The Man's Machine

This song's one of our first songs

Off the new album

It's about punks, skins, straights

I was walking along the street

Minding my own affair

Suddenly two policemen grab me

And I wasn't aware

They said, is your name Menti?

I said, why sure

He says, you're the punk that I've been waiting for

You're nicked

Clatter of the devil you know

Confess I guess I was the lesser of the two evils

Convalesce about the stress the test caused

Had me up and on the board

Now I'm chairman of the board

I'm coming back for sequels

Do you ever really think you won?

Now you're feeble

Nothing on this far-gone son

All his people

They're laughing at the shit I done

Sailed the seven seas to catch a breeze

And took it back home in a trunk

Met a matador who said his wild woman is more

Terrifying than any red bull that he saw

Set a sail, set a rail

Met them Kings and Queens

There's so many trust

Just the amphetamines

Well, her dream would've been

That the boys got clean

That her father never got his heart

Caught up in the man's machine

The way it seems even if I go away

There's always a part of me willing to stay

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Underground traveling, overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Maybe one day thing's'll get better

Check, check, check, check

1, 2, 3, kick

I met gods and monsters

Women from Wisconsin

Swimming in linen with another that's not their partner

Chicago the selfish drum

On my journey I met Ernie

So he spoke to Al Capone, got drunk

I'm a lover, I'm a brother, my son

I'm a traitor and I'm on the run

Watch 'em come

As she said while she driving in her car

Getting drunker than the bar

She been smacking hard shoulders

Since before she's legal

I'm a dragnet

Right on through the city of sin

It's the hard done bastards taking it in

Well, I see what I say

Save it on the way

They can't sit bawling but they're bawling away

While she's crying for their tears

But with all her fears

Well she run away, she had a place

Now we'll never see the fears

Take it as she seen it get away

Well, there's always a part of us that's willing to stay

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Underground traveling, overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Maybe one day thing's'll get better

So run run boyo

Chase it to the border, border

Should've also told her I was cannon fodder

Would've if I could've screamed

To her shout and holler

Then I could've saved the girl from the Man's Machine

Run boyo

Chase it to the border, border

Should've also told her I was cannon fodder

Would've if I could've screamed

To her shout and holler

Then I could've saved the girl from the Man's Machine

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Underground traveling, overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

All we got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete, and gravel

Maybe one day thing's'll get better