I Want To Be A Machine Lyrics - The Island Years - Ultravox

I found the bones of all your ghosts 

Locked in the wishing well 

While bird song 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!