This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
I can't live when it lives
It won't live if I die
Machine has no heart to give
Heart it takes could be mine
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Follows me down the river
Shadows me through the sky
A sideways glance in the mirror
Stalemate machine in a tie
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
I fashion will and desire
Always I and I survive
Mercurial mind the fire
Fervorous direction and drive
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Now I see myself clearer
Why time I visualize
I spy device in the mirror
Checkmate watch machine die
It won't live if I die
Machine has no heart to give
Heart it takes could be mine
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Follows me down the river
Shadows me through the sky
A sideways glance in the mirror
Stalemate machine in a tie
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
I fashion will and desire
Always I and I survive
Mercurial mind the fire
Fervorous direction and drive
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Now I see myself clearer
Why time I visualize
I spy device in the mirror
Checkmate watch machine die
Lyrics submitted by jt, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Never The Machine Forever Lyrics as written by Kim A. Thayil
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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It's based on Kim's personal experiences and according to him, "it's about a life-and-death match between an individual and a less specifically defined entity" - KERRANG!, March 16, 1996. The lyrics suggest that the voice in the song is the victor in the end, presumably due to their ambition, creativity, resourcefulness, and heart, all of which the machine lacks.
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No clue what Kim actually meant but I like to interpret it as fighting some unbeatable machine......and WINNING. The machine can be symbolic of whatever you want it to be, and whatever you chose the machine to be YOU CONQUERED.
This is the best song in the wolrd ever ...and that is my generous input to the world.
one of the very few lyrics of kim, and a cryptic one for sure!
great cryptic lyrics. but there's two lines i can't decipher:
Forever means all is not seen Never means forever brings everything
What do you guys think it means?
I feel like "the machine" is sort of the system of modern day living and capitalism. The narrator struggles with being a part of it, and doesn't like being part of it, but is so dependent in the current lifestyle that it's hard to see through the gray area of living your life how you want to live it, but at the same time being influenced by society and modern day, industrialized living.<br /> <br /> The only reason I interpreted it that way, is that I feel the same. There are so many things that drive me nuts and I hate about our society and the corporate mentality, yet there are so many things within that system I am dependent on because I've been influenced and accustomed to it over time. At the same time, that system, or "machine" can't live without people living like that, or something :)
heh whoops, wrong place!
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seems to be about a battle with some kind of killing robot machine...
i dont see this mattering really, but he mentions mercurial (mercury) and Ferriferous (made of iron or yielding iron)
i think this is about the battle u have with yourself over the way u r when you dont wanna be cold like a machine so you fight the machine in you
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