Song Description

This is the epic that spawned our album. It comments on the state we live in, but as brooding as the song and lyrics can be at times, there's a great sense of hope as well. I hope you have the patience to hear for yourself.

Lyrics

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 were raised on our soil
While the drowning voice of six million strong
Sink and get 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
And you scream not our boys
And our children need their joy
While their children are dying
From making our shoes

It's easy in the public light to say it's for human life
But when questions go and doors close
You turn a blind eye
It's a complicated place
A place of hope and change
Of war and hate
Of fear and struggle
Of faith and race
About lives lost in a distant place
About hearing a voice behind their face
About taking a step towards the voice of change

You say I don't believe
Well I believe in our dreams
And I believe in our ghosts
And I believe in our empathy

And it's certainly true
There's a lot to lose
Now it's 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 to 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 trust
Because you're heartless and empty and cold

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 ones faith
Above what is right

But we're all part of this machine
This machine that lets you up
Unified or segregated

But we're all part of this machine
This machine that lets you up
And never lets you go

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 seen
It's mundane or it's obscene
No matter how it makes you feel
It makes you part of this machine

Everything you wish was real
Up to the legacies you live
Throw away your dreams
And become part of this machine

Part of this Machine.