My Machine

if you had a machine that could make you into anything you wanted to be, like anything, what would you be?

let's see

i want to be the queen no i want to be 19 wait no i wanna be that horrible thing i saw last night in my dream oh i know! i want to be a supermodel she's european

a lean sex fiend oh thank god i can finally fit in those dumb jeans

poof then it was me

i was her

I waited for something fabulous to occur

somethin/ marvelous and absurd

i waited there was nothing

but i was something

gorgeous crazy wealth and I could always reach the top of the supermarket shelf

all of a sudden I was no longer the model or myself

i must have thought about being a stupid box of cereal up on that stupid shelf

boring wondered whether i would wait forever

I guess I was a brand that wasn't adequately advertised on tv ever

but it got better

apparently a parent and a child threw me in a cart

it was hard I was smothered covered by a world of pop tarts

and a part of the newspaper that scared me, i think it was the pop charts

and i wish i was a cereal that..that. wasn't so smart

do you want to step inside my machine?

we all got home and they put me in the fridge

damn why didnt they keep their cereal out so I could at least see where they lived

but i could hear them and it seemed like they were happy

when the kid wasn't napping she was always laughing

i felt jumpy my bran was crackling

i was grabbed along with the milk put in a bowl

it was dark /a black hole / must have been the kid's mouth/ i dont know

and in i went

down the throat past the tongue by her heart by her lungs

and i could see she might be dying young

so i tried to patch it up with an old piece of gum that was there

but the damage was done disease had won it wasn't fair

but I wasn't gonna be the one that lost her

i wasn't a doctor

and i wasn't

a name on the list of somebodys roster

why bother

and by that time i was already out the other end

in the toilet with milk

you know my old friend from the fridge from way back when and then

we got sucked down into the pipes

what a crappy life

machine that's really not right

do you want to step inside my machine?

I cant stand it i said machine why are we here?

and it paused and said 'to play video games and drink beer'

that's weird you're subversive I thought we had a deeper purpose underneath the surface why do so many of us feel worthless

the machine said don't ask me ask your magazines

people and teen and loads of shit people dont need i started to bleed

and said just make me into bandaid the size of a giant pancake

wrap me around the whole world to heal the heartache

and if anyone's hungry well

they could just eat me or I'll be a peace treaty and no one could ever defeat me

it said chill out girl remember being on the shelf

i seem to remember you kind of just / wanted to be yourself

no. i wanted someone to pick me, to love me, to be the greatest brand

i dont understand i was just trying to comprehend man

oh you wanted the grand scheme the big plan the answer aha well here it is -

and then it turned off and that was it

because you see the machine

never really did exist

do you want to step inside my machine?

would you be a doctor

would you be a rocker

would you be a parka keepin someone warm in a lock up

would you be a marker

that signed the constitution would you start a revolution or just play some pro soccer

how about a stalker

if you were a father

would you be good at all or would you even bother

be a beautiful girl or someone that could call her

would you be a good talker

stealth bomber

what about osama

just to see what it feels like

cuz we all love to live in drama

be a big movie star

fancy ass houses big car

doin lots of drugs fuckin up an break laws

be a fat man plumbers butt hangin out the drawers

would you fight for a cause

chew on people like jaws

instigate wars push the button

would you be something

or middle class average with

ok marriage

1.3 baby carriage

2 cars garage

would you be president

would you be american

would you be be better than everyone else as a representative

would you be a monkey

would you feel lucky

would you be a big dick always fucking

would you be a pumpkin

would it be your brain inside a vegetable

or would you feel nothing

would you manage or would you suffer

would you be a lover

be a fighter

or would you just be alright

could you just be alright

and if all this could come true

would you be ready

would I be ready if I was you?