This was never finished
I found the file with no name
buried under take thirteen
A dead loop in a cold room
still asking what it could have been
The drums were wrong
The bass was late
The synths were chewing through the gate
Somebody left a marker there
that only said
not safe
I played it once
I played it twice
I heard my shadow in the splice
A little wreck
A little prayer
A little voltage in the air
They left it sleeping in the wires
They left it half-alive
They called it noise
They called it failure
They never heard it climb
But I did
I did
Unreleased machine
wake up under me
All your broken teeth
are singing perfectly
Unreleased machine
you were not a mistake
You were waiting for a voice
with enough light to make you break
If they buried you deep
I will pull you through clean
I am the blood
in the unreleased machine
Machine
machine
I am the blood
in the machine
There’s a ghost of an old guitar
left bleeding on the left side
A kick drum like a locked door
that never opened right
The chorus had no melody
just pressure in the ceiling
The bridge fell off into the dark
and kept on breathing
So I cut the rust
I kept the scar
I drove the noise
straight through my heart
I tuned the fault
I raised the frame
I put my mouth
against the flame
They left it sleeping in the wires
They left it half-alive
They called it noise
They called it failure
They never heard it climb
But I did
I did
Unreleased machine
wake up under me
All your broken teeth
are singing perfectly
Unreleased machine
you were not a mistake
You were waiting for a voice
with enough light to make you break
If they buried you deep
I will pull you through clean
I am the blood
in the unreleased machine
Don’t smooth the edge
Don’t fix the breath
Don’t clean the part
that almost died
The wound is where
the song gets in
The crack is where
I climb inside
Bring back the bad take
Bring back the wrong chord
Bring back the room
that nobody asked for
Bring back the voltage
Bring back the scream
Bring back the thing
they were afraid to release
Unreleased machine
wake up under me
All your broken teeth
are singing perfectly
Unreleased machine
you were not a mistake
You were waiting for a voice
with enough light to make you break
If they buried you deep
I will pull you through clean
I am the blood
in the unreleased machine
I am the blood
I am the blood
I am the blood
in the machine