Ultravox: “I Want to Be A Machine”

(Am/F x02211)

[Am/F]I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well
While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets
I slumbered in my shell
[Am/F]In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine
Kissed me on my eyes
I rose and left the fire-ladies
Glowing lonely in the night
With all the pornographers
Burning torches beneath the sea

Chorus:
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine

[Am/F]I stole a cathode face from newscasts
And a crumbling fugue of songs
From the reservoir of video souls
In the lakes beneath my tongue
[Am/F]In flesh of ash and silent movies
I walked at boulevards again
A nebula of unfinished creatures
From the lifetimes of my friends
I hope your innocence has depraved me

(Chorus)

Em F G …

[Am/F]Broadcast me, scrambled clean
Or free me from this flesh
Let the armchair cannibals take their fill
In every cell across wilderness
[Am/F]We’ll trip such a strangled tango
We’ll waltz a wonderland affair
Let’s run to meet the tide tomorrow
Leave all emotion dying there
In the star cold beyond all of your dreams

(Chorus)

Em F G …

Ah!

One Lyrics
by Ultravox

Corrected Version – Ignore the other.

Transcribed by : Humberto Fabrette

it’s hard to believe the time has come
for this one
for this one

good fortune has breathed its breath upon
this one
this one

a handful of wanting, waiting my turn

a mountain of past, a future to burn

a dream of tomorrows, and what will become, become

with hope upon hope and blind desire

empty horizons fuel my fire

waiting for something

from lifes great liar

it’s hard to believe the time has come
for this one
for this one

good fortune has breathed its breath upon
this one
for this one

it’s hard to believe the time has come
for this one

(solo)

binding my time till my time is due

waiting in line as world looks through me
right through

it’s hard to believe the time has come
for this one
for this one

good fortune has breathed its breath upon
this one
for this one

it’s hard to believe the time has come
for this one, for this one

good fortune has breathed its breath upon
this one
for this one

it’s hard to believe the time has come