Intro (metal clanging, welding sparks, distant thunder) Yeah… Fire it up. If it explodes, it explodes. ⸻ Verse 1 I’m here draggin’ this trash cart through the scrapyard Lookin’ to match parts with a blowed-up scratch heart Half drunk mechanic with a map made of scars Diggin’ through the wreckage underneath the railroad yards I spark in the dark like my name was Tony Stark In an iron-man suit I made outta your car I’m an old dirty bastard, a patchwork disaster I remastered your old tractor to an arc-beam caster Some small traction is all of what I’m after Nothing’ll fell you faster Than my rudimentary black-track tachyon blasters ⸻ Pre-Chorus Black smoke pouring out the gasoline Cold sparks lighting up the whole street scene Half man Half rust Half man Half rust Half man, half rusted-out war machine ⸻ Chorus WAR MACHINE Built from the wreckage and the broken things WAR MACHINE Heart still ticking when the metal screams WAR MACHINE Black smoke rising from the gasoline WAR MACHINE Half man, half rusted-out war machine ⸻ Verse 2 I’m a flaming asshole when askin’ for favors The Baskin-Robbins of death serve you up in thirty-five flavors Gravity don’t matter me And flattery gets you all splattery Got gats for every Saturday ’Tween the Fourth of July and February sixteenth Best kept secret and left unseen I may be a walking trash fire through a stormy ocean dream But I’ve got the Eye of Sauron restructured into a tractor beam Chrome-plated nightmares pullin’ up the block Whole town nervous when they hear the generators cough You can call it junk I call it evolution Every bad decision somehow helped improve it ⸻ Pre-Chorus Black smoke pouring out the gasoline Cold sparks lighting up the whole street scene Half man Half rust Half man Half rust Half man, half rusted-out war machine ⸻ Chorus WAR MACHINE Built from the wreckage and the broken things WAR MACHINE Heart still ticking when the metal screams WAR MACHINE Black smoke rising from the gasoline WAR MACHINE Half man, half rusted-out war machine ⸻ (Instrumental Breakdown) Huge guitar riff Moog synth answers Guitar riff gets heavier Industrial drums enter Crowd chanting WAR MACHINE! WAR MACHINE! WAR MACHINE! WAR MACHINE! ⸻ Bridge Every little king kept demandin’ I should bow Tryna map my failures but they don’t know me now Every crack and dent became another part Every wreck I dragged home gave a dead thing a spark Then the whole world froze and the sky went stark The wires all screamed and the engines wouldn’t start They were waitin’ for the moment that I’d finally fall apart ⸻ Final Verse But I built myself from wreckage From rust and shattered dreams From every busted promise And every failed machine You can keep your shiny heroes And your castles in the stars I got thunder in my bloodstream And a scrapyard in my heart ⸻ (Final Bridge Hit) Every little king kept demandin’ I should bow Tryna map my failures but they don’t know me now Then the whole world froze and the sky went stark So instead I stood up and bent the motherfucking dark ⸻ Final Chorus WAR MACHINE Built from the wreckage and the broken things WAR MACHINE Heart still ticking when the metal screams WAR MACHINE Black smoke rising from the gasoline WAR MACHINE Half man, half rusted-out war machine WAR MACHINE Built from the wreckage and the broken things WAR MACHINE Heart still ticking when the metal screams ⸻ Outro (distorted guitar sustaining) (Moog drone) (welding sparks) WAR MACHINE… WAR MACHINE… (engine finally starts) (cut to silence)
