Machina II / Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

Soul power

Though I need it - soul power
Got to have it - soul power
Though we want it - soul power
Got to have it - soul power
Give it to me - soul power
How you need it - soul power
Though I need it - soul power
Got to have it - soul power

I want to get under your skin
If I get there, I've got to, got to win

Soul power, soul power
Soul power, soul power

Then you'll know where I'm coming from
I'm on the case, you can't escape soul power

Though we need it - soul power
Got to have it - soul power
Though we want it - soul power
Got to have it - soul power

Love me tender
And love me slow
If that don't get it
Come back for more
Soul power, soul power
Soul power, soul power

Though we need it
(though we need it - soul power)
Got to have it
(gotta reach it - soul power)
'cause though you want it
(though you reach it - soul power)
I gotta have it
(gotta reach it - soul power)
Give it to me - soul power
(gotta reach it - soul power)
Though we need it - soul power
(gotta reach it - soul power)
Yeah, we need it - soul power
(gotta reach it - soul power)
Got to have it - soul power
(gotta reach it - soul power)

What we want
What we're missin'
What we need
We need only yes and yeah

Soul power, soul power
Soul power, yeah, soul power

Soul power (soul power)
Soul power (soul power)
Soul power (soul power)
Soul power (soul power)
Soul power

we'll wander off through the dead of night
'cause wastelands of shattered souls
warm by the firelight
appear into the darkness alone
as the indian summer of my remembrance
settles on my bones
cracked and weary
i ask for direction home
home
let the words spill from my mouth
love
love is everything i want
i'm one of many more to come
love
love is everything i want
crossroads outside of town
the heartbroken faces charred
the city lights so far and dull
turning left and now it's time
with an urgen wind upon my rolling heels
to carry me along
my face so gashed i turn to ruins passed and home
home
let the words spill from my mouth
love
love is everything i want
i'm one of many more to come
love
love is everything i want
we'll wander through the dead of night
past terrors and broken homes
wipe the sleep from your eyes
of riverbanks and catacombs
sleeping to the [?]
always lived this life alone
lay down beneath the law
cry out, i know it's time
love is everything i want
love is everything i want
love is everything i want
love is everything i want

you can hear the baby bones
crack beneath her wheels
tears of avalon
streak silent down her shield
high crimes and misdemeanors
unfortunate attacks
will leave you standing nameless
while she's turning black

vanity stands naked at my door
vanity cries, why?

eleanor, you've lost me
in a haze of wine and cocaine
gone out and cost me
everything i blame
broadcast in tv detail
to call their own stories
as i try to recapture
our best in former glories

vanity stands naked at my door
vanity cries, why?
vanity wants everything and more
vanity must die

she swears she'll turn around
turn around for good
she swears she'll turn around
turn around for sure
you know you'll run around
run around for her
you know you want to know so pure

ease on that dirt road
you've still a ways to go
soak in sights and city lights
while you still can borrow
cursed fall will find you
and bring a memory
the ghost of her surrender
with the kiss of anarchy

she's naked at my door
vanity cries, why?
vanity wants everything and more
vanity must die
die

fall into the century on a supersonic cross
blessed she in aching silence, eternal loss
calling out i won't surrender a locket of her hair
sympathize her pious pleasures, go down the stairs
into the dark again
to feel alive again, and wait for

real love
or is it me you're after
is it time
'cause it's now or never
real love
real love forever
real love

born of the ball and chain
into a world sustained with sorrow

real love
a real touch we speak in
is it ours
or is it what we're seekin'
real love

in the eyes, behold and you'll find the 21st century
you detonate her will and her widowed speech
buried in the backyard shadow, the rusty coffee tin
that held her mother's first kiss in a nameless dream
fall down the stairs again
to feel alive against tomorrow

real love
or is it me you're after
is it time
'cause it's now or never
real love
real love forever
is it love
or just yours to treasure
real love
real love
real love

we never listen
real love will listen
and tell her of a fortune
real love is riches
scratch through the changes
real love is nameless
so tired and hopeless

real love is painless
nobody mentions
we ever move to collect
the solar questions
demon scorn should not relax
the laws of gravity

real love

innocence
innocence finds you there
innocence
innocence doesn't care
any way you choose
the sun, and the sun
i choose

hold me now
i won't let go
innocence
innocence lets you go
innocence
innocence holds you down
any way
any way that you want

and you will be there
with the sun
and you say you don't care
any way
any way that you want
in the love
in the love, we're unsung
it's any way
any way that you want
hold it in
innocence in your arms

innocence
innocence holds you there
innocence
innocence doesn't care
innocence
innocence lets you dream
innocence

