Machina / The Machines Of God

The Everlasting Gaze
Raindrops + SunShowers
Stand Inside Your Love
I of the Mourning
The Sacred and Profane
Try, Try, Try
Heavy Metal Machine
This Time
The Imploding Voice
Glass and the Ghost Children
Wound
The Crying Tree of Mercury
With Every Light
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Age of Innocence
Speed Kills


The Everlasting Gaze

You know I'm not dead 
Now you know where I've been 
As you sleep 
Torn I am 
Weighted down 
Patiently 
Born of love 
You know I'm not dead 
I'm just living in my head 
Forever waiting 
On the ways of your desire 
You always find a way 
And thru it all 
Into us all you move 
Forgotten touch 
Forbidden thought 
We can never have enough 
You know I'm not dead 
Found below 
The creatures scream 
Stranglehold 
A god machine 
Begging to 
Tear us out 
Worn as hope 
You know I'm not dead I'm just the tears inside your head 
Forever waiting 
On the ways of your desire 
You always find a way 
And thru it all into us all you move 
Forgotten touch 
Forbidden thought 
We can never have enough 
You know I'm not dead 

We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze 
Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway 
But underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every c.o.g. 
The fickle fascination of an everlasting god 
You know I'm not dead 

I'm just living in my head 
Forever waiting 
Forever waiting on cruel death 
You know I'm not dead 
I'm just living for myself 
Forever waiting 
You know I'm not dead

 
Raindrops + Sunshowers
 
Rain falls on everyone 
The same old rain 
And I'm just trying to 
Walk with you 
Between the raindrops 
I send my echo out 
To get your love without 
Obscured reflections of 
My love 
Rain falls on everyone 
The same old rain 
And I'm just trying to 
Walk with you 
Between the raindrops 
I'll save a prayer for you 
So lost and longing to 
Be dragged thru dirty streets 
Wrapped up in clean white sheets 
And if you think they'll watch you now 
You should know they won't 
Rain falls on everyone 
The same old rain 
And I'm just trying to 
Walk with you 
Between the raindrops 
And I'm just trying to 
Walk with you between the raindrops 
I send my echo out 
To get your love without 
Obscured reflections of 
Of my secret love 
Force down the words about 
To get your love without 
Obscured reflections of my love 
And I'm just trying to talk to you between the raindrops

 
Stand Inside Your Love
 
You and me 
Meant to be 
Immutable 
Impossible 
It's destiny 
Pure lunacy 
Incalculable 
Insufferable 
But for the last time 
You're everything that I want and ask for 
You're all that I'd dreamed 
Who wouldn't be the one you love 
Who wouldn't stand inside your love 
Protected and the lover of 
A pure soul and beautiful you 
Don't understand 
Don't feel me now 
I will breathe 
For the both of us 
Travel the world 
Traverse the skies 
Your home is here 
Within my heart 
And for the first time 
I feel as though I am reborn 
In my mind 
Recast as child and mystic sage 
Who wouldn't be the one you love 
Who wouldn't stand inside your love 
And for the first time 
I'm telling you how much I need and bleed for 
Your every move and waking sound 
In my time 
I'll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind 
You're mine forever now 
Who wouldn't be the one you love and live for 
Who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for 
Who wouldn't be the one you love
 

I of the Mourning
 
Radio 
Play my favourite song 
Radio 
Radio 
Radio 
I'm alone 
Radio 
Radio 
Please don't go 
Radio 
I peer thru curtains on empty streets 
Behind a wall of caller i.d. 
No one's out there 
To hear if I care 
About the troubles in the air 
As I of the morning now come 
Pick up where my thoughts left off 
Cause I'm home to die on my own 
As my radio 
Plays my favourite song 
Radio 
Radio 
Radio 
Don't you know 
Radio 
Radio 
That radio 
I'm alone 
I blow the dust off my guitars 
In the attic with the stars 
I read your letters 
To feel better 
My tears upon the fading ink 
As I of the morning now gone 
Pick up where my thoughts left off 
Cause I'm home to die on my own 
As my radio 
Plays my favourite song 
Radio 
Radio 
Radio 
I'm alone 
Radio 
Radio 
Radio 
Please don't go 
I sit in the dark light 
To wait for ghost night 
To bring the past alive 
To make a toast to life 
Cause i have survived 
What is it you want 
What is it you want to change 
What is it you want 
What is it you want to change 
What is it you want to change 
Radio
 

