Metal Storm logo
Horse The Band - The Mechanical Hand lyrics



Tracks



01. Birdo

Bird..... Ooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

The geek, with no beak:
He's so weak he cannot speak!

Vestigial wings
And dwarven legs.
A semper fi cranium that's got automatic eggs.
His gaping maw Is geared to spew.
He just might be a she
So Birdette will do!!

Go eat your eggs!
Force fed, force fed.
Go eat your eggs!
Out of his mouth
Straight at your head!!

With purple pants,
They start to tear
I reach out with all my might to poke out an eye.
I poke out an eye!

My seven year old smile: Vanishing!
Eggs, why eggs?!
It's breaking my heart.
It's hurting my nose.
It's turning my skin green!
Why did you have to be so mean?

In my dreams I despise you
More than you'll ever know.
Even when I speak your name
It makes me fucking choke!

Bird...... Ooooooooooooo!!!

Throw it back!

02. A Million Exploding Suns

I've forgotten my name
I'm sick and weak and fresh from sleep
I crawl from a crooked bed with dirty feet and shaky hands
the numbers on the clock read one-one-o-four-A M
I've got time to clean myself
then sell my soul again
when I sleep I dream
I dream I am awake
or was it when awake I dream I am asleep
I work, I shit, I eat, I sleep
I'm inspected by the number 7
this can't be my life
no this isn't me

I don't know what's beset this change
I barely recognize my own face
in my mind something's just not right
but in my heart I'm bathed in golden light
Bathed in golden light!

my eyelids still heavy, my pulse still faint
I'm puzzle pieces, my memory's stained
I feel strength swell, a day dream
i'm shaking under this duality
My pulse still faint
I hear a strange voice but don't know what it's saying

And in this moment
seconds stop and I burst with clarity
a wealth of love and hate gone blank
for I finally remember my fucking name!

I eat rocks
and I breathe wind
I've been around the world and back again
I've lost the static
and the grey is gone
I've got the power of a million exploding suns!

I am consumed by my might
Blinded by light as I would be in night
The void is holding me tight
It doesn't feel right
When will I ever break free?
Within or without I'm chained by the dream
The void is holding me tight
It doesn't feel right

Bright lights flood my eyes
It's true
Now I realize the perilous truth of a perilous life by my own device
The strength of my high is the strength of my low
Unless there's no me
They both, they both explode

03. Manateen

I feel like im becoming a butterfly or a golden bee
My smile is like razorblades
When I smile it cuts bloody deep
my body is in the magazines
my face on the TV
my voice on the radio
thats me in my dreams
but when I open my eyes
I see I'm just a piece of shit!

A worthless coward
A vapid whore
A moral-less refugee
Covered in sores
A blithering sea cow
Lost in its dreams
Nobody likes me, yeah
Nobody wants me at all

Wet blue world, it fills me up
I find I'm deep inside
waves crash and I breathe water
but I haven't died
I won't come up
I won't come up for air

And beneath the waves
I hide my head in darker waters
and nobody sees
I cut myself
and hope to draw you in
but even the sharks pass by
someone please explain
all alone I'm growing colder
laughter like cancer over my shoulder
mirrors like hatchets to the world of my face
you know I'm a complete, I'm a complete disgrace

I'm not a manateen
Just leave me alone
And beneath the sea
I give up and I descend
and I'm finally free

And in the end
wet blue world, fills me up
fills me deep inside
waves crash and I breathe water
but I haven't died

Never
With a furious poison in my heart
Will I return from the darker waters
I let the tide tear me apart
Never
With a furious poison in my veins
Will I return from the darker waters
I won't hold my breath and wait for change
I die
It's a suicide
My body swallowed by the big blue violence
This is the endless tide
I won't come up
I won't come up for air tonight

Cold and all alone
I held my own, now I give up

04. The House Of Boo

Lights out, shadows bloom
crawling hands slide to me, across a midnight room
I fear my blankets may not be the best
defenses that I could muster
still the chill beyond is like lizard claw
calling from the hereafter
silent things scream from silent dreams bang
still the room is still yet I'm filled with a cold
I'm terrified!

pause cold i'm alone
I pick up the phone
but I fear that it's been disconnected
I don't even check
because I hear a breath
and I know
this is the end of me
I'm going to hell

A silent scream it whispers free from me
my mouth is dry my eyes are wide
I'm statuesque, petrified
the room is black!
my mind is redish
I'm alone in the room
but there's someone in my head
Hungry hands haunt me in the morrow of the night
I'm thinking, shaking, begging for a precious nite-light because
I'm terrified!

