[Intro]
[whispered vocals]
Turn the cogs
Of the moonlightmachine
Grease on the gears
Of your favorite dream
[Verse 1]
Steel heart ticking in a basement sky
Cold glow dripping from the copper pipes
Hands on the dial of another night
Bend back seconds till they liquefy
I feed it pictures from my old life
It feeds me futures I don’t recognize
Silver on the ceiling
Shadows on my spine
Time in a circle
Jaw locked tight
[Chorus]
Moonlightmachine
Spin me slow
Rewind me clean
Moonlightmachine
Print my dreams across the beam
Moonlightmachine
Stretch this hour till it screams
Moonlightmachine
Stop the clock and flood the streets
[Verse 2]
Dust in the vents tastes just like sleep
Codes in the coils
Secrets in the heat
I trade one moment for a thousand nights
Wake up weightless on a foreign tide
Glass face grinning with a tungsten grin
[low vocal register] it knows every place I’ve ever been
Hands off the switch but it still runs
Turning all my maybe into once
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[crescendo]
When the last star blinks
It hums my name
Rewrites the sky
Line by line again
I ask it softly
“what did I lose?”
It answers only
With another moon
[Chorus]