The Mechanical Soul - Inspired By 'Clockwork Orange'

[The Mechanical Soul] [ Verse 1: Male Vocals ] Four boys sip the milk with the chemical sting While evening bells start their cold, heavy ring They walk through the shadows where cold secrets hide With a hollow-eyed hunger they carry inside [ Pre-Chorus 1: Female Vocals ] The balance is tilting, the rhythm is fast The fever of power was never meant to last [ Chorus 1: Male and Female Duet ] When power is stripped and the spirit is bound There's no way to stand on this hollowed-out ground The silence is heavy where choices once grew The cost of the peace is the death of the true [ Verse 2: Male Vocals ] They break through the window and shatter the peace Till siren-lights signal the sudden release The silver-haired woman is left on the floor As law pulls the lock on the heavy iron door [ Pre-Chorus 2: Female Vocals ] The cage is constructed with needles and light To wash away every dark impulse of night [ Chorus 2: Male and Female Duet ] A puppet is dancing on strings made of lead While fire of the spirit is legally dead To force a direction is only a lie When the will is the first thing we're willing to buy [ Bridge 1: Male and Female Duet ] Metal clips hold the lids till the vision is blurred And the Ninth is the only symphony heard The serum turns music to poison and bile The screen keeps on flickering mile after mile [ Verse 3: Female Vocals ] He walks through the rain where the pavement is grey But wolves of the past are now blocking the way The writer is waiting with blood on his mind For the monster who left all his mercy behind [ Pre-Chorus 3: Male Vocals ] The predator stumbles, the target is clear The sound of the music brings nothing but fear [ Chorus 3: Male and Female Duet ] The world is a garden of iron and thorn The right to be human is jagged and worn It isn't a virtue if hands are tied tight In walls that we built in the middle of night [ Bridge 2: Male and Female Duet ] The gears are all turning but nothing is real When the mind is forbidden to actually feel Safety is bought at a terrible price Constructing a saint from a mountain of vice [ Verse 4: Male Vocals ] The friend wears a badge and a uniform blue He's doing exactly what he used to do He reaches to strike but his stomach turns cold The script of the struggle is strictly controlled [ Pre-Chorus 4: Female Vocals ] The cycle is ending right back where it starts With medicine made for the breaking of hearts [ Final Chorus: Male and Female Duet ] Let weight of the silence be all that we know Where seeds of a hollowed-out goodness will grow We traded the struggle for shackles and sleep And the harvest is more than we're able to keep [ Outro: Male and Female Duet ] A man is a clockwork thing Lost are the songs that he once used to sing A shell in the light and a ghost in the rain Bound by the sickness and cured by the pain