Ghost In The Machine lyrics - Dawes

Standing right outside the Echo

When we were still just cutting teeth

Turning madness into waveforms

Searching chords for what's beneath

All these existential freshmen

Trying to keep our noses clean

Scared to show our faith in

The ghost in the machine

Standing right outside the Echo

When we were working for the door

Assuming all our dreams were brighter than

The bands we played before

But you could see it in their hunger

You could hear it in their screams

They too were just trying to make contact

With the ghost in the machine

Through the build-ups and the breakdowns

Through the boom and through the crash

Building stockpiles of excuses

On how to trade it in for cash

All the poisonous motel rooms

The lobby call at 6:15

One million miles upon a highway

For a ghost in the machine

All the doubts and hesitations

I built up in my early years

Are under reconsideration

Through the music of the spheres

Which I cannot deny any longer

When every night I reconvene

With these vibrations giving proof of

The ghost in the machine

The ghost in the machine

The ghost in the machine

The ghost in the machine