what should I do when the nightmares come true
the lampshades have faces and the closets are cruel
gasp and tremble, weep and drool

Dawn's glorious light, a stale recourse
in the empty cup I'm still seeing stars
well that's all right
it's like I'm already there
seven dawns up, seven moons down
I'll get to sleep some night soon
that's all right
it's like I'm already there

05. Heroes Die

(Instrumental)

06. Softer Sounds

The sheep, tonight they weep
Fear, for the feeding
Gasp, clutched in groups
No they don't
No they don't hope

These poor sheep tonight they weep
Begging for death but they settle for sleep
Sound of grinding metals always looming near by
Their bodies are caged and now so are their minds
Oh. These trembling things
These poor sheep can't lay their heads down
(no dreams of softer sounds)

Blood is in the mud
Trampled by hooves
That constantly shake
And nervously move
No hope or ambition
They stay with the group
These filthy fucking animals
They're just like you

Animals
We're animals

And in the twilight swoon
Under an empty moon
The creatures stop their shake
And plan a quick escape

They're dancing on barbwire
Fraught with curdled screams
Messy skins and messy fluids
Pave a road to golden dreams
They move in a frenzy
Across their mothers backs
Out into the open
They don't look back

Sounds. It rots their minds, leaves them blind
Sounds. It rots their brains, drives them insane
No dreaming of softer sounds!

07. Octopus On Fire

Right now, in the heat of my head
A flower blooms that was already dead
December's long gone
But these fields are forever frozen
And everything she said
Burns in the back of my head
Quicksands of silver
Under dreams still glittering golden

All along I sing this song
It runs wild like a river inside
A voice cries out sharp words of doubt
If I take them to heart they make me bleed
Everyday my attention strays
Light like life it fades away
The clock it ticks
I turn my back
I feel the surface bulge and crack

Tick tick tock tick tock tick tick tick tock tick tock tick

I want the change
I feel the change

Then post-metamorphosis where do the answers lie
One above and one below with lions locked inside

Then in silence they turn the key
Setting all those lions free

Then I hold my head up higher and higher
Reach out tentacles to every desire
I faced the sea and it's time for a change
I am an octopus in flames

Sinking underwater
Sweating boiling getting hotter
Bubbles burst between my fingers
My breath is cracked and drawn
Sinking like an anvil
And facing several tentacles
My eyes go black and pop red cherries
The surface me is gone
Gone
I'm gone

I'm mesmerized, a servant to the light I can't deny it
With everyone standing here
I'm a million miles away
A change

08. Soaring Quails

(Instrumental)

09. Taken By Vultures

Taken by vultures, swooped down to the raping
Stolen by relentless talons
Taken by vultures, swooped down to the kill
Stolen by relentless talons

Abandon with reckless
Take me

Weak and blood red from a broken beak
Here comes the sound of dusty wings hungry for dead things

Slaves!
Masturbate to a single note

Taken by vultures, take me away

10. A Rusty Glove

Tinker, pling, ding
My body breaks, the void screams
Weary of hollow metals that ring of hollow life
By hand and by hammer I give birth tonight
Metal bend and metal scream
Welding bright the circuit seam
Weary of the hollow spaces between the twinkling lights
I lost something along the way and it doesn't feel right

Maybe I'm not falling apart but falling a lot
Maybe I'm not completely circuitry but I can't stop

I'm gonna fall apart!

Coming close, I'm coming closer or maybe I'm not
I can make you a sex machine that would be hot
Break my nails and pull my hair
There's circuit boards everywhere
How long have I been in here?
This is not my house

Maybe I'm not falling apart but falling a lot
Maybe I'm not completely circuitry but I can't stop

I'm not a robot but I've got a mechanical hand
I can steal the stars and put them back again
Once upon a time, I had a broken heart
Once upon a time, I just had a heart
I limped when I was wounded, so I replaced my parts
Once upon a time I had a heart but
I'm not a robot but I've got a mechanical hand
I can steal the stars and put them back again
If I am a machine because my hand made heart
Then why do I dream I'm a dinosaur tearing sheep apart

Lightning fills me up, it tells me where to go
Colors me and changes me, it withers me to coal
Lightning tears me up, leaves me smoldering
I close my eyes and hear her voice framed by vulture wings

In the wires of my hand, I see my fate
Cold and mechanical, squeaky with hate
It clicks, whirs and I'm satisfied
It's designed to fill that black hole deep inside
I'm turning away from the path of soft skin to a path of mechanical sin
Turning away from the warmth of gold to an empty machine that's broken and cold

Click, click, click hollow rooms always consume
Click, click, click dark and empty like most of the moon
Click, click, click the things we do in the name of love
Click, click, click secret machines and a rusty glove

Sleep well mechanical thing, you were fun for awhile
But now I'm going to go and get a burrito

11. Sand

Walk with me my monster, but close those crusty eyes
The sounds I make may be abrasive, but you'll be all right
Turn off all your senses and pretend you're home
Walk with me and you walk alone
Yeah!!!

