Mechanical Children Lyrics

A little boy without a home

Inside a factory he weeps

All day, all night he is alone

At night he dies, at day he sleeps

And when at night his ivory skin

Glows in the pale moon's light

A musicbox in his cold hands

Plays a melody in the night

This lonesome boy for years it seems

Haunts all the halls and rooms

One could think he hates machines

He hides in fear of death and doom

Why are they not seeing (Every night he lingers in fear)

That his heart has stopped beating (A silent scream only machines can hear)

Only his musicbox plays him a song (Night after night he climbs out of his hole)

Why is everything he once loved gone (He can never rest, he is a lost soul)

No-one knows that he's around

And no-one will ever know

His body is long dead and gone

His hounded spirit can never ever go

Why are they not seeing (Every night he lingers in fear)

That his heart has stopped beating (A silent scream only machines can hear)

Only his musicbox plays him a song (Night after night he climbs out of his hole)

Why is everything he once loved gone (He can never rest, he is a lost soul)

Why are they not seeing

That his heart has stopped beating

Only his musicbox plays him a song

Why is everything he once loved gone

When they tore that factory down

Destroyed all the machines and fans

They found a mass grave, centuries old

One of the boys had a musicbox in his hands

Why are they not seeing (Every night he lingers in fear)

That his heart has stopped beating (A silent scream only machines can hear)

Only his musicbox plays him a song (Night after night he climbs out of his hole)

Why is everything he once loved gone (He can never rest, he is a lost soul)