Warm Machine

this song is about sex lol

"Warm Machine is a savior. Sometimes you want a chariot, a way out. 'I memorize the basics' is the opening line and that's just an attempt to operate in the standard ways so you don't step out of line b/c you fear how you are. But sometimes it's difficult to fit in, and you want to escape from a certain situation you've gotten yourself in. You just wish something could come and lift you away and make you free." - as quoted by Gavin Rossdale

i think this song is pretty straightforward underneath the metaphors.

"warm machine" - human being

"i memorize the basics" - learning how to live, learning how to be a human

"making strange faces - 1000 miles to go " - complaining about life because there is so much left to live of it..

"this is the night, this is the sound" - the night and sound of death

"gravitate spacewards" - gravity opposes the movement into space.. similarly an ending opposes movement of motion..

Also -

Lisa-Claire Sanwall from San Francisco: Gavin, you're my favorite rock star because you write really powerful music and have a compel-ling and gorgeous voice! The lyrics of all of your songs read like sublime poetry, and I was wondering if you may have any poetic influences, and what inspired you to write your newest single from The Science of Things, Warm Machine?

GR: "Warm Machine" is sort of my stream of consciousness song. It's a song about trying to fit in and changing body shape to try to be part of anyone. I like Charles Bukowski because he's edgy. I'm not smart enough to know "proper, real" poets. I love Ginsberg, I love the French poets -- Baudelaire, Rambaud. I love Patti Smith.

I picture a guy lying tied to the railroad tracks, right when a train is coming, singing this song. Kinda creepy.

umm.. those lyrics are wrong in the first part of the song.. it goes:

I memorize the basics Making strange faces Tread slowly for I know There's a thousand miles to go Without blinking.

o, one more thing, ya know how when you see lightening, theres light and then sound, then nothing else? i think that;s the illustration that is trying to be made with life.

AGENT SMITH IS A WARM MACHINE! LOLOOLOL!!1 it's so about him

This song is really cool, I like it a lot. "Gravitate spacewards.....ever left," this lyric is about trying to make yourself satisfied, even when your life sucks and u have nothing to do but just chill in yur basement, just trying to find happiness. "If we never know, we can only feel," I love this lyric it's so true and deep. Then, "cos I feel alright," and everything cuts out accept the guitar...... just so powerful. OUTSTANDING SONG!

This song is about heroin.