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JAMES MURPHY LYRICS
"Feeding the Machine" (1999)
1. Feeding the Machine
2. Contagion
3. No One Can Tell You
4. Epoch
5. Deconstruct
6. Odyssey
7. Through Your Eyes (Distant Mirrors)
8. Race With Devil on Spanish Highway
9. Visitors
10. In Lingua Mortua
1. Feeding the Machine
An overwhelming thing that couldn’t be
That could be this voice, controlling me
I’ll sit alone, not without company
Thoughts that don’t pass they reside inside
Feed Feed
Feed Feed
Can it be the voice inside me
Taking control of all that will and will not be
Hopes will be feeding the machine
Always fighting through the days
To make the chance that I must take
Don’t live back in yesterdays
For time won’t wait to lead us the way
I’m choking on thought, it flows without sympathy
Driving force from within, no stop
I cannot deny this thing that’s a part of me
So I work for the cause, it just must be
Feed Feed
Feed Feed
Can it be the voice inside me
Taking control of all that will and will not be
Hopes will be feeding the machine
Always fighting through the days
To make the chance that I must take
Don’t live back in yesterdays
For time won’t wait to lead us the way
As I look back upon all this in front of me
I understand why it made my mind
Feed Feed
Feed Feed
Can it be the voice inside me
Taking control of all that will and will not be
Hopes will be feeding the machine
Always fighting through the days
To make the chance that I must take
Don’t live back in yesterdays
For time won’t wait to lead us the way
2. Contagion
3. No One Can Tell You
Lost - a life that’s lost beyond the hope of turning back
Fate – you chose your fate when you walked blindly down that path
Never heed the voice of reason ringing in your ears
Cost – you’ll pay the cost when the reckoning draws near
Never listen to the truth that stares you in your face
You look and you don’t see, but we’ll soon see who’s laughing last
Always make the same mistakes
The crime is self deceit, you learned no lessons from your past
Blind – you never see the truth before your eyes
Fear – you’ll feel the fear that keeps you running for your life
Never faced reality but now you’re gonna see
Hate – you breed the hate that slowly brings you to your knees
Never listen to the truth that stares you in your face
You look and you don’t see, but we’ll soon see who’s laughing last
Always make the same mistakes
The crime is self deceit, you learned no lessons from your past
No one knows what you believe
No one can tell you what to see
No one knows your mind like you
No one can tell you
Lost - a life that’s lost beyond the hope of turning back
Fate – you chose your fate when you walked blindly down that path
Never heed the voice of reason ringing in your ears
Cost – you’ll pay the cost when the reckoning draws near
Never listen to the truth that stares you in your face
You look and you don’t see, but we’ll soon see who’s laughing last
Always make the same mistakes
The crime is self deceit, you learned no lessons from your past
Blind – you never see the truth before your eyes
Fear – you’ll feel the fear that keeps you running for your life
Never faced reality but now you’re gonna see
Hate – you breed the hate that slowly brings you to your knees
Never listen to the truth that stares you in your face
You look and you don’t see, but I’m the one who’s laughing last
Always make the same mistakes
The crime is self deceit, you learned no lessons from your past
No one knows what you believe
No one can tell you what to see
No one knows your mind like you
No one can tell you
No one knows what you believe
No one can tell you what to see
No one knows your mind like you
No one can tell you
4. Epoch
5. Deconstruct
Been least 40 days and 40 nights since I’ve been found
A dark and empty place that holds one thing and it’s me
Held up in this frozen state, I’m stuck and I won’t move
I think but don’t think anymore, not anymore
Recently I’ve fallen
To my knees I’m falling
Deconstructing everything that would become of me
Killing any chance that I might have
A chance that I will be the one, the only one to stand
To stand atop my destiny, come laugh with me
Recently I’ve fallen
To my knees I’m stalling
Deconstruct this life
Broken dream is mine
Deconstruct this life
Broken dream is mine
Recently I’ve fallen to my knees, I’m stalling
Taste the fear, it’s calling out to me, I’m wanted
Recently I’ve fallen to my knees, I’m stalling
Taste the fear, it’s calling out to me, I’m wanted
Been least 40 days and 40 nights since I’ve been found
A dark and empty place that holds one thing and it’s me
Held up in this frozen state, I’m stuck and I won’t move
I think but don’t think anymore, not anymore
Recently I’ve fallen to my knees, I’m stalling
Taste the fear, it’s calling out to me, I’m wanted
Deconstruct this life
Broken dream is mine
Deconstruct this life
Broken dream is mine
6. Odyssey
7. Through Your Eyes (Distant Mirrors)
I can’t lie, I see why you are this way
Your feelings released, now you’re blinded by hate
I don’t know if you’ll change, that’s just your way
Unbearable existence, life in chains
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind, so blind
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind, so blind
You divide, deep inside, living in vain
You rationalize and you believe all your lies
How can you feel what it’s like inside your cage
Unbearable existence, life in chains
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind, so blind
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind
It wasn’t me, still reflecting the walls
It got me going when distant mirrors bent the angled halls
So who’s judgement is right...
With which excuse am I selling tonight?
The more I seem to know, judge and jury
The less my image grows
I may have caught a glimpse of myself in error
Or was it your reflection
Well, that’s what I think
That’s what I said
That’s what I meant
So get over it
You beg to differ
So make your case and make it now
The truth is not our own
To twist and spin around
I want to learn from my own reflections
I need to know it’s not obscured with your intensions
Not even for a moment
Well, that’s what I think
That’s what I said
That’s what I meant
So get over it
I can’t lie, I see why you are this way
Your feelings released, now you’re blinded by hate
I don’t know if you’ll change, that’s just your way
Unbearable existence, life in chains
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind, so blind
Looking through despair and pain – can’t you see, can’t you see
Looking through your eyes again – you’re so blind
8. Race With Devil on Spanish Highway
9. Visitors
After all these years discovery’s not blind
Unsubstantial fears twisted in my mind
In my mind...
Through my darkest hour, spectral plane empowered
Incandescent light... astral beams at night
They want to take you – and try to break you – examinate you
Visitors in the darkness
Carry me into the light
Visitors always around us
Have they invaded our lives
Our lives
After all these years discovery’s not blind
Incandescent light... astral beams at night
They want to take me – they try to break me - examine, rape me
Visitors in the darkness
Carry me into the light
Visitors always around us
Have they invaded our lives
Our lives
Through my darkest hour, spectral plane empowered
Incandescent light... astral beams at night
They want to take you – and try to break you – examinate you
Visitors in the darkness
Carry me into the light
Visitors always around us
Have they invaded our lives
10. In Lingua Mortua
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