Feed the Machine

by Idly By

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Occasionally we experience a moment of clarity. A sense of understanding. As if our perspective momentarily zooms way out and we get a glimpse of all the moving parts around us and where we sit among them.

This song is about acting on those moments. Witnessing the systems we live within and changing the way we behave to direct our lives with intention rather than being swept along.

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You've been counting these sheep
Lying awake in your sheets
Can't remember why
Kick them off with your feet
Go and wander the streets
Make your peace with the night

They're right out front
Right outside your window
The story's spun
Come crashing, come crashing down

You can't remember the good days
Can't remember not feeling this way

Gotta feed the machine
The machine needs the meek
So you give them your life
Pull it apart at the seems
You don't have to concede
But you might have to fight

Go for the throat
or a broken nose
Doesn't matter who's woke
Or the words that you spoke

We're all living wrong
It's all wrong
Will we sink or float?
I don't know, I don't know
Will your children choke?
I don't know

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released April 11, 2022
Written and produced by idly by
recorded, mixed and mastered by Lachy Pitcher at Depict Studios

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