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The Tide
05:43
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Trying to move on, to keep my head up
I’m sinking deeper every day
So tired of making excuses for myself
So sick of feeling this way
Holding the remains of the life I built
I’m barely keeping it together now
I used to think things would get better
But I just don’t know how
Is there someone who can help me
Or will I have to swim to shore?
My hands keep slipping
I’m afraid I can’t hold on anymore
The tide is coming in
The waves are pulling me back
Fighting against the current
Everything in front of me is turning black
You’d better not push me under again
Telling me I’m never good enough
You’ll never understand the shit I’m in
And you wonder why you lost my trust
This time I’ll be stronger
Trying to break through
swimming to the surface
My fingers turning blue
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Invisible
03:40
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I see you staring at me
It’s like you’re looking right through me
Always under pressure
To be what you want me to be
You think I’m less of a man
I could do all that I can
And still I’d never measure up
But I don’t even give a fuck anymore
I’m on the edge of society
I can’t see you
You don’t see me
Your oppression is despicable
To you I am invisible
I suffered for so goddamn long
Nobody cared
What’s right or wrong
Your hatred is so visceral
To you I am invisible
I know your kind
You’ve got no empathy
Ignorant at best
Brainwashed by the patriarchy
You wouldn’t want my life
But it doesn’t mean you have the right
To treat me like I’m less than you
This time I’m really through
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Cut You Out
03:34
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With the precision of a blade
I cut you from my life
Your face is a stranger’s
Your words are a knife
I thought I knew you
But you proved me wrong
And now I’m turning my back on you
What’s done is done
(I’ll never forgive what you did to me
I’ll never forget)
Cut you out
Push you down
Without a word
Without a sound
Cut you out
Push you down
(I’ll never forgive/I’ll never forget/I’ll never feel any regret)
Without a word
Without a sound
You’ve let me down too many times
I should’ve spoken
And now you’ve crossed the fucking line
My trust is broken
Why waste my energy
On someone who takes it away from me
I gave you too many chances
Can’t you see what it’s doing to me
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Standing on the beach
The sunlight in my eyes
Little tiny pieces of the life I left behind
I packed it all away today
I tried to let it go but I couldn’t stay
Wanted to tell you what you meant to me
Couldn’t find a way to make you see
Do you want to watch it burn?
(Slipping through my fingers yet again)
Seems like I’ve been here before
Will I ever fucking learn?
(Like it always does in the end)
I don’t want to feel like this anymore
I always look back
And it keeps me up at night
Someday I’m gonna fucking crack
When will I ever get it right?
Another perfect day
Just staring at the trees
The tallest palms I’d ever seen swaying in the breeze
This city will always be the same
Until you learn to play the game
But I let it get inside
My self-doubt ate me alive
Do you want to watch it burn?
(Slipping through my fingers yet again)
Seems like I’ve been here before
Will I ever fucking learn?
(Like it always does in the end)
I don’t want to feel like this anymore
I always look back
And it keeps me up at night
Someday I’m gonna fucking crack
When will I ever get it right?
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Locked Out
06:02
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Swallowing my pride
I wallow in my shame
Knowing all along I’ve only got myself to blame
For all that never was
And what you took from me
I turn around and run like hell
From all that couldn’t be
This is the last time that you prey on my insecurity
Don’t want you hanging around no more
I don’t know why it took me so long to see
That you were rotten to the core
I’ve been locked out
of the life I could’ve had
I don’t know where I went so wrong
or why I feel so fucking bad
Everything I thought I’d be
by now has gone away
Stop thinking you can save me
It doesn’t matter anyway
This time you’re never gonna break me
This time you’re never gonna make me
This time you’re never gonna take me down
I’ve been locked out
This time you’re never gonna break me
This time you’re never gonna make me
This time you’re never gonna take me down
I’ve been locked out
You just keep on using me
until you use me up
Keep on telling me I’m never good enough
Let this be my lesson
To stay away from you
The dreams you took away from me
Are never coming true
I want to wake up someday and be done with you for good
I don’t know why I wasted all my time
But still you haunt me like only you could
You turned up like a bad penny at the drop of a dime
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Transience
05:25
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I wake up and I’m somewhere else again
Another life, another city
I’m hiding from the ghosts in my past
Walking these streets and it looks so pretty
Something took me away from my dreams
Time made a fool out of me
Going backwards just to get away
From all these fucked up memories
Wherever I go there I am
I’m doing all that I can
Thousands of miles from this pain and sorrow
I could be gone again tomorrow
Adrift and at war
With the demons I can’t face
I never thought I’d still
Be stuck in this place
Don’t wanna think about what I’ve lost
And whether you’ve moved on from me
I’ll make it through the night at any cost
It’s obvious to me it wasn’t meant to be
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Invalidate
04:09
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You never believed me
Telling me that I’m wrong
You just kept right on
Stringing me along
Get your gaslight
Out of my face
I’m just trying
To claim my space
Can you blame me
If I put up a wall
You say I’m too much
But I don’t mean anything at all
To you
After everything I tried
I still get all torn up inside
Push me to my breaking point
Then turn around and disappoint
You treat me like I’m nothing to you
I’ve lost all sight of what’s even true
I won’t be silenced, I won’t be berated
I won’t be invalidated
I never mattered to you
And now I’ve been replaced
Don’t know why I even bother
I never want to see your face…again
I hope someday you’re fucking sorry
For the shit you put me through
Talking to me like you’re better than me
Like I don’t mean anything at all
To you
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Other Me
03:44
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You don’t even know who I am
But you don’t give a damn
You’ve already made up your mind
I was never who you thought I’d be
Nobody took me seriously
You’ve crossed the line this time
Other me
And put me in a category
Other me
You think you know what’s good for me
Other me
The life I live is not for you
Other me
Don’t smother me
I used to care about what they think
I always felt so out of sync
You never gave me a goddamn chance
Overlooked and undermined
Your prejudice has made you blind
You judge me by a single glance
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Needing You
04:41
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I don’t know where we go from here but down
You’re deep inside my head and pulling me to the ground
I should’ve walked away so many years ago
I never thought that I’d still feel so fucking low
When I close my eyes I always see your face
And every doubt I had is gone without a trace
You’ve got me under your thumb and under your spell
Can’t tell if I’m in heaven or in hell
Once I thought about leaving you
Now I feel like I’m needing you
Not a day has gone by
Where you haven’t crossed my mind
If being with you is wrong then I don’t want to be right
I know where I want to go tonight
I can’t seem to quit you now
I wouldn’t even if I knew how
Somewhere in another life I fell in love
I dreamed that we were written in the stars above
Even though I know that you’re no good for me
It didn’t stop me from seeking this so desperately
I wish that you would tell me what to do
All I want is to be next to you
Bring me pleasure and stop my pain
I’m never gonna fall for you again
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Machines With Human Souls Chicago, Illinois
Chicago-based Industrial rock bringing equal measures filth and funk, transcending the status quo for the rest of our
goddamn lives. We are influenced by all your Wax Trax/90s industrial/coldwave favorites such as Sister Machine Gun, KMFDM, Hate Dept., PIG, and Nine Inch Nails with a dash of punk, funk, and electro.
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