[Intro — Clean Guitar / Feedback]
Static in the bloodstream
Television rain
Everybody looks alive
Everybody feels the same
[Verse 1]
Plastic saints on silver screens
Selling us synthetic dreams
Pretty mouths and vacant eyes
Feed the truth another lie
I taste the signal in the air
A thousand voices going nowhere
We built a heaven out of noise
Then drowned beneath our favorite toys
[Pre-Chorus]
And I don’t know
What we’re becoming
I don’t know
If anybody feels it coming
[Chorus — Heavy Guitars]
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Beautiful and barely breathing
Everything is glowing
Nothing has a meaning
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Connected but completely alone
Everybody wants the whole world
Nobody wants to go home
[Verse 2]
Digital blood, electric skin
Tell me where the human ends
Another face, another name
Everybody wants their fifteen frames
Buy your love
Sell your pain
Wash your conscience down the drain
Smile for strangers
Hide the scars
We don’t know who we really are
[Pre-Chorus]
And I can feel
Something disappearing
Underneath
Everything we’re hearing
[Chorus]
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Beautiful and barely breathing
Everything is glowing
Nothing has a meaning
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Connected but completely alone
Everybody wants the whole world
Nobody wants to go home
[Instrumental Break — Distorted Guitar / Feedback]
[Verse 3 — Quieter]
Father works until he’s gone
Mother keeps the TV on
Children learn to swipe before
They ever run across the floor
Dinner’s cold
The room is blue
Four people with nothing to do
Except disappear into their hands
While loneliness makes other plans
[Build]
More money
More noise
More beautiful disposable toys
More followers
More fame
More strangers screaming out your name
More houses
More cars
More ways to hide exactly who we are
Tell me—
When did enough stop being enough?
[Chorus — Explosive]
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Beautiful and barely breathing
Everything is glowing
Nothing has a meaning
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Connected but completely alone
Everybody wants the whole world
Nobody wants to go home
[Bridge — Half-Time / Heavy]
Cut the wire
Kill the feed
Tell me what you really need
Kill the lights
Close your eyes
See what’s left without disguise
No advertisements
No applause
No algorithms telling us
What to love
What to hate
What to buy
Who to blame
[Breakdown]
Maybe I don’t need
Another goddamn thing
Maybe I just need
To feel something
REAL.
[Guitar Explosion]
[Final Chorus]
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Rusting underneath the chrome
Seven billion people talking
Seven billion people alone
WE ARE THE HOLLOW MACHINE
Still pretending we’re alive
We conquered everything around us
While something human died inside
And everybody keeps on running
Toward another flashing light
While the things that really mattered
Disappear into the night
[Outro — Clean Guitar]
Static in the bloodstream
Silence in the veins
Everybody looks alive
But nobody feels the same