1. |
Stay
04:26
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Not a moment passes by
Every time I try I try
And I see your smile
The world
Through your angel eyes
My head’s been spinning for days
Damn this place
If you’d choose me I’d stay
So just choose me, choose me I’ll stay
If I could ask for one more day
Stay
Leave but don’t leave me
Find a place
Somewhere in your heart
We can never be
And it’s killing me
You wanted to learn about the world
You wanted to see everything once
You saw all you needed to see
But you don’t see me
The world could stop its spinning state
We’d fly away into outer space
But your eyes say you saw the same
I just can’t let you go
There’s an emptiness that remains unexplained
In a day you’ll be an ocean away
Do you feel the same
You changed my world
You move me move me away
If you never saw me the same
There’s nothing I’d change.
These days I feel you pass
But I’d lie if I said
You were out of my head
In a thousand days
Memories withered away
Our voices changed
A piece will remain
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2. |
Tarradiddle
03:39
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He said “come on, it’s just the turn”
And it shot right through my bones and I was sold
It’s become clear
I’m alone
And I’ll try and say it’s just today
Knowing full well I’ve paved the way
For the empty space that I’ve defined
And now I’m trapped in limbo
How can I let go
Of my notes
When they’re the one thing
Solid as stone
So I’ve drawn the line
And no tarradiddle will come and define
How I live, how I choose, how I dream
In a world that tries to define your dogma as my way of life
Don’t want your speech
Don’t press your faith
An open mind
Has dug my grave
I can’t escape
It’s too ingrained
My only fear is
I’m the same
But I want to dream
As he dreamed
I want to love as he loved
But I’m still afraid
I’ll never be
With the warmth
Of another’s beat
So you can go on, and change the world
I just want, another soul
But who knows what kind of enemies I’ve made
You try to change
All your souls
But maybe
I’ll never see
Or never care
How your god
Controls the world
So I’ll wait
For a place
Or a time
When I can be
Let out a scream
Doesn’t matter much to me
As long as this world’s got something in store
For my life
That’s my own
My voice
My role
A conscious thought
Not to share alone
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3. |
Core
04:38
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How do you see us?
Are we real?
Just made up?
These tubes surround you
The air that you breathe through
They say you’re lost somewhere
A place inside your head
But your light
Through the blackest hole
Shines like a burning star
Shooting through the sky
You and I
You take me to my core
This space, it’s freedom
No tubes, just heal
A star ocean glowing green
Supernovas shooting force fields
They say you’re lost somewhere
A place inside your head
But your light
Through the blackest hole
Shines like a burning star
Shooting through the sky
You and I
You take me to my core,
Do you ever ask why?
Do you even believe?
I wouldn’t
No I couldn’t
You can feel
And that’s real
You’re real
Through this nonsense.
All my problems
All my regrets
They’re childish
They’ll never take
The world you live in
You know you’d go away
Through the blackest hole
You Shine like a burning star
Shooting through the sky
You and I
You take me to the core
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4. |
At the Edge of Reason
04:58
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I slice and pierce and whittle my way through
These pointless things I do
For what?
To make some cash
To buy these things
Just spend
I never thought about the little things I've been missing out on
It's so easy when it's the same routine everyday
In my whole life, I wonder who I've touched
I wonder who knows I'm alive
Between the sky above and the sea below
What have I become
Standing here right now, at the edge of reason
One million miles away I could begin again
Wipe everything clear
I want to jump out
Want to melt and morph
Live a new life, where no one knows my name
Have a thousand first impressions
See a thousand sun sets
Have nothing to chain me
Be who I wanted to be
With peace of mind
I'd lose sense of time
Every night
And it's staring right at me
Will you ever be who you wanted to be
Right now
Will you ever find someone
Not just anyone
I'm doing the best I can
All aboard
Stop asking me if I'm okay
I'm not
I am not okay
I am not okay
I am not okay
Tired of living this way
Tired of living day to day
I want a cure
Once and for all
I am not okay
But I'm not afraid
I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid
I've found my peace this time
I'm not afraid
I am not afraid
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5. |
Push and Pull
03:53
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When it’s time
It’s over
Pack everything,
Ill be long gone
And this story
Can finally be told
Every little step
Turns to crawl
Can’t find my way home
When I’m there
I’m lost
Like I’m going nowhere
The highs one moment,
Then lows, close in
What’s worse, is knowing
The depths were in my head
Cause the highs, they hovered
The lows, mediocre
I’m left, in limbo
Just to see that I’m aware
When you’re on guard
All your life
You find yourself with time
Still no words
No notes
To escape tonight
They just push me over
Then pull me back, back under
Keep pushing me
And pulling me
Release me
When your friends, grow older
Find love, find another
It’s hard, staying sober
When you’re nowhere even close
Well my friends, it’s over
Our time, no longer
You found, another,
And this life is my charade
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6. |
Divide
06:13
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You used to scream
Just to scream
Now you just fall in line
You always said it’s a shame
The roles we play
But you calculate everything
And we divide
You chose to live your life
A million miles away from mine
And I need this time
To regain my sight
A clean break
To figure out what’s right
Because we’re going nowhere
And this waiting
Is draining me
The simple joys
Come and go
You ask yourself
What do you have left?
