"Machines machines machines machines"
"Machines machines machines machines aaah"

It's a machines world, don't tell me I ain't got no soul
When the machines take over
It ain't no place for rock and roll- ha

They tell me I don't care, but deep inside I'm just a man
They freeze me they burn me they squeeze me they stretch me
With smoke-blackened pistons of steel they compress me
But no one, but no one, but no one can wrest me away
Back to humans

"We have no disease, no troubles of mind"
"We are fighting for peace, no regard for the time"
"We never cry, we never retreat"
"We have no conception of love or defeat"

What's that machine noise
It's bytes and megachips for tea
It's that machine boys
With Random Access Memory
Never worry, never mind
Not for money, not for gold

Yeah, it's software, it's hardware, it's heartbeat is time-share
It's midwife's a disk drive, it's sex-life is quantised
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised

Back to humans- back to humans

"Back to machines- machines- machines"
"Machines machines"

Living in a new world, thinking in the past- humans
Living in a new world, how you gonna last- humans
Machine world, it's a machine's world- humans
Living in a new world, thinking in the past- back to humans
Living in a new world, how you gonna last- machine world
It's a machine's world- machine world yeah yeah- "change"

It's a machine world wooh- yeah I'm coming yeah yeah wooh
Back to humans- hey yeah- ha ha haa- back to humans
Back to humans
Living in a new world, how you gonna last
Machine world, it's a machine's world

Cine poate ramane om intr-o lume a masinilor? Intr-o lume automatizata pana la refuz, mai poate fi oare loc pentru suflet ("it's a machine's world, don't tell me I ain't no soul")?

Versurile piesei se constituie intr-o critica se constituie intr-o critica a unei societati in care indivizii sunt redusi la nivelul de masinarii inseriate in campul muncii, sub actiunea unei forte zdrobitoare (ca si in Hammer To Fall). Totul in jur tinde sa devina automatizat, subordonat masinilor si tehnologiei ultraperformante ("it's that machine boys, with Random Access memory").Societatea incearca sa-l limiteze pe om, sa-l dezumanizeze prin automatizare, prin lipsa de gandire si de sentimente ("never worry, never mind", "we have no conception of love or defeat") si prin cuantificarea existentei pana in cele mai marunte detalii ("life is quantised"), ca sa-l incadreze in tipar ("they tell me I don't care", "they freeze me, they burn me, they squeeze me, they stretch me"), dar..."deep inside I'm just a man". Omul rezista refugiindu-se in sferele sufletesti, in muzica ("it ain't no place for rock'n'roll!"). Si nimeni, nimeni, niciodata, nu are sa-i distruga sufletul ("back to humans")!.

Piesa, scrisa in stil hard-rock, are o orchestratie originala, care sugereaza ideea de automatism, de masinalitate, in opozitie cu fragmentul de cantec susurat pe o voce dulce, ca o soapta de speranta a omului strivit de sufocantul univers al masinariilor. Si, daca am vrea sa fim sinceri, oare versurile nu sunt la fel de actuale, chiar dupa 20 de ani (sau poate chiar si mai actuale decat atunci)?

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