a tiny little box that they make in Japan
And pretty soon it's gonna fit in your hand

It's getting lonely, it's getting hard to breathe
The arcade's empty, I think it's Christmas Eve
Someone's broken in, now they're painting on my skin
Breaking me and taking my quarters
Bashing in my face with a crowbar
Kicking me and pushing me over
Now they see my blood on their sneakers

You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine</nowiki>

== Trivia ==

* There is a [[Cabinet Man (Demo)|demo version]] of this song from 2009 included as a bonus track in the [[Needlejuice Records|Needlejuice]] Release.

Cabinet Man

2026-01-22T21:44:53Z

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Cabinet Man

2026-01-22T21:43:04Z

Wingtub: /* Lyrics */

Cabinet Man is the third track on [[Spirit Phone]].

In the album's commentary track, [[Neil Cicierega|Neil]] explains inspirations for the song:<blockquote>"This is supposed to be the kind of ludicrous story that would show up in an old horror anthology, like Creepshow, with lots of creative gore and vivid lights."

" There is the urban legend of Polybius, a weird 80s arcade game that made people sick, and lose their minds, and die- but, the body horror element where a guy somehow medically transplants all his systems into a video game cabinet… not sure what I was doing when I came up with that one."</blockquote>The song is the third most popular [[Lemon Demon]] song on Spotify, where it currently has 70,000,000+ streams.

==Lyrics==
<nowiki>The day they found me, I hadn't yet been played
Inside my workshop behind the old arcade
Electric desires had unraveled all my wires
Now I'm in a box for safekeeping
The news reporters reported that I died
But all my organs were living on inside
Circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change
One big human heart gently beeping

[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

[Verse 2]
Thank God for business, they let me take the floor
I stood so proudly, like I was going to war
Players soon appeared and I quickly was revered
This must be what love would have felt like
Such dedication, they came from miles away
With eyes so piercing, they'd wait their turn to play
Perfect patient lines, because I was in their minds
I could do whatever I felt like (Whatever I felt like)
[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

[Bridge]
I'm happy for years and years and
Only eating the occasional maintenance man
Only driving a few kids to madness
Maybe they were predisposed to madness, who knows?
I only want to have fun
But now they're telling me my days here are done
Cause there's a tiny little box that they make in Japan
And pretty soon it's gonna fit in your hand

[Verse 3]
It's getting lonely, it's getting hard to breathe
The arcade's empty, I think it's Christmas Eve
Someone's broken in, now they're painting on my skin
Breaking me and taking my quarters
Bashing in my face with a crowbar
Kicking me and pushing me over
Now they see my blood on their sneakers

[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine</nowiki>

Cabinet Man

2026-01-22T21:42:33Z

Wingtub: added lyrics

Cabinet Man is the third track on [[Spirit Phone]].

In the album's commentary track, [[Neil Cicierega|Neil]] explains inspirations for the song:<blockquote>"This is supposed to be the kind of ludicrous story that would show up in an old horror anthology, like Creepshow, with lots of creative gore and vivid lights."

" There is the urban legend of Polybius, a weird 80s arcade game that made people sick, and lose their minds, and die- but, the body horror element where a guy somehow medically transplants all his systems into a video game cabinet… not sure what I was doing when I came up with that one."</blockquote>The song is the third most popular [[Lemon Demon]] song on Spotify, where it currently has 70,000,000+ streams.

==Lyrics==
<nowiki>The day they found me, I hadn't yet been played
Inside my workshop behind the old arcade
Electric desires had unraveled all my wires
Now I'm in a box for safekeeping
The news reporters reported that I died
But all my organs were living on inside
Circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change
One big human heart gently beeping

[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

[Verse 2]
Thank God for business, they let me take the floor
I stood so proudly, like I was going to war
Players soon appeared and I quickly was revered
This must be what love would have felt like
Such dedication, they came from miles away
With eyes so piercing, they'd wait their turn to play
Perfect patient lines, because I was in their minds
I could do whatever I felt like (Whatever I felt like)
[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine

[Bridge]
I'm happy for years and years and
Only eating the occasional maintenance man
Only driving a few kids to madness
Maybe they were predisposed to madness, who knows?
I only want to have fun
But now they're telling me my days here are done
Cause there's a tiny little box that they make in Japan
And pretty soon it's gonna fit in your hand

[Verse 3]
It's getting lonely, it's getting hard to breathe
The arcade's empty, I think it's Christmas Eve
Someone's broken in, now they're painting on my skin
Breaking me and taking my quarters
Bashing in my face with a crowbar
Kicking me and pushing me over
Now they see my blood on their sneakers

[Chorus]
You can't win me, I can't be beat
I won't hurt you unless you cheat
You can't see me behind the screen
I'm half human and half machine
</nowiki>

Cabinet Man

2026-01-22T21:40:54Z

Wingtub: created the page

Touch-Tone Telephone

2026-01-22T21:24:53Z

Wingtub:

{{Infobox_song
|title = Touch-Tone Telephone
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = 2016
|albumart = Spirit Phone.jpg
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|album = [[Spirit Phone]]
|duration = 4:42
|tempo = 160
|genre = Pop
|language = English
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/track/touch-tone-telephone Bandcamp] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/track/touch-tone-telephone Needlejuice Bandcamp] [https://youtu.be/rbxL5BVEkRs YouTube] [https://open.spotify.com/track/1tmRlF5pFo8G5OfJYUjWrR?si=1036ee5fd45b48b0 Spotify]
}}
'''Touch-Tone Telephone''' is the second track on [[Spirit Phone]].