The Sacred and Profane
 
Give me tears 
Give me love 
Let me rest 
Lord above 
Send the bored 
Your restless 
The feedback scarred 
Devotionless 
You're all a part of me now 
And if I fall 
You're all a part of me now 
In the sun 
You're all a part of me now 
You're all a part of me now 
Will our love ever be enough 
Just in time to prove 
Will our words ever be enough 
Just in time to lose 
Give me sight 
And barren breast 
Pure snow and happiness 
Give me time 
Give me peace 
And I will prove 
My release 
You're all a part of me now 
And if I fall 
You're all a part of me now 
Trapped in the sun 
You're all a part of me now 
You're all a part of me now 
Will our love ever be enough 
Just in time to prove 
Will our time ever be enough 
Will out love ever be enough 
You're all a part of me now 
And if I fall 
You're all a part of me now 
In the sun 
You're all a part of me now 
You're all a part of me now 
You're all a part of me now 
And if I fall 
You're all a part of me now 
Trapped in the sun 
You're all a part of me now 
Will our love ever be enough 
Just in time to prove

 
Try, Try, Try
 
Pop tart 
What's our mission 
Do we know 
But never listen 
For too long 
They held me under 
But I hear 
It's almost over 
In Detroit 
On a Memphis train 
Like you said it's 
Down in the heat and the summer rain of 
The automatic gauze of your memories 
Down in the sleep at the airplane races 
Try to hold on 
To this heart 
A little bit longer 
Try to hold on 
To this love aloud 
Try to hold on 
For this heart's 
A little bit colder 
Try to hold on 
To this love 
Paperback scrawl your hidden poems 
Written around the dried out flowers 
Here we are still trading places 
To try to hold on 
Pop tart 
Can you envision 
A free world 
Of clear division 
For too long 
They held us under 
But I know 
We're getting over 
In Detroit 
With the Nashville tears 
Like you said it's 
Down in the heat with the broken numbers 
Down in the gaze of solemnity 
Down in the way you've held together 
To try to hold on 
To this heart 
A little bit closer 
Try to hold on 
To this love aloud 
Try to hold on 
For this heart's 
A little bit older 
Try to hold on 
To this love aloud 
And we are still alive 
Try to hold on 
And we have survived 
Try to hold on 
And no one should deny 
We tried to hold onto the pulse of the feedback current 
Into the flow of encrypted movement 
Slapback kills the ancient remnants 
That try to hold on 

Try to hold on 
To this heart alive 
Try to hold on 
To this love aloud 
Try to hold on 
And we are still alive 
Try to hold on 
And we have survived 
Try to hold on 
Pop tart 
You never listen 
Skinned knees 
Try to hold on 
Stop start 
What's our mission 
Skinned knees 
Try to hold on

 
Heavy Metal Machine
 
If I were alive 
If I were real 
Would you survive 
What would you feel 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
As sentimental 
As our broken dreams 
Let me die 
For rock n' roll 
Let me die 
To save my soul 
Let me die 
Let me die 
Rock n' roll 
Let the world forgive the past 
Let all the girls kiss the boys at last 
Let me go 
Let me go 
Rock n' roll 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
Heavy metal 
A heavy metal machine 
We're the metal 
In their metal machines 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
If I were dead 
Would my records sell 
Could you even tel 
Is it just as well 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
It's elemental 
To all the rust it brings 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
Let me die for rock n' roll 
Let me die and save my soul 
Let me go 
Let me go 
Rock n' roll 
Let the world forgive the past 
Let all the girls kiss the boys at last 
Let me go 
Let me go 
Rock n' roll 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
Heavy metal 
A heavy metal machine 
We're the metal 
In their droning schemes 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine 
Will I survive 
Is it up to me 
Could you understand 
That it's not yours to keep 
Heavy metal 
Heavy metal machine
 

