Ghost in the Machine lyrics

[Verse 1: Sadistik]

I’ve been dancing on the quicksand for one too many moments

Swallowing the sunshine and company I’ve chosen

Is the company of wolves, underneath their clothing

They just hide their sheepish smiles that are sunk beneath the ocean

With the chitty-chitty bang bang, pretty city same pain

Do I? Did he? Witty, will he really let his fangs hang?

Amen, ’cause that statement’s all but obvious

And all I want to know is what it takes to show my godliness

I’m defacing all the monuments

In this lonely desert, there’s no trace of Ozymandias

And I don’t know how many people catch the references

Caught up in the revelry but still they lack the reverence

Of standards like my skeletons or craft the saddest elegance

‘Cause I can sink tsunamis that could probably crack the sediment

And this is just an open, drunken, broken, sunken nothing

Hoping that I’m something when the Reaper comes to sow

Secrets of my soul are simply jagged

Little pieces that’ll finally show the truth if I can match it

In a sequence, and they tell me that my eyes are simply windows to the soul

But my window panes are only pain…here we go

This is where you listen close, anaconda grips the throat

Dancing with the devil and he’s stepping on my mistletoes

I’d give control if you can tell me it’ll be alright

‘Cause nothing ever lives and no one ever really dies

[Hook: Louise Fraser]

I see the past in your eyes

Drift by like rain clouds in the sky

Wondering how you can turn back time

Trying to leave your past behind

The rain that falls on your face

Washing away the tears that trace

I can't see if I’m a sacred place

Hidden in somewhere safe

[Verse 2: Sadistik]

I’m over-pessimistic in this slumbered frame of mind

Even rainbows are just another bank to climb

Another waste of time, that I feel but can’t kiss

I feel like Atlas when the thunder breaks my spine

I’ve spent eleven hours sinking in the mud

And all I’ve done is paint your facial features with my blood

‘Cause I’ve wasted half my life thinking I’m in love

But it was just the side-effects of breathing ether in my lungs (yes)

Man bites dog, gnaws his hands right off y’all

Just can’t fight off all of mankind’s flaws, call

Me atheist, a satanist or anti-god while

I’ll wait for this so place your bets ’til landslide fall off

And I’ll watch…while the innocent shatters

The Phoenix never comes to be risen from ashes

We’re all gone but there isn’t a rapture

And everything you loved was just visions of grandeur

So I go to sleep (sleep), listen inactively

To my heart beat (beat), is it a masterpiece?

Or fool’s gold, is feeling so cheap

There’s more than one way to go to and skin a catastrophe

And actually, when the rose is red and caustic

I’m just feeling like I’m frozen in these old, synthetic topics

Where I’m dealing with the copacetic, open-ended logic

That no one ever dies even though our flesh is tarnished

[Hook: Louise Fraser]

I see the past in your eyes

Drift by like rain clouds in the sky

Wondering how you can turn back time

Trying to leave your past behind

The rain that falls on your face

Washing away the tears that trace

I can't see if I’m a sacred place

Hidden in somewhere safe

[Hook: Louise Fraser]

I see the past in your eyes

Drift by like rain clouds in the sky

Wondering how you can turn back time

Trying to leave your past behind

The rain that falls on your face

Washing away the tears that trace

I can't see if I’m a sacred place

Hidden in somewhere safe