Part B5: The Machine’s Teeth (V6)

[General prompt: Industrial heavy metal, mechanical tempo with slowdowns. Sound of metal and metronome. Vocals almost spoken then explosive. Very aggressive guitar solo.] [Verse 1 – Luddite - Rhythm like a loom, then a crash] Ned Ludd is a name we all can wear My children’s fingers are not for your gear (One broken frame, a thousand sparks) [Heavy, grinding, with choir] (Chorus The machine eats flesh – we eat the chain!) The shuttle flies, but it flies in vain We are not cogs, we are not thread We are the hand that leaves you dead [Guitar solo – industrial noise, then melodic, then noise again] [Verse 2 – Canut - Slower, like a silk ribbon, then rage] In Lyon, we wove the sky for the rich But our own ribs were a starving stitch (Black flag on the Croix-Rousse!) [Heavy, grinding, with choir] (Chorus The machine eats flesh – we eat the chain!) The shuttle flies, but it flies in vain We are not cogs, we are not thread We are the hand that leaves you dead (Bridge – a cappella choir) (We worked the dark, we saw no sun...) [Outro - Single hammer hitting anvil, then silence] ...They called us backward. We called us men.