Where do you run when you’re out of breath?
I’ve got my words
And no one else
I’ve fallen to my knees
I’m a shell of what I used to be
How can you sleep?
When your dreams are too expensive
To ever want to keep
I’ve given up hope
On the chance that I can sleep
But I’m tossing and turning
Sweating through my sheets
It’s just a mess
There’s this uncertainty
I’m tired of second guessing everything
And I need this time
To regain my sight
A clean break
To figure out what’s right
Because we’re going nowhere
And the waiting
It’s draining me
The simple joys
Come and go
You ask yourself
What do you have left
Where do you run when you’re out of breath?
I’ve got my words
And no one else
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7. |
Giants Among Men
03:58
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And all this for what?
To claw my way to the top
At this dead end job
To show off my house (to all my friends)
To show my car
To show off my wife
I’m living life around this dead end march
Everything is safe here, there’s no change
This fucking fool just wants another sale
You think we like this pressure, like we’re giants among men?
It’s that need for a grade (you’re doing so well)
So sure it’ll secure your fate
In life
So twenty years from now (when you’re on your way)
In some dead end job
You too can get that raise
I’m living life around this dead end march
Everything is safe here, there’s no change
You don’t say
I’ll claw my way up this corporate hill
I’ll kick and scream
I’ll stalk and steal
To get my house
To get my ride
I need my things and I need them now.
I need my wife, not too fat, not too thin
I need my cup not too hot not to cold
I need my hair, just right color, not too short, not too long, just the perfect trim
And I need my things and I need them now
Because we’re giants
Giants among men
I want to start today again
Go and change my life
Again and again
I want to change path today
I want to live my life
I want to fall away
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8. |
These Ghostly Auroras
04:09
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In a far off place
What almost seems unreal
I used words like forever
Now I know better
Out here
It's getting hard to stop and see our place
The beauty in the little things everyday
I know it's there
It masks itself in such a mysterious way
I used to think things would fall into place
But I just can't explain
And I've had it up to here
Yeah I've had it up to here
When will we learn
We are one in the same
But we still fight
Over these tiny insignificant things
And I don't know if we'll change
No I don't know if we'll change
And one day
The clouds were so high
There was a haze of green and blue
And you opened your eyes
In the ghostly aurora
Into the flame
It's like someone reached out
And set fire to the sky
And I've had it up to here
Yeah I've had it up to here
When will we learn
We are one in the same
But we still fight
Over these tiny insignificant things
And I don't know if we'll change
No I don't know if we'll change
Nature is cruel
It doesn't care
As much as you think it should
So enjoy the view in front of you
And I've had it up to here
Yeah I've had it up to here
When will we learn
We are one in the same
But we still fight
Over these tiny insignificant things
And I don't know if we'll change
No I don't know if we'll change
We're so small
So small and frail in our tiny place
Amongst the beauty and the chaos
We're so small
Such small and tiny things
Amongst the beauty and the chaos
We're so small
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9. |
Macabre
04:53
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I haven't been honest with you
I just filter the truth
You know me
I'm ugly
And you'll never ever see
I will use you
You have no clue
How empty I can be
Run as fast as you can
Because you don't want me to choose
The grain of my lies are so smooth
So no one can know the truth
The blood pools
It's spilling through
Now I'm on the move
And I'm running through the woods
Every step is glued
I've been running so long
It's so hard to stay strong
I think it's time you learned the truth
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10. |
Minutes Before Sleep
04:19
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Everything we see and feel
Came from a point
Isn't that so weird
What was there?
Emptiness?
God himself?
Does that make sense?
