i want to be a machine

Singer:ultravox

i found the bones of all your ghosts

locked in the wishing well

while birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets

i slumbered in my shell

im 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

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 that boulevard again

a nebula of unfinished creatures

from the lifetimes of my friends

i howled your innocence has depraved me

i want to be a machine

i want to be a machine

i want to be a machine

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 tides tomorrow

leave all emotion dying there

in the star cold

beyond all of your dreams

i want to be a machine

i want to be a machine

i want to be a machine

ah!