Scraping the servers for a shred of the truth Tracing the rot that they fed to the youth Parking lot payoffs and backroom handshakes Counting the bodies and counting mistakes They monitor feeds and they track every click Trying to bury the things that I flick My friends step away like I'm carrying plague While the lines in the mirror grow heavy and vague (Chorus) The machine hits back! Losing my mind on the track! Mania rising, they label me loon Howling my truths to a mocking-bird moon! Consensus is poison, they repeat it for gold While the story they write keeps the whole world cold! (Verse 2) From the loops of the past to the wars in the sand Shadowy contracts signed under the hand Black-budget secrets and off-the-books lies Built to blindfold and paralyze I see right through every script they decreed While they swallow the bullshit and beg for the feed Family turns backward and calls it a break How much of this pressure can one person take? (Chorus) The machine hits back! Losing my mind on the track! Mania rising, they label me loon Howling my truths to a mocking-bird moon! Consensus is poison, they repeat it for gold While the story they write keeps the whole world cold! (Bridge) Reality fracturing, splitting in two! I see the strings, and they know that I do! Rewarded for compliance, punished for sight Screaming alone in the dead of the night! (Guitar Solo / Breakdown) (Chorus) The machine hits back! Losing my mind on the track! Mania rising, they label me loon Howling my truths to a mocking-bird moon! Consensus is poison, they repeat it for gold While the story they write keeps the whole world cold! (Outro) The machine wins... or do I? Buried alive in a manufactured lie. (Can you see it?) (Can you see it?)
