Ghost In The Machine

There’s something there deep down inside
It’s very quiet; it likes to hide
It’s there no matter what they say
It’ll stay
And it won’t go away
And it will not decay

And beneath the decks, in the oily gloom
Of the super tanker’s engine-room
The Stoker’s Mate nearly drops his broom
As a cry rings out like the crack of doom
And everyone saw the fixed grimace
Of frozen fear on the Stoker’s face
But he never told them what took place
And they had to send him back to base
But the Engineers all knew he’d seen
The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine

Everything’s looking clean and neat
In the air-conditioned computer-suite
It’s three a.m. and the run’s complete
The computer man can put up his feet
He throws the switch, but there’s something wrong¬
The power’s off, but the tapes spin on
The printer keeps typing the word ‘Babylon’
And just for a moment, and then it’s gone
Is a shadowy face on the monitor screen
The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine

There’s something there deep down inside
It’s very quiet; it likes to hide
It’s there no matter what they say
It’ll stay
And it won’t go away
And it will not decay

At the new recording studio
The band all went home hours ago
But the singer’s there and he’s feeling low
‘Cos the music’s sounding dull and slow
He plays the tape back just once more
But there’s something there he’s never heard before
A vocal track that he did not record
Just the eerie sound that he was looking for
But who is the voice on track thirteen?
The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine

In the underground laboratory
They are searching electronically
For the part of the anatomy
That contains your own identity
They have ransacked through the human brain
And they know what all the bits contain
But their search for the soul has been in vain
‘Cause what thinks the thoughts? What feels the pain?
The answer is what it’s always been
Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine