Phantom Machine

 **Phantom Machine**  

*(Verse 1)*  

Soon you’ll be on the scrap heap, torn in bits and pieces,  

The cameras won’t save you, their illusion ceases.  

The sky turns green—goddammit, hold on tight,  

Here come the giant insects, their teeth gleam in the night.  

Acid blood drips, devouring the ground,  

Goddamn you for the chaos, for the nightmare we’ve found.  

*(Chorus)*  

Phantom Machine, spinning through my brain,  

History’s frozen, nothing will remain.  

Shadows crawl, the river runs red,  

A bad trip anthem for the living and the dead.  

*(Verse 2)*  

Bodies float downstream, torn apart and hollow,  

The steering wheel through ribs—what horrors follow?  

The shadows swallow my soul whole,  

A black hole calls, and down I roll.  

Just a bleeding shell, left broken on the street,  

Stuff it with straw, but the crows won’t retreat.  

*(Bridge)*  

Your words are static, I can’t comprehend,  

Your lips are cold; is this the end?  

Eyes like beach stones, blank and dry,  

A shipwrecked mind beneath a burning sky.  

Painkillers rewind, but the past won’t fade,  

The machete’s edge cuts the future we made.  

*(Chorus)*  

Phantom Machine, spiraling through my brain,  

History collapses, it’s all in vain.  

The empire grows, we bleed to feed,  

A trip gone wrong where shadows lead.  

*(Verse 3)*  

Truckloads with machetes, they carve the night,  

The dead rise up, their eyes alight.  

Rotten wood splinters, machines dispense fear,  

The set rolls away, but the scars stay near.  

Makeup runs, the cameras dissolve,  

History ends, with no problem solved.  

*(Outro)*  

Phantom Machine, trapped in the stream,  

Where reality twists into a fever dream.  

Shadows laugh as the acid burns,  

The trip won’t end, no lesson learned.  

Hold on tight, there’s no escape,  

A kaleidoscope nightmare forever taking shape.