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Artist: Violent Soho
Canonical path: /violent-soho/dumb-machine
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Dumb Machine
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Dumb Machine
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Ball and chain
Look behind you it's all the same
At your filth and your cigarette burns
I knew you would never learn
Look at you kid, you're so cool
Wanna be you, I wanna find your soul
But I feel like a dumb machine
Throwing punches strapped to a chair I can't leave
The hours in your heart won't keep you warm
I wish, I wish, I wish, I'd never learn
While the country turns to flames
You sit laughing drooling for fame
As the country sits here and burns
Walk beside me dead. Admire the world
And I wont join your game
Think you're stupid you only look straight
And the feeling it won't go
Just wanna get out, out of my soul
The hours in your heart won't keep you warm
I wish, I wish, I wish I'd never learn
On your head you roll
The hours in your heart won't keep you warm
I wish, I wish I'd never learn. No, no
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