Shaking On A String
[Verse 1]
He
Wakes up
A machine
Starting up
He
Stands up
Exhausted from his dreams
Broken up
Can't
Start up
A world with normal things
Meaning nothing
He
Wakes up
Coiled like a spring
Twisted up
[Bridge]
And he cannot
Attract attention
’Cause it will leave
Him too wound up
And that
Kind of frustration
Is too much
It's too much
[Verse 2]
So look
Don't touch
Look at the machine
Burning up
So
Distraught
He’s shaking on a string
Breaking up
But who's
Pulling on the strings?
Why make a machine
Designed for nothing?
Yeah, why
Start up a machine?
Tell it what it needs
And send it down a dead-end road?
[Outro]
Send it down a dead-end road?
Send it down a dead-end road?
Send it down a dead-end road?