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The Way The World Works

by Machines That Think

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1.
Stay 04:26
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
2.
Tarradiddle 03:39
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
3.
Core 04:38
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
Divide 06:13
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
Macabre 04:53
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
10.
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
11.
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
12.
Burn 04:16
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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
16.
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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released July 2, 2011

Music and Lyrics by Pranay Patel

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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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