Midnight people
Rushing for a downtown train
Watching and wasting away

Their hearts beat free
Cool frequency
And i don't know what it is

I'm gonna run the slow dawn
Seeking sigh, oh so faint
I'm gonna run the slow dawn awake

It's blessed undone
The songbirds all around
And i'm not sure what it is
But i'm sure that i could give it
awake the slow dawn

Slow dawn moves by my side
Teach your silent sleep
Slow dawn

The midnight people
Washing down here, wasting way
They're gonna run the slow dawn awake
The slow dawn awake
The slow dawn awake
The slow dawn awake

speed kills, but beauty lives forever
speed thrills, but beauty knows your name
i fell ill inside eternal winter, 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 thru days 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 pray
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer is gone
long gone, gone
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

last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer is gone

long run the silent horses
soft cry the shellshock houses
wring dry the salty tears
of sailors and their lovers

bring forth the silent movies
kiss all the twilight crime
bleach blonde the high wire groupies
sucking up their time

lungs crack the vapors anxious
drain out the fleeing sources
sits through the sunday speeches
delivered out in thin air

rain rusts the creaking masses
wind blows the temples down
blood fills the exit tunnels
streaking out of town

it's about time
it's about drawing near
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears

unleash the armageddon
draw down the hungry prayer
kneeling for the final verdict
judges draw you near

let fly your model armies
let fly the locust cry
uncork the hidden forces
amassing to a lie

it's about time
it's about you here
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears

i need time
too find your soul
too find your lie
blue skies bring tears
until i go blind

shake loose the huddled masses
spit on the urgent armies
cracked tooth the fading roses
frozen since your burn

fire all your dead tree soldiers
shoot down these skeletal bells
i don't know means to crisis
that doesn't go through hell

blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears

if i were alive
if i were real
would you survive
what would you feel, now

heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine

if i were dead
would my records sell
could you ever tell
or is it just as well

heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine

could you long to love
could you want to see
coming down below
coming down for me

will you write my songs
will you shake the hands
could you understand
it's not yours to keep

heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine

heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal, heavy metal machine
heavy metal

ya gotta understand.
ya gotta understand.
it's just a fact that ya must attack.
gotta get it while you can.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.
ya, we think you understand.
ya, it's just a master plan.
ya, we're just coming down for you.

my baby has got three eyes.
my baby has got three eyes.
she hold her hands behind her back.
she's gotta big suprise.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

ya, we know you understand.
ya, it's just a master plan.
no, we're coming down for you.
ya, we'll party down.
ya, we're coming to your town.
ya, we're are an american band for you.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

ya gotta understand.
ya gotta understand.
it's just a fact that ya must attack.
gotta get it while you can.

everybody's business is everybodys' business.
everybody's business is everybodys' business.
everybody's business is everybodys' business.

ya gotta understand.
ya gotta understand.
it's just a fact that ya must attack.
gotta get it while you can.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.
ya, we hope you understand.
ya, it's just a master plan.
ya, we're just coming down for you.

my baby's got three eyes.
my baby's got three eyes.
she hold her hands behind her back.
she's got a big suprise.

Well everyone's gonna be a big star.
Everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
Everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

ya, we know you understand.
ya, it's just a master plan.
no, we're coming down for you.
ya, we'll party down.
ya, we're coming to your town.
ya, we're are an american band for you.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

well everyone's gonna be a big star.
everyone's gonna drive a fast car.
everyone's gonna be in charge.
'cause everybody's business is everybodys' business.

ya gotta understand.
ya gotta understand.
it's just a fact that ya must attack.
gotta get it while you can.

everybody's business is everybodys' business.
everybody's business is everybodys' business.
everybody's business is everybodys' business.

away to the side you move your head
gravity fingers dig in your back
the strangest man won't let you breathe
rocking on you in a movie scene
his words fill your mouth
his guests bleed sick
devoid of touch
he lets out to the streets where you were raised
sittin' home waiting for the coming age
you had to wait your turn
you had to wait your turn
wake up early, wash up late
satellites connect you to your hate
your patience grows but your skin is thin
the pager signals they're coming in
through the hole in the wall
you left a hole in the wall
here's to the atom bomb
may everyone find a way to get on
[?] seven is all you seek
in the same old re-run week after week
their faces make you want to kill
their little piece of heaven singing on the window sill
no lights can turn you on
pixelate the night
feed in the words
of your eyes on the streets where you were born
sittin' home waiting for the coming dawn
you're the hole in the wall
you left a hole in the wall