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Part of This Machine

from The Way The World Works by Machines That Think

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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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from The Way The World Works, released July 2, 2011

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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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