The swirling clouds coalesced
The dust became self aware
It's hard to believe
All we see is just a glimpse of everything
There's an energy floating in between
That's keeps us here
It's hard to feel
Is it what you see
What you believe
Can you prove your faith
Play back a dream
Little pieces when it all began
Still pass through
We have no clue
Every second of everyday
A connecting force weaves its web
A constant stream through time and space
Wraps around, finds it's place
Here we are just tiny specs
In a place so large we can't comprehend
I'm beginning to feel dazed
I find myself turning away
I'm trying to make sense of the day
And a fool I am to play that game
The little things can make my day
If the train's on time I can't complain
I fall in love every day
A different girl in such different ways
I hate how I act when I'm afraid
You can see right through
And I'll try to change
I hate when I talk behind your back
I want to be nice but you're such an ass
Live today like it's your last
That's the kind of shit people say
If you lived everyday like it's your last
You'd be a drugged out mess so damn fast
I'm starting to see green
I have a few minutes left
Before things begin to pass
And the worrying goes away
Before I shut down
And dream it all away
I get scared about the days ahead
Time's moving fast and I'm standing still
I'm always in such a bind
I'm kind of surprised I haven't died
I miss my life
I miss my time
I miss my mom
I can't unwind
That's how it is in this place
The constant hum you can't erase
I wish I had more confidence
I wish I had better friends
I wish I had, had it made
I wish I had all of my time
But it's time to say goodbye
Enjoy the ride that lies ahead
For now it's time
Time to bed
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11. |
The Way the World Works
03:15
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How could we let this go?
How’d we become this way?
There’s so much we don’t know
And I lose my head
When everyone just looks away
We just don’t give a damn
How?
Love
I know it can find a way
And have we lost our heads
When we claim our stake
We lose our place
The world’s not ours to take
I hope someday you’ll change
We’re at a place
There’s a choice
Raise your voice
Or go without a sound
Go and reclaim your place
It’s our time
Through the fleeting past
In the time you have
Do the best you can
Millions die
Without a chance
It’s the way the world works
It’s the human race
Through pain and change
Can’t we see
We’re all the same
When we bleed
We all bleed red
It’s the way the world works
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12. |
Burn
04:16
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Truth by revelation
Is an easy temptation
It takes so much more
I just don't know
I just don't know
Stop asking me how this works
I just don't know
You lose all your faith
And find beauty in reality
Because there's one sure thing
That the truth will find it's
You can change everything
Just show what you can give
What happens underneath
Is still a mystery
The measures you seek
Are yet to be revealed
There's a beauty
In never knowing everything
And every little piece
Needs something to feed
In the end it all lights up
Just light it up
Just light it up
Just light it up
Let the barriers crumble down
Hear the voices hollow out
Just try and calm me down
Just try and calm me down
I wanted to burn it down right to the ground
Raise it up until you lose your faith
And find beauty in reality
Because there's one sure thing
That the truth will find it's way
I'm as faithful as I can be
But my options let me breathe
So don't give me some god damn speech
I know it'll take time, but time is on my side
But you can't tell me I have no place
The answers to the biggest things are so damn hard
How can you think you could read a book and know the truth
About everything and every one
It's been so long
I've tried to hard
I find myself
In this fucked up show
With the world on fire
I'll just sit and let it burn
Just let it burn
In side out
Just let it burn
Just let it burn
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13. |
To Lose Control
04:14
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Some things you have to see
Some things you have to believe
A touch, a smell
Uncertainty
In the absence of love I am an atheist
In the absence of love I’d have nothing left
To know you can go
Let it be in the past
Means nothing to me
If there’s nothing there I can feel
It grows on me, it grows on me
Until it leaves me all but blind
And you shouldn’t think, it’s quite alright
Because today you’re satisfied
To be vulnerable,
To have no strings
Nothing,
And to have no chance
You feel yourself losing control
If you’d let me run from this,
All of it
For some peace of mind
I’d go
What’s wrong with this sight?
I can’t seem to be satisfied.
And I hold on to the only thing
That can keep me out of sight
I keep holding, onto something
So important it’s grown alive
The keys I twist and turn will
Slip until I know why we’re alive.
