UNRELEASED MACHINE

This was never finished I found the file with no name buried under take thirteen A dead loop in a cold room still asking what it could have been The drums were wrong The bass was late The synths were chewing through the gate Somebody left a marker there that only said not safe I played it once I played it twice I heard my shadow in the splice A little wreck A little prayer A little voltage in the air They left it sleeping in the wires They left it half-alive They called it noise They called it failure They never heard it climb But I did I did Unreleased machine wake up under me All your broken teeth are singing perfectly Unreleased machine you were not a mistake You were waiting for a voice with enough light to make you break If they buried you deep I will pull you through clean I am the blood in the unreleased machine Machine machine I am the blood in the machine There’s a ghost of an old guitar left bleeding on the left side A kick drum like a locked door that never opened right The chorus had no melody just pressure in the ceiling The bridge fell off into the dark and kept on breathing So I cut the rust I kept the scar I drove the noise straight through my heart I tuned the fault I raised the frame I put my mouth against the flame They left it sleeping in the wires They left it half-alive They called it noise They called it failure They never heard it climb But I did I did Unreleased machine wake up under me All your broken teeth are singing perfectly Unreleased machine you were not a mistake You were waiting for a voice with enough light to make you break If they buried you deep I will pull you through clean I am the blood in the unreleased machine Don’t smooth the edge Don’t fix the breath Don’t clean the part that almost died The wound is where the song gets in The crack is where I climb inside Bring back the bad take Bring back the wrong chord Bring back the room that nobody asked for Bring back the voltage Bring back the scream Bring back the thing they were afraid to release Unreleased machine wake up under me All your broken teeth are singing perfectly Unreleased machine you were not a mistake You were waiting for a voice with enough light to make you break If they buried you deep I will pull you through clean I am the blood in the unreleased machine I am the blood I am the blood I am the blood in the machine