The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture Lyrics

Lyric discussion by coprophagus 

Cover art for The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture lyrics by Meshuggah

the song is about the everyday life. How we stare in our daily ruteen.

"A sustained static gaze, oblivious to surroundings. Empty, strained, unmoving eyes; Introverted, paralyzed"

the disability to see or feel more then the common reality is inflicting a overload in the sistem of consciousness end subconsciousness.

"I sense; The facilities of the bodily; Discorporated by the light All my pleas; denied By my psychological enemy The inner light unseen"

we can feal that there is something more than this reality, but the social lines keep us tied to here and now (jobs, family...)

"Minds lit like candles, by rejected senses and emotions. Tearing flames, born in mind; Creations of self deception. Strained, not to lose the grip - Humans locked in the new disease. (the new disease is the fear of loosing the grip on reality) A light by eyes unseen has come to burn us clean."

A terminal journey to relieve cognition of Ability

the only way out from this condition of DISability (to see the light) is death.

so we are put on trail, and we are sentansed guilty...

"I... I was never reprieved Now I know the sentence of me exquisite, internal machinery of torture "