The Nothing Engine
 
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All lyrics (c) 2002 The Nothing Engine

NOW ADJUSTING

Hello, and welcome to day thirty of my life. Avoiding scrutiny, come sit down if you like. I've got some things to show, like how to hold my breath. I've changed what makes me live, now adjusting does it best.

Hey, wait! I can be real!

Accomodation seemed so cheap, iconoclasm seemed too far. Used to find out for myself, now I ask what seems so dark. Intrinsic need for fraud - don't miss a working mind. Search harder if you like, but I left me far behind.

Please tell me that you're joking. Don't tell me cracks are showing.

TAKE SOME MORE

Workers' social circles cause the circumcision of decision-making skills - abrupt, aparent loss of need to make their voices be heard. Popular consensus causes re-direction and submission of defensive skills allowing actively oppressive views to move in. Step by step, progress is made in cancelling ambitious claims of rendering the company unfit to run and thus employ their work force. Full evacuation of employment without full agreement, but coercion, leads to higher turn-over rates, and it means they're cutting down on voices.

The work force has gone bad - let's just take some more. They're unhappy and sad - let's just take some more.

PICK UP THE LEAGUE

If mathematics holds the answers to questions, we'll carry on just like we all did before. We'll keep on talking in these lead-lined relations, and cast our doubt anf guilt right down to the floor.

Pick up the league again!

POCKET OF RESISTANCE

I'm tired of lies that we choose to hide. From nowhere, to centre, to thoughts complied. The carefully planned execution rites, a chorus of deep, universal sighs.

The more that I taste, the less it tastes. Follow the last one he knows the way. I used to be strong, but there's a hole in my pocket of resistance. I just expired.

Replace! Keep face!

OUT ON A LIMB

Risen, reposed, getting undone, searching the scene for flavouring fun. Absurd you - constantly. Start of the day, back of the line, slowly dig-up what's killing the time. Absurd you - constantly!

I'll find it out, I'll find it out..

Step up the way, air's getting thin. Happier now, and settling in. Absurd you - constantly. Taking no risks, not letting you in. I'd rather be cold than out on a limb. Absurd you - constantly!

(TELE)VISONARY

Take up my eyes every time, channelled thoughts, let it slide. Remote mind, signal bind, infra-red stop sign.

Three colours black, whiter noise. Beacon not to avoid. Finger-tip button choice, talk with more than one voice.

(Tele)visionary - see more than you should.

BRICKS

Keep the peril nice and handy for security - I don't like this, I am like this. Drive into a brick wall and count the bricks ironically - I don't like this, I am like this. They say a way to help you mend is to look for sympathy - I don't like this, I am like this. You turned a corner, did you go around the bend? I think I don't like this, I am like this.

Our sense of balance is way off target, we need to work at a pace we started. Our sense of balance is way off target, self discovery is far less stunted.

CAUTION ENCODE

I want you to know I don't belive it is so. I want you to feel like you're soaked to the bone. A caution encode within the commands that you sing. You write out the rites, and I will help you too.

I'll bring the pedal, you bring the crosss, and I'll show you what is long-lived.

AN X IN THE NAME

There's a man in a suit,but it's not what you think. Got no business with you - push away, push away. They can manage, assume they don't need you. Forcing stories untrue, throwing sticks, throwing stones..

Can't live without it, acting like you found it, can't live without it, an X in the name - a now deal.

To know me is to entertain me.

WATCH THEM FALL

I can't think straight. I cannot wait for daylight to break. Can you believe I came this far with such a headache? Bu watching yo makes me feel better. If you can move to this tune, then it just proves that I cannot depend on you to be a hero, now can I?

Walking tall, thinking small. Why get a life when you have got a mall?

I'll grow the sores, then I'll watch them fall ..tomorrow.

INFLUENCE HAND

Conveyer belt, it's market time! I'd like to show you who's last in line. They win the prizes 'cause they know the score. Better calculations that before.

We are the product of success - at least appearances say it best. On and on producing zero again, like the results of some nothing engine.

All the process is working so well - cut the libs off, condition and sell. Warm and chrome-like, the way that they feel.

There won't be another time to confirm the deal.

PARANOID STATUS

This is the landscape as we've shaped it - dead trees, debris, a last call for release. This is the mass paranoid staus. No need to worry because they're telling you all you need to know.

I'd like to thank you all for this opportunity, and for allowing me to say my piece. And even if you don't understand what I'm talking about, that's never stopped you before.

This is the landscape as we've come to shape it, everything here is so pleasing to the eye. Finish your breakfast, it's you execution. Everything here is so pleasing to the eye.