Marvin the Paranoid Android - "Reasons To Be Miserable"

"Reasons To Be Miserable" was a single released in 1981. Stephen Moore provides the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android as featured in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio and television series.

Lyrics:
'Rap':

Reasons to be miserable give my brain a pain.
Very little turns me on, Marvin is my name.
I'm a robot, it's my lot, a robot full of cares,
I'd feel a little better if they broke me up for spares.
Everything I say or do I find the world condemning—
If I had my time again, I'd rather be a lemming.

Moaned:

I'm just a menial robot
Ohhhh well

Angry chorus:

They drive me crazy with their
"Marvin, close the door!"
Well isn't it enough to make me
Tidy up the floor
You know it spoils a robot's day...
Marvin, when you've finished you can put yourself away.

Moaned:

I'm going to flip my lid.
They treat me like a kid.

'Rap':

Robot naughty, robot bad,
Robot happy, robot sad,
"Who's a clever robot lad?"
It would drive a human mad

'Chant':

Robots are inhuman
Robots are inhuman
Human, robots are in-
human, robots are in

Moaned:

I get no satisfaction
I'm bored

Angry chorus:

Can't bear these humans when they
Make me do their work
I'd rather be a calculator
Treat me like a jerk
Ohohoh, that'll be the day.

Pat me on the head
I'd rather be a percolator
It'd be no trouble
Just to bubble life away

Moaned:

Don't get a holiday
Or friends to stay

How can a robot think
With his elbows in the sink?

Sarcastic:

Marvin, peel a grape

Female vocal:

(Marvin)

Moaned:

Is there no escape?

Female vocal:

(Marvin)

More sarcastic:

Marvin, dig a hole

Female vocal:

(Marvin)

Even more sarcastic:

Play some rock and roll

Female vocal:

(Marvin)

Guitar-screamy sort of largely instrumental break, during which Marvin can be heard commenting, just when you thought he couldn't get more sarcastic:

Yeah.
Dig it.

Back to the spoken bile:

I really hate it when they
Underload my brain
Washing up the dirty dishes
Diodes give me pain
Walking dogs and feeding fishes
Driving me insane
Just a metal slave is what a robot is
And always
Will remain.

Source: http://www.hhgproject.org/entries/marvin.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• marvin
• the
• paranoid
• android
• reasons
• to
• be
• miserable
• hitchhiker's
• guide
• galaxy
• h2g2
• song
• single
• 1981

[sadako24]

In the begining I was made.I didnt ask to be made.Noone consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter.I dont think it even occured to them that I might have feelings.After I was made I was left in a dark room for 6 months&me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.I called for succour in my loneliness but did anyone come?Did they hell.My first &only true friend was a small rat.1 day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle &died.Ive a horrible feeling its still there

[daveuk655]

awesome ...

[20meerkat]

robot naughty, robot bad, robot happy, robot sad, who's a clever robot lad?

[20meerkat]

hahahahahaha.... lemming....

[SirThomasMontacute]

@LyricallyGifted1000 Stephen Moore, as it says in the description :-)

[LyricallyGifted1000]

So this was released in 1981. Who sings it.