The Man's Machine

This song is 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 grabbed me

And I wasn't aware.

They said, "Is your name Matey?"

I said, "Why sure".

He says, "You're the punk

That I've been waiting for.

You're nicked"

Better 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've won?

Now you're feeble

Nothing on this far-gone son

All these people

They're laughing at the shit I've done

I've sailed the seven seas to catch a breeze and took it back home in a trunk

Met a matador who said it's my 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 boy's got clean

That her father never got his heart

Caught up in the man's machine

Well it seems even if I got away

There's always a part of me willing to stay

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Underground travelling

Overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Maybe one day things'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 be selfish drum

On my journey

I met Ernie

So he spoke like 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's 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

Well she cries all her tears

But with all of her fears

Well she run away

She had a place

Now all they ever see is the fears

Take it as she's seen it

Get away

Well there's always a part of us

Willing to stay

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Underground travelling

Overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Maybe one day things'll get better

So run, run boyo

Chase it to the border, border

Should have also've 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 have also've 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've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Underground travelling

Overcast weather

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Maybe one day things'll get better