Fictional Machines Lyrics

Those fictional machines

They keep on workin' smoothly

Keep on rollin'

Keep on rollin'

These violent devices

With faces of our children

Keep on workin'

Keep on workin'

Our shiny mechanisms

Their edges honed to razors

They keep cuttin'

They keep cuttin'

We tended them for decades

Greased the cogs and spun the wheels

They keep turnin'

They keep turnin'

We put these things in place

There were safeguards

(There were safeguards)

We locked the instruments away

They were stolen

By our children

We tried to make things better

They were better

For a while

But our fictional machines

They are growing

Multiplying

Those fictional machines

They kept on workin' smoothly

Kept on rollin'

Kept on rollin'

And while we were busy

They grew bigger than our homesteads

Kept on growin'

Kept on growin'

And while we were busy

Our children grew to love them

How they loved them

How they loved them

And now the moment's passed

Too late to change direction

They keep rollin'

They keep rollin'