We'll take our virtues up in arms
To save ourselves
Tonight I'll fight and friends will stand here
And die with us

Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me

If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine

We'll wear our scars above our arms
And covered up
Should we keep this open ending
Just for us

Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me

If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine

Just take a look at yourself
You see reflections in all of your impurities
The taste, the taste of a burnt tongue

If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine

You mean nothing to me
You mean nothing to me



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I Am the Message Lyrics as written by Charles Robert Simpson Alexander Westaway

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    I believe the chorus is a little less cryptic, as in "if I am the message, then you are the machine", being a metaphor, as in an answering machine on a telephone, and the message that it is storing. So if 'I am the message, and you are the machine", then I have a message to convey, and the person I'm talking to (record company?) has the means to let others hear it. Another idea is that as a message needs the machine to have any relevant purpose, it could just be a metaphor for need for another in a relationship?

    00adamss28on September 05, 2008   Link

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