Gremlins in the Machine

Verse 1

Clocking in

Steel toes hitting concrete

Another lever pulls back hard

Everything starts to glitch

That gremlin haunts the gears

Spanner in the works again

The bosses act like kings

But I'm just barely breathing

Pre-Chorus

Look at all the tall ego's standing on this site

Can we just be humans helping out for once

My heart is somewhere far from these dirty walls

While my mind starts to fracture and fall

Chorus

Zero to a hundred real fast

Seeing red inside the machine

Zero to a hundred real fast

The ghost follows my every move

Fucking up the parts I fix

Zero to a hundred real fast

Numbing out to hide the crack

Trying just to stay on track

Verse 2

Home feels cold

Walls closing in like jaws

She stands by my side

Even when I play the villain

I act like such an arsehole

Thinking she should find someone better

Someone who isn't a broken cog

Locked inside a heavy blue-collar fog

Pre-Chorus

Look at all the tall ego's standing on this site

Can we just be humans helping out for once

My heart is somewhere far from these dirty walls

While my mind starts to fracture and fall

Chorus

Zero to a hundred real fast

Seeing red inside the machine

Zero to a hundred real fast

The ghost follows my every move

Fucking up the parts I fix

Zero to a hundred real fast

Numbing out to hide the crack

Trying just to stay on track

Bridge

Pills don't fix the hole

Powders don't change the soul

Tricolon: I struggle, I suffer, I stay

Why does it have to be this way

Maybe she deserves a king

Maybe I'm just a rusted thing

Chorus

Zero to a hundred real fast

Seeing red inside the machine

Zero to a hundred real fast

The ghost follows my every move

Fucking up the parts I fix

Zero to a hundred real fast

Numbing out to hide the crack

Trying just to stay on track