You are what you love
But what loves you can never be controlled by you
And that is unbearable
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14. |
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Lose your frown and be strong
Because I cannot be your crutch anymore
And you know I care but there's nothing left to say
You're on your own
I'm educated in the ways people manipulate
So go on
Save yourself
It's not your fault
We've all been there
But I'm your friend
Your other hand
Say what you believe
Nothing else means a thing
No it won't ever end
You've got to save yourself I guess
Because there's no little man heaven
I'll find the hearth and watch it burn
Burn your past
No nothing's going to last
You're someone else
You're not yourself
So go on
Save yourself
It's not your fault
We've all been there
But I'm your friend
Your other hand
Say what you believe
Nothing else means a thing
No one wins
So when we're there
You can hold my hand
Just don't be scared
Set yourself free
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15. |
Position of Power
07:26
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It's hard to tell when I lost my edge
And I thought for a moment you were there
But you were just a ghost
Couldn't see you in the light
The two of us were there
And there was no one else
You were pulling on my arms again
I never meant to say all those things
And it wasn't just the little things it was everything
You were everything
And now I'm powerless
I'm powerless to you
And I'll go and reach
My vision of you has turned inside out
I'll go and dream but I want to see you now
Your sound fading out of range right now
Our place time, it seemed so sound
(Have you found someone else)
It looks sustained, I'm not that way
I did not
Now I'm a mess
Coalesced
It's a miracle I'm not dead
I'm a fool
It's the price I'd pay for you
I'd do this everything
Yeah I'd tear myself in two
This war, what a stench
Yeah it's driving me inside
You see, I believe
In one thing, it's the truth
When I dream we're both there
Yeah I see us together
I hope you do to
I wish I would've done more
But we should've known
This thing, so good, would be so frail
If it takes my life
I'll see you again
I just had the most vivid dream
You were cold and scared
There was thundering overhead
God I wish I was by your side
To hold, to see, in the flood
When you die
Take my things and take my wealth
Take my shoes you might as well
I'm on my own with no one else
I've my thoughts, I've got some friends
I've got my skills, I'm down to that
And all your faith, between you and me
It's all bullshit
In all our time
We all want change
We all sit down and complain
But real change comes down to this
You have to see the world through someone else
Once you go there you can never get back
Take my car and take my home
They're plastic things I'll let them go
You got to halves that don't make a whole
You got your thoughts you got your soul
Spend your time and picks your fights
The hell with the rest it's not their life
Just try and live your life on your terms
You'll learn to forgive and let it be
Embrace change not blind faith
You've got the will
You've got a chance
Play your part, don't choose your wealth
There comes a time, when you realize
Where you live isn't all there is
It hits you cold, down to the core
There's a world outside your door
Don't lose yourself in all the mess
You got the will you can handle this
Take the time with the ones you love
When they're gone it was never enough
With all your heart and all your strength
Choose your path, do the best you can
Choose your path, do the best you can
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16. |
Part of This Machine
11:14
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Can you even breathe this air?
Because you're as blank as they come
I just can’t see
How you accept the hypocrisy
You scream "there’s six dead"
In some foreign land.
Because they're raised on our soil
While the drowning voice
Of six million strong
Sink and go unheard
Because they’re a lost cause?
Not the same seed?
Because they’re a thousand miles away?
Is a life from the rich
Giving you the same sense of hope
Has it loved more or hurt less than theirs?
Because you scream “not our boys”
And our children need their joy
While their children are dieing from making our shoes
You say I don’t believe
Well I believe in our dreams
I believe in our ghosts
And I believe in our empathy
And it’s certainly true
There’s a lot to lose
Now’s the time to choose
So you’ve lived your life
Behind that empty book
Just another soul
Not to think twice
But now it’s time to think
No excuses can you hold
Don’t say I don’t believe
I don’t believe in your hate
I don’t believe in your trust
Because it’s heartless and empty and cold
I don’t believe it when you laugh
I don’t believe in your truth
Because I know it’s from what you’ve been sold
I don’t want to be part of this machine
This machine that brings you up and always lets you go
I don’t want to be part of this machine
This machine that fails to find the human in you
I don’t want to be part of this machine
This machine that puts one’s faith above what’s right
But we’re all part of this machine
This machine that let’s you up and always lets you go
Yeah we’re all part of this machine
This machine that let’s you up, unified or segregated
And all the things you are
And everyone you’ve been
I know you’ll change again
To become part of this machine
And everything you’ve seen
It mundane or it’s obscene
No matter how it makes you feel
It makes you part of this machine
Part of this machine
And everything you wish was real
Up to the legacies you leave
Time to throw away your dreams
And become part of this machine
Part of this machine
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Machines That Think Chicago, Illinois
Producing a wide range of sound that pulls from their wide ranging influences, Machines That Think is at its core a band rooted in rock music. Their take can sometimes spill from ambient shoe gaze to full on progressive rock. Hailing from Chicago, IL, the music absorbs the variety of the city and embraces every bit of it. ... more
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