At the sight of his scales
You start to shake
You can never trust a snake
At the sight of his scales
You start to scream
You can't trust a fanged thing

Grain by grain, so hot I've lost it
Echoes peck and gnaw at me
Creep, I crawl, shake I'm breaking
Creep and crawl, they're chasing me
Serpents!

And I feel, so cold
Like the world just might explode
And if I open my mouth it will fill full of sand

At the sight of his scales
You start to shake
You can never trust a snake
At the sight of his scales
You start to scream
You can't trust a fanged thing

It's safe to say I've finally lost it
The wells gone dry and abandoned me
Creep, I crawl, begging droplets
Of anything to comfort me
Thirsty

Laying in a hot desert
Bitten by a poisonous snake
Soft venom floods my veins
I have lost my heartbeat
My poor pulse is quivering
And I've lost control
Descending to my ending
A perilous black hole

The rivers run dry and so has my veins
I'm a filthy animal begging for change
Nothing I do is going as planned
Nothing's left of me but fucking sand

The sun explodes, so slow
I feel the flames and I see the snow
All that's left of my mind is sea of sand

And everybody's celebrating!

I've lost my way
Desperate for change
Pursued by snakes
Bearing my name

I've lost my way
My skin's dry and baked
Fearing ill fade
I'm the snake

I walk with my monster, he beats me down
Bestial and savage thoughts, his arms are long
Can't get up, nothing's as planned
Nothing's left of me but fucking sand

12. Lord Gold Throneroom

The lights are on
The tvs off
The floors are flesh and silk
But sinfully soft
Skin glides over silk
And silk glides over skin
The penthouse is alive tonight
There's people writhing in its veins

Sunken in the masters chair
Lord golds faces a blank survey
Women pleasure men at the wave of his golden hand
And turn to receive as it waves again

The wine is fire
The whisky's full of stars
There's a deaf mute in a bunny suit
Working the bar
The lovers fuck
They pulse and moan
Passion paying tribute
At the foot of a porcelain

Sunken in the masters chair
Lord golds faces a blank survey
Women pleasure men at the wave of a golden hand
And turn to receive as he waves again

Still his eyes are like an empty carousel
Promising pleasure but offering none!
She needs him,
Watching, gazing, leering blankly vacant worthless golden perfect

Beyond these walls nothing exists
Here there's flesh and gold and blood in the wine
Outside there's barren emotional landscapes
Here we drink, dream and cum inside
Here there's no pain
Here she comes
Wash off the filth and bring her
Shower her body with julep and incense
Fill her with jewels covered in cum
Sacrificed in his altar of passions
The golden day has come

The lights are all off now
And the love growing louder
The pink, throbbing and filling the room
Indulging the inner, denying the outer
She's brought before he
His empty gaze it lingers
He beats a cat's paw against a toy drum
His golden will be done.

13. The Black Hole

I will not fade!
i might be a baby caught in the snow, but you know
I will not fade!
i ripped off my arms so long ago

All these wheels, they seem amazing
All these bombs must be ready to blow
All this time I could have tried
All this time I did not know

The letters grow long and weary and build into a maze
The dialects laid beneath drip from hands yellow-stained
Inside the envelope a heart of golden sand
Wrapped in snakes, clenched in a fist of a mechanical hand

Give up and go away into the void
Be silent and do not speak into the void
Be blind and do not gaze into the void
Be numb and do not reach into the void

And if they want
I'll come undone

I might be amazed like a baby but I don't have those eyes
Soaring quails sing of thier glories, vultures always lie
In the deep the creatures weep begging to be fried
Any change can be magnificent if you only try

Face the stars or the abyss!

I'll face the stars or the abyss
but not nothing at all
I'll face the stars or the abyss
from nothing i can't fall

All these wheels, they seem amazing
All these bombs must be ready to blow
All this time I could have tried
All this time I did not know

It's so amazing!