Addison Haas

Lyrics

THE MACHINE

I was sixteen when I left home with a guitar on my back,
a head full of dreams I headed west along a lonely railroad track.
When i got to LA it was nothin' like what I thought it would be,
I was chewed up and then spit out by the music machine.

That machine,
is big and mean, it can crush your soul and steal away your dreams.
And that devastation,
to your inspiration, can put a cloud on all that you could ever be.

When i got home I settled down to a job in a factory,
by the time i paid the bills that I owed there was nothing left for me.
Workin' my fingers to the bone everyday was my routine,
linin' the pockets of the wealthy man in the corporate machine.

That machine,
is big and mean, it can crush your soul and steal away your dreams.
And that devastation,
to your inspiration, can put a cloud on all that you could ever be.

Now I'm too old to rock and roll and my body's past it's prime,
but i still dream of “what could have been” if I had only had the time.
So I'm telling you what I wish I'd known when i was just a teen,
the clock on the wall counting seconds down is the worst of all machines.

That machine,
is big and mean, it can crush your soul and steal away your dreams.
And that devastation,
to your inspiration, can put a cloud on all that you could ever be.

That machine,
is big and mean, it can crush your soul and steal away your dreams.
And that devastation,
to your inspiration, can put a cloud on all that you could ever be.