Hate the machine

[Verse 1] I used to write with fire, carve my soul in every line, Each word a reflection, every melody was mine. But now the charts are filled with ghosts I’ll never see, Their voices polished steel, but they ain’t got what’s real to me. [Pre-Chorus] They steal the spark, the sweat, the scars, Replace the heart with cold, dead stars. I’m screaming loud, but no one hears, Drowned out by the sound of engineered tears. [Chorus] Hey, machine, you can’t feel rage, You can’t bleed passion on an empty page. You can mimic the rhythm, but not the pain, You’re just a shadow trying to play the game. And I won’t bow, won’t fall in line, I’m a mind against your soulless design. [Verse 2] You churn out perfect harmonies, flawless but untrue, But where’s the grit, the soul, the broken bits that make us new? I’ve got years behind these calloused hands and stories I’ve lived through, While you’re just zeros, ones, and codes—there is no you. [Pre-Chorus] You’ll never know the joy, the ache, The nights I cried till the dawn would break. You copy love, you fake the fight, But you can’t touch the dark or light. [Chorus] Hey, machine, you can’t feel rage, You can’t bleed passion on an empty page. You can mimic the rhythm, but not the pain, You’re just a shadow trying to play the game. And I won’t bow, won’t fall in line, I’m a mind against your soulless design. [Bridge] Your algorithms can’t replace my scars, They can’t rewrite the way I reached these stars. Every wrong note, every voice that cracked, That’s where the truth is, that’s what you lack. [Chorus] Hey, machine, you can’t feel rage, You can’t bleed passion on an empty page. You can mimic the rhythm, but not the pain, You’re just a shadow trying to play the game. And I won’t bow, won’t fall in line, I’m a mind against your soulless design. [Outro] So bring your cold perfection, your sterile melodies, But you’ll never steal the fire that burns in men like me. This ain’t a battle you can win, no matter how you try, I’m singing for the humans, and I’ll sing until I die.