I found the bones of all your ghosts

Locked in the wishing well

While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets

I slumbered in my shell



In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine

Kissed me on my eyes

I rose and left the fire-ladies

Glowing lonely in the night

With all the pornographers

Burning torches beneath the sea



Chorus:



I want to be a machine

I want to be a machine

I want to be a machine

I want to be a machine



I stole a cathode face from newscasts

And a crumbling fugue of songs

From the reservoir of video souls

In the lakes beneath my tongue

In flesh of ash and silent movies

I walked at boulevards again

A nebula of unfinished creatures

From the lifetimes of my friends

I hope your innocence has depraved me



(Chorus)



Broadcast me, scrambled clean

Or free me from this flesh

Let the armchair cannibals take their fill

In every cell across wilderness

We'll trip such a strangled tango

We'll waltz a wonderland affair

Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow

Leave all emotion dying there

In the star cold beyond all of your dreams



(Chorus)



Ah!