The Secret Machines Album

The open way’s too dangerous
Listen close, they’re watching us
One more time you’re losing us
Hold still now they’re shooting us
First wave down
I wonder when they’re coming back
First wave down

Like leaves from modern trees
Rest on walls like these

I wonder what you’re waiting for
I wonder what you’re working for
I wonder what you’re living for
I wonder what you’re dying for
First wave down
I wonder when they’re coming back
First wave intact

Like leaves from modern trees
Rest on walls like these
The rest is theft

The walls don’t move, don’t change
Does it make you feel ashamed?
No dreams, no curse
Could we make things even worse?
Don’t mean it’s right
But it makes you see the light

did you get your heartache and your
head rush confused
have you been sleeping late cause
you've been abused
are you alone
does it feel like those around want
you to die
are you alive

did you grab your sleeping bag when
you hit the floor
have you been feeling bad czuse
you've been a bore
oh youre just lonely
and it feels like those around want
you to die
but you're alive

was it loneliness that kept you or
baby did you think it a curse
were you grateful for the pleasure
or baby do you think this is worse

and it feel like those around want
you to die
sometimes does it feel like just crying
youre still in love with me and you
dont know why

The leaves are gone
There’s ice on the river
Hold my hand to your heart and
breathe
Together, we won’t make a sound
As we part for the winter
Of my life
‘Til it ends
‘Til this stops, and then?
Love?
We’ll see
While we’re left to grieve

cellophane flowers never happened
for me
been sleeping the day off
watching the night fall
covering nowhere
filling my time share

there's a woman in the mirror in a
firey state
as she motions to me I start turning
away
she's lifting her dress up
trying to keep up

oh you'd be surprised
how we race

while our lives
erased

another alone on an everyday night
thinking the morning looking for
alright
warming the blood flow
with poison I dont know why

maybe the rain stops following me
dripping the colors
running the daylight
over the cloud burst
hoping they don't burst

right before my eyes
erased

our lives
erased

we know we're lost we're lost we're
nowhere now
we know we're lost we're lost we're
nowhere now
now we know we're lost and
nowhere now

maybe the rain will stop following me
with millions of colors reflected in
daylight
right on the kickdrum
turning the sound up

another alone on an everyday night
I think in the morning I think I'll be
alright
watching the blood flow
no wonder I dont know why

theres a woman in the mirror in a
firey state
she motions to me I start pulling
away
she's lifting her dress up
all the way up

oh don't look surprised
erased

our lives
erased

our lives
erased

Cultivating sounds
For all the mothers who come near
to find out

Calling pulse bombs, a response

With cotton in their ears
And goodbye kisses
For the ones in the ground

Collecting fallout from the blast

The road leads where it’s led
While all the darlings cover earth
With bare hands
They’re blowing all the other kids
away

We communicate by semaphore
No language, we’re got flags of our
own

The road leads where it’s led
The darlings cover earth with their
hands
They’re blowing all the other kids
away

Angels stole the show
The roaring seraph, singing thunder
Called the mother’s children home

Blowing all the other kids away

We won’t be moved
We can see right through
All of your charms
Your clever disguise
Uncertainty fails
As heaven surrounds you

Blowing all the other kids away

Hold on!
The recent exchange
Is just another face arranged
By the knife edge of time
And just another waste of time

I wonder
Was that the pharaoh’s daughter
Or the wealth I still remember?

We were dressed in uniforms left
over from the war
A tourniquet, an iron vest, our
emblem was a star
The younger ones looked frightened
Left unguarded by the clouds
While sons of fire with trembling
hands
Burned heroes to the ground

I wonder
Was that the famous daughter
Of the well-heeled revolving oh-so-
fine?
While we were building caskets
For boys in leather jackets

The girl’s quite familiar

You are chains
When you are chained
With a chain
With an iron ring
Bound to a rock
On which you stand
So large
You can’t see from its surface
Covered in atmosphere dust
Blinded by wonder and lust
And you never noticed your chains

Well, neither had I
I knew I had crashed here
I never knew why
‘Til somebody told me
I was too high to leave
I fell to the floor
And crawled back asleep
‘Til early this morning
Turned following evening
If you hadn’t come here when you
did
I might still believe
I was never in chains

Somewhere there’s a record of your
whereabouts
Everywhere you go you leave a
trace
You’re curled up under the light
With shadows of the fallen
And everyone you’ve known
That’s been replaced
But the light’s on
And you’re waiting for the signal
The light’s on
The light’s your place to hide
The light’s on
You don’t know just who your friends
are
The light’s on
And its light you’ll never know
Hanging from the rings around your
finger
Hiding from the hammer holding fist
The light’s on

(An) ageing eyesore
Nearly nowhere
Found, unearthed
A moment burst with all of us
Reflecting dust from the oh most
high
As morning light bled
Burned out the daylight
Over glass white plain
And just as I turned
It thrust its softly worn
The newly born
In the hardly there

Who rests in dust?
Who moves in air?

Swollen nowhere breathes, laughs
Don’t you see?

All this time
All this space
All these words