written by: Brian May/Roger Taylor
album: The Works(1984)
[Verse 1]
G
It's a Machine's world
F A#
Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
G
When the machines take over
F A#
It ain't no place for rock'n'roll.
[Prechorus]
F
They tell me I don't care
C
But deep inside I'm just a man
[Chorus]
G
They freeze me they burn me
They squeeze me they stress me
Am
With smoke-blackened pistons of steel they compress me
F C A#
But no-one, but no-one, but no-one can wrest me away
G
Back to Humans.
C
We have no disease, no troubles of mind
F C
No thank you, no please, no regard for the time
F G
We never cry, we never retreat
D# G
We have no conception of love or defeat.
[Verse 2]
G
What's that Machine noise
F A#
It's bytes and megachips for tea
G
It's that Machine, boys
F A#
With Random Access Memory
F
Never worry, never mind
C
Not for money, not for gold.
[Chorus]
G
It's software it's hardware
It's heartbeat is time-share
A
It's midwife's a disk drive
It's sex-life is quantised
F C F
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.
G
Back to Humans
Back to Humans.
F
Back to Machines, machines, machines, machines.
[Coda]
G
Living in a new world
G
Thinking in the past
G
Living in a new world
G
How you gonna last
F
Machine world...
G
It's a Machine's world...