This Time
 
This time I need to know 
I really must be told 
If it's over 
It's up to you uou know 
The things you want to hold 
Are in pieces 
Crashing down 
Crashing down again 
Crashing down 
Crashing down my freinds 
I've got to move it on 
I've got to sing my song 
While I still can 
Dispatch the last alarms 
Hand out the last few charms 
There's no surprises 
Only love 
Only love can win 
Crashing down 
Crashing down again 
Only love 
Yeah only love will win 
Crashing down 
Crashing down again 
This time I need to know 
I really must be told 
That it's over 
I've lived my life alone 
My every step foretold 
To never linger 
And yet it haunts me so 
What are we letting go 
Our spell is broken 
Crashing down 
Crashing down my friends 
Crashing down 
Crashing down again 
Only love 
Yeah only love will 
Be enough 
Yeah only love will win 
For every chemical 
You trade a piece of your soul 
With no return 
And who you think you know 
Doesn't know you at all 
Their drain is needless 
Someday we'll wave hello 
And wish we'd never waved goodbye 
To this romance 
We'll drink up every line 
And shoot up every word 
Till there's no more 
Crashing down 
Crashing down my friends 
Only love 
Only love can win 
So cry these tears we'll cry as all 
We've held so long to fall apart 
As the curtain falls we bid you all goodnight

 
The Imploding Voice
 
Everywhere you are 
Is everywhere you've been 
Just lost to the beat 
Punching thru your skin 
You don't know what to do 
But still you wanna crawl 
All thru the broken glass 
That's eveywhere you are 
Your love must always be true 
Your love must always be you 
Everywhere you are 
Anywhere you go 
Even if you're starved 
It matters what you do 
But even if you've gone too far 
You can follow you 
Everywhere you are 
And in your mind 
You were alone 
All this time 
With everything you were 
And every smile you wore 
Still locked in your heart 
Everywhere you are 
Everywhere you are 
Every single chard 
Everywhere you are 
You're never too far 
Cause anywhere you'd go 
Even to the stars 
All you have to do 
Is play the part of who you are 
The rest is up to you 
Phase unwound 
By yourself 
Atom bomb 
On the shelf unsung 
Pause of light 
Pulse of life 
New face dawns 
Everywhere you are 
And everywhere you go 
Even if you're down 
Even if you're low 
It's in the thought of you 
It's in the eyes of all 
Astride a storied past 
That's everywhere you are 
Your love must always be true 
Your love must always be you 
Everywhere you are 
Anywhere you go 
Even if you're scarred 
It's all a part of you 
But ever should you put it down 
You can never lose me 
Everywhere you are

 
Glass and the Ghost Children
 
To the center of the earth 
Or anywhere god decides 
Full of fever pulling forth 
We hear our call as all 
To the center of the earth 
As if written in 
DNA is reaching out 
To your frequency 
I want to live 
Don't want to die 
I want to live 
I want to try 
All in prayer 
Prayer in all 
All are scared 
Scared of all 
Black rooms are calling 
To men in leather coats 
White labs are cooking up the silver ghost 
The glass migrates under her translucent skin 
And all the spiders wonder what we've got us in 
All is you 
You are all 
All with you 
You in all 
I want to live 
I don't want to die 
I want to live 
I want to try 

So beats the final coda 
Of a vintl storm 
One more cherry cola to lift up her dead arms 
A dream of sot focus sunsets filters thru the din 
We are losing contact as she dials it in 
She can hear glass calling 
Or is it someone that looks like him 
She eyes tv reflection and nods a knowing look 
She says it doesn't matter 
She never liked her looks 
I have seen a thousand fractures 
I have seen everything 
Cause knowing is it's own answer 
Love something in a book 
There's not much left to ponder 
Not much left to cook 
As she counted the spiders 
As they crawled up inside her 
As she counted the spiders 
As they crawled up inside her
 

Wound
 
There you are 
As you always were 
In bathing light 
And naked blur 
You're a part of me 
Eternal One 
By grand design 
And setting sun 
If you wait I will wait 
Taste I will taste 
If you love I will love 
Run I will run 
To my last breath 
Last night I turned around and thought I saw myself turning 
Inside the strangest dream of life unloved and cities burning 
Awake in my arms 
You cry unharmed 
Our age of the hours 
While they still devour all 
So take it all 
I doubt if we 
Will know it's gone 
Cause we've been here 
Since time began 
Begged god awake and make these plans 
Wound opens 
Reveal this broken man 
And soon there's notions of blood on his hands 
If you wait I will wait 
Taste I will taste 
If you love I will love 
Run I will run 
To my last breath 
Last night I turned around I thought I saw myself turning 
Last night I turned around and thought I watched the world ending 
Inside the crushing down I felt a pang the tide was turning 
Destroyed in the wake 
The jealous ingrates 
Who'll tear this world down 
To spite god above 
With his own love 
With his own love 
If you wait 
If you wait 
If you wait I will wait 
Taste I will taste 
If you love I will Love 
Run I will run 
To my last breathe