The main melody and chorus of this song is lifted from [[Ivanushka]], an [[unreleased]] 2009 demo track with entirely unrelated lyrics.<ref name=":0">https://youtu.be/yYTP-5Yds6k</ref>

[[Neil]] explained this song's lyrics in the album's [[Spirit Phone: Commentary|audio commentary track]]:<blockquote>"So… this song is about a dedicated caller into a radio show who has it all. figured. out. and he just needs to explain it to someone, and even just knowing how he’s gonna sound to other people is giving him all this anxiety and it’s coming out before he can even say what he wants so say. In fact, it never comes out. So, this song is just a big rant of preemptive defensiveness and saying you’re gonna do something without ever doing it."</blockquote>It is highly notable for being the second most popular [[Lemon Demon]] song on both Spotify<ref>https://open.spotify.com/artist/4llAOeA6kEF4ytaB2fsmcW?si=hOoH-OR-SaqFJXQTkQvFNQ</ref> and YouTube<ref>https://youtu.be/rbxL5BVEkRs</ref>, having garnered 90,000,000+ streams and 30,000,000+ views respectively.
== Lyrics ==
I think it's time for you to know the awful truth
Mm, the truth about me, and the truth about you
'Cause you're a brand-new species
Big cat (oh-oh), space Nazis, Robert Stack (oh, oh)
God-damn it, gonna snap, Leonard Nimoy (oh, oh-oh-oh-oh)
Call me back (call me back)

I try to call you every day
I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out (of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out

'Cause I'm the right one
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one
On your AM, AM radio

Oh, I'm crying now, authentic tears
They flow out of me when I think about you
'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand
'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand the meaning of this
Oh my god
I try, and I try, and I try to make you listen to me

I try to call you every day
I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out (of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out

'Cause I'm the right one
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one (hey)
On your AM, AM radio

Don't hang up yet, I'm not done
I'm an expert, I'm the one
The one who was right all along
Better to be laughed at than wrong

I'm an expert in my field
UFOlogy, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you

And like you, I'm a genius before my time
Disbelieving, that's the real crime
Pretty soon, they'll discover me
In the Super-Sargasso Sea

I try to call you every day
What can I say when the truth comes out? (Of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out (now)

'Cause I'm the right one (now) on my touch-tone telephone (now)
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one on your AM radio
(On your AM, AM radio)

==Trivia==
*This is one of two [[Lemon Demon]] songs to receive a single release on wax cylinder by [[Needlejuice Records]] in 2023.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/touch-tone-telephone-wax-cylinder</ref>

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Touch-Tone Telephone

2026-01-22T21:18:48Z

Wingtub: changed the streaming numbers

{{Infobox_song
|title = Touch-Tone Telephone
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = 2016
|albumart = Spirit Phone.jpg
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|album = [[Spirit Phone]]
|duration = 4:42
|tempo = 160
|genre = Pop
|language = English
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/track/touch-tone-telephone Bandcamp] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/track/touch-tone-telephone Needlejuice Bandcamp] [https://youtu.be/rbxL5BVEkRs YouTube] [https://open.spotify.com/track/1tmRlF5pFo8G5OfJYUjWrR?si=1036ee5fd45b48b0 Spotify]
}}
'''Touch-Tone Telephone''' is the second track on [[Spirit Phone]].

The main melody and chorus of this song is lifted from [[Ivanushka]], an [[unreleased]] 2009 demo track with entirely unrelated lyrics.<ref name=":0">https://youtu.be/yYTP-5Yds6k</ref>

[[Neil]] explained this song's lyrics in the album's audio commentary track<ref name=":0" />:<blockquote>"So… this song is about a dedicated caller into a radio show who has it all. figured. out. and he just needs to explain it to someone, and even just knowing how he’s gonna sound to other people is giving him all this anxiety and it’s coming out before he can even say what he wants so say. In fact, it never comes out. So, this song is just a big rant of preemptive defensiveness and saying you’re gonna do something without ever doing it."</blockquote>It is highly notable for being the second most popular [[Lemon Demon]] song on both Spotify<ref>https://open.spotify.com/artist/4llAOeA6kEF4ytaB2fsmcW?si=hOoH-OR-SaqFJXQTkQvFNQ</ref> and YouTube<ref>https://youtu.be/rbxL5BVEkRs</ref>, having garnered 90,000,000+ streams and 30,000,000+ views respectively.
== Lyrics ==
I think it's time for you to know the awful truth
Mm, the truth about me, and the truth about you
'Cause you're a brand-new species
Big cat (oh-oh), space Nazis, Robert Stack (oh, oh)
God-damn it, gonna snap, Leonard Nimoy (oh, oh-oh-oh-oh)
Call me back (call me back)

I try to call you every day
I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out (of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out

'Cause I'm the right one
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one
On your AM, AM radio

Oh, I'm crying now, authentic tears
They flow out of me when I think about you
'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand
'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand the meaning of this
Oh my god
I try, and I try, and I try to make you listen to me

I try to call you every day
I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out (of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out

'Cause I'm the right one
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one (hey)
On your AM, AM radio

Don't hang up yet, I'm not done
I'm an expert, I'm the one
The one who was right all along
Better to be laughed at than wrong

I'm an expert in my field
UFOlogy, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you

And like you, I'm a genius before my time
Disbelieving, that's the real crime
Pretty soon, they'll discover me
In the Super-Sargasso Sea

I try to call you every day
What can I say when the truth comes out? (Of my very own mouth)
I've been working on a unified theory
If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out (now)

'Cause I'm the right one (now) on my touch-tone telephone (now)
On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone
I'm the only one on your AM radio
(On your AM, AM radio)

==Trivia==
*This is one of two [[Lemon Demon]] songs to receive a single release on wax cylinder by [[Needlejuice Records]] in 2023.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/touch-tone-telephone-wax-cylinder</ref>

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