Heart Of The Machine
Today a maching broke
Now normally this isn't so unfixable
Had it been a slight shatter, a crack, or a chip
Then I'd glue it back together in hopes that it hadnt been severed too deeply this time
But today, it has malfunctioned manically, mechanically, and cant be fixed manually
I think it needs surgery
You see, this machine runs this whole factory
And without it, it will be forced to shut down
Some call it a radiator because of all the power-packed heat it sends off
But I call it a generator because of all the power it has over the workers that run this place
Either way...it's broken
And I'm gonna need more than just tools to fix it
I thought it was unbreakable
So I let everybody and his mama play with it
They turned all the random knobs they could find, payed no mind to the damage they were inflicting, insisting that they have complete control over the machine before leaving it behind
Broken, Damaged, and Useless
So accidentally, I found a repairman
Coincidentally, he had all the right tools at just the right price
He worked on it for months, weaving his way through the wiring, searching for the hard drive
At last, he found it
Victorious in his repairwork, he worked the machine overtime
I heard its cries and wails for help but
I was too preoccupied with the sight of that beautiful repairman and the things that he could do that I mistakingly forgot to come to its rescue
Don't let me lie to you, I knew that something was wrong
I was just too busy falling in love to practice being strong
So the machine was used and broken again
The repairman proved himself useless
And left
Left the machine
Left me
Left this factory rendered unliveable and unenterable forever
Now there's a tale that goes along with this empty shell of a machine that gets told around the factory
They say the factory was my body,
The machine was my heart
The workers were my brain cells,
And it was doomed from the start.