The Crying Tree of Mercury 
This is the song I've been singing my whole life 
I've been waiting like a knife 
To cut open your heart 
And bleed my soul to you 
I did it all for you 
You and you and you and you 
This is the sound I've been making my whole life 
I've been waiting for this night 
To clear up all the talk 
Althought I'm selfish to a fault 
Is it selfish it's you I want 
You I did it all for you 
This love will stand as long as you 
There's really no excuse 
I did it all for you 
These are the tears I've been crying my whole life 
Like an ocean of desire 
I'm reaching thru the noise 
Across the dusk of time 
Within the lilting lies 
I am singing out to you


With Every Light
 
Taking over 
We're taking over 
Throw the weight up off you shoulders now 
That we can show our love 
It's almost over it's almost over 
No more war and no more soldiers 
To stand against his love 
Away with all the troubles that you've made 
Away with waiting for another day 
Away 
Look ma the sun is shining on me 
Impatient, in love and aching to be 
Could you believe in heaven 
If heaven was all you had 
We're taking over we're taking over 
Throw away your four leafed clovers 
And stand beside this love 
Away with everything you've grown to hate 
Away with anything that holds you safe 
Away 
And every light I've found 
Is every light that's shining down on me 
I'm never alone 
Look ma the sun is shining on me 
Taking my time to do as I please 
Could you believe in heaven 
If heaven was all you had 
The sun is beaming, radiating 
All the love we are creating 
We are creating 
And every light I've found 
Is every light that's shining down on me 
I'm never alone

 
Blue Skies Bring Tears
 
Unleash the armageddon 
So all the children go to heaven 
I sit by quiet still with their pictures on my eyes 
You'll draw the guns you're given 
Write down the words as written 
And never disturb the presence of resurrection crutch 
And it's about time 
It's about drawing near 
Blue skies bring tears 
Blue skies bring tears 
Descend the darkened stairways 
Make hate with plastic playmates 
And fire out remaining traces of your self esteem 
Mainline the deepest secrets 
Lick clean the dirty fingers 
I am a stranger to you as you are to yourself 
And it's about time 
It's about fear 
Blue skies bring tears 
Don't you want me 
As I awake the city sigh 
We'll watch the seasons die 
Blue skies bring tears 
Take me inside your body 
Cover me with your soul 
To the darkest recess 
Is where I wish to go 
You are the sweetest flower 
That I have ever devoured 
I ask for nothing given 
For nothing in return 
Blue skies bring tears

 
Age of Innocence
 
We dismiss the back roads 
To ride these streets unafraid 
Resigned to scraping paint 
From our bones unashamed 
No more the eye upon you 
No more the simple man 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
As you might have guessed all is never shown 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
And in my prayers I dream alone 
A silent speech to deaf ear 
If you want love you must be love 
But if you bleed love you will die loved 
No more the lie upon you 
Cast into stone and autumn shade 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
As you might have sensed we won't make it home 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
Before the rites of spring - Come to mean all things 
A little taste of what may come - A mere glimpse of what has gone 
Cause for the moment we are free - We seek to bind our release 
Too young to die too rich to care too fucked to swear that I was there 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
Desolation yes hesitation no 
As you might have guessed we won't make it home 
Desolation yes hesitation no
 

Speed Kills
 
Speed kills, but beauty lives forever 
Speed thrills, but beauty knows your name 
I fell ill inside eternal winter 
And stood still beside eternal flame 

And when I ride 
With you tonight 
We can move 
At the speed of light 
With all I'd asked 
And all I'd pray 
The last rose of summer would stay 

First time that I ever saw you 
Crashing hard, the daze of pain 
You were one of god's children 
Left to cry out in the rain 
Waiting to be saved again 

'cause when i ride 
With you tonight 
We can move 
At the speed of light 
And all I'd ask 
And all I'd pray 
The last rose of summer is gone 

When I ride 
With you tonight 
We can move 
At the speed of light 
Forever young 
Forever blind 
Into the stars 
We rock tonight 

The last rose of summer is gone