Survival Machines, the eleventh and final track on Dan Warren’s 2008 album The Scientist, tells the story of a person tasked with handling a cargo of human bodies on a journey into deep space. As space travel takes a long time, these people are kept in machines that maintain them alive until they re...
[Verse 1]
It's so quiet out here
I look for the sun, I can't find it out here
And all that dumb shit that they told us
About our manifest destiny's gone and forgotten now
We're only
[Chorus]
Survival machines
Connected like mother and child
Each needing the other to thrive
It's all or it's none who survive
[Verse 2]
Gone in the night is all sense of purpose
A thin veil of lives that just sat on the surface
I long to unload the sad cargo of corpses
And own my own life free from all these
[Chorus]
Survival machines
Connected like mother and child
Each needing the other to thrive
It's all or it's none who survive
[Instrumental]
Ba ba ba ba-da
Ba ba ba-da
La, la-da-da-da
Ba ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba
Ba, ba ba ba ba
[Verse 3]
Our goals are pure
What good does that do out here? I'm not sure
Looking back now on that comic-book future
We used to believe in, so foolish in hindsight I see
We were only
[Chorus]
Survival machines
Connected like mother and child
Each needing the other to thrive
It's all or it's none who survive
[Outro]
Ba-ba-aah
Ba-ba-aah
Ba-ba-aa-aa-aa-aa-aah, ba da
Survival Machines was written by Dan Warren.
Dan Warren released Survival Machines on Tue Jan 01 2008.