Stop the Machine

You smashed everything I own

You wrecked my nerves and you cracked my bones

Drop everything and I hurl it home

When I’m with you, I’m all alone

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

Mercy

I wanna bawl and you wanna fight

I’m loosened up and you’re all uptight

You’re on my back and you're on the phone

When I’m with you, I’m all alone

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

When I’m with you, I’m all alone

When I’m with you, on my own

On my own

Oh yeah

Come home from work to

“Oh it’s you”

You criticise the little things that I do

But when I need you,

You don’t wanna know

When I’m with you, I’m all alone

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

When I’m with you, I’m all alone

When I’m with you, on my own

I’m on my own

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

Na na nanana nananana na

When I’m with you, I am all alone

You must leave now, take what you need you think will last

But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast

Yonder stands your orphan with his gun

Crying like a fire in the sun

Look out, the saints are coming through

And it's all over now, Baby Blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense

Take what you have gathered from coincidence

The empty-handed painter from your streets

Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets

The sky too is folding under you

And it's all over now, Baby Blue

All your seasick sailors, they're all rowing home

Your empty-handed army is all going home

Your lover who just walked out the door

Has taken all his blankets from the floor

The carpet too is moving under you

And it's all over now, Baby Blue

Leave your steppingstones behind there

Something calls for you

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you

The vagabond who's rapping at your door

Is standing in the clothes that you once wore

Strike another match, go start anew

And it's all over now, Baby Blue

Pass the ammunition,

Something going down

Another crazy politician

Wants to give me a gun

Old men cryin’ out

For young men’s blood

And they’ll take yours out 

One by one

Some day I’ll tell you son

How the West was won

Well, your days are numbered

You’re gonna wind up dead

And there’s a new revolution

Starting every day

All you gotta do now

Is get outta your head

Think about the people

That you hurt instead

Some day I’ll tell you son

How the West was won

Strange times

Strange times

Well the world was waiting

Between heaven and hell

Well the world was waiting

For the final bell

Well I don’t wanna live forever

But I don’t wanna die

For some crazy politician

So why should I?

Some day I’ll tell you son

How it all begun

Some day I’ll tell you son

How the West was won

Why d’you keep hanging on

If I’ve done you wrong, done you wrong?

For there’s something here, something strong

Promise me I’m the only one

But my cheating heart

Won’t let me

My cheating heart

Won’t let me

Won’t let me

I’m gonna find something real

And I’ll let you know how it feels

Well I found a job, found a place

I got money now and a dirty face

And my cheating heart

Won’t let me

My cheating heart

Won’t let me

My cheating heart

Won’t let me

My cheating heart

Won’t let me

Baby

Well I know I don’t belong

In this big city, just feels wrong

But I’m coming round to its ways

Seems like now I gotta pay

For my cheating heart

My cheating heart

Yeah yeah yeah, my cheating heart

My cheating heart

My cheating heart

My cheating heart

My cheating heart

People, woah people

Talking to everyone

I said people, all you people

Gonna tell you what’s going on

I got some bad news

And some good news

For you

Oh yeah

There are three things

Three things,

There are three things that 

We all need

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Sweet redemption

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Brothers and sisters,

Brothers and sisters,

You all know about money,

Well it’s the root of all evil

It’s the root of all evil

But it sure tastes like honey

But if you wanna go to paradise

If you wanna go to paradise

That stuff is no good,

No good!

Cos when you die

You can’t take it with you, brother

No matter what you do,

No matter what you do

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Sweet redemption

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Children,

Woah children

The time is getting near

We got nuclear bombs, disease and poverty

And we live in fear

Children,

Oh children

Don’t be afraid to die

Well, what the caterpillar calls

The end of the world

Well you know,

Call it a butterfly

Now

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Sweet redemption

Pain, heartbreak and redemption

Brother Paul

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

Today you love me, tomorrow you won’t

But I can’t say the words, they are stuck in my throat

Well I got a feeling deep in my bones

I’m gonna do something, that’s all I know

I don’t care about money

And I feel so alive

It’s a long, long way back

To Slieveban Drive

Soldier boy’s watching me walk down the street

Well I couldn’t care less, I got someone to meet

And I’m walking round Andersonstown on a trip

Getting hip

Well I’m gonna die someday, but today isn’t it

When was the last time

The last pill you cried?

It’s a long, long way back

To Slieveban Drive

Well I know in my heart, I cannot stay

And I know in my heart, I can't live that way

And nobody told me you reap what you sow

Nobody told me what I need to know

But I got a feeling deep in my bones

I’m gonna do something, that’s all I know

That’s all I know

And I’m down in the city

Feeling empty inside

And it’s a long, long way back

To Slieveban Drive

To Slieveban Drive

It’s a long way back

It’s a long way

Blue eyed boy

Got it wrong in a fight

The man who killed him

Got it right

Don’t you wanna

Stay alive

Don’t you wanna

Stay alive

If you won’t go

I can’t wait here for you now

Ah come on girl

This is our world

Let’s get outta here

Let’s get outta here now

Cos everybody

Needs a gun

Coulda been me

That took your place

When they shot you down

You were just another face

Just a cruel

Just a face 

Wrong time

Wrong time, wrong place

If you won’t go

I can’t wait here for you now

Ah come on girl

This is our world

Let’s get outta here now

Let’s get outta here now

Cos everybody

Needs a gun

Ah come on girl

This is our world

Let’s get outta here

Let’s get outta here

This is our world

C’mon girl, c’mon girl, come on

C’mon girl, come on

This is our world, come on

And everybody

And everybody needs

A gun

Stop it

Shut up

You better shut up

Well, there’s too much talk

And there’s nowhere to walk

Fill my cup

I feel dirty

Dirty and tired 

I feel weird

Weird and wired

Won’t somebody please

Stop the machine?

Don’t wanna hurt anybody

But I do just the same

Don’t wanna hurt anybody

But I do just the same

That's my blood

On a ten dollar bill

I said that's my blood

On a ten dollar bill

Won’t somebody please

Stop the machine?

Woke up this morning

Got them World War Three blues

Woke up this morning

Got them World War Three blues

Please please please

Please please please

Please please please

Please please please

Stop the machine

Stop the machine

Stop the machine

Stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Stop, stop, stop the machine

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

You know, you know

You know what I mean

You know, you know

You know what I mean mean mean mean

Tell your mother

I got the blues

Tell your mother

That’s what I do

Well I know

That’s not much

Tell your mother

I’m down on my luck

All the streetlights, and halo and glow

I’m talking my girl to a place that I know

Where we can make love, no one will call

We can make love away from it all

Will you take me just as I am?

Will you take me just as I am?

But I know that’s not much

But didn’t you say love is enough,

Didn’t you say love is enough?

Well the room was spinning round

So I laid my body down

I just wanna sleep, I don’t care where

Just let me be, cos I been three days on the tear

Well your love was all in vain

And you won’t see me again

I broke your heart and I don’t care

And all our pills mean I’m not going anywhere

If nobody breaks it, I will

If nobody breaks it, I will

Oh God you know, I’m so twisted up inside

I gotta straighten up

Cos I'm too wired up inside

Don’t you follow me around

Cos I’ll only let you down

I don’t know why my head is there

All I know is I’ve been three days on the tear

Three days

Three days on the tear

Three days on the tear

How can I refuse

All the beauty that you give

All your jewels

What you relay

Take your bitterness

And put it away

Look around, look around

Look around all you people

Can’t you feel, can’t you feel

Can’t you feel what I’m feeling?

Oh the street looks so good tonight

And I can see all the bright city lights

Here comes trouble, here comes nothing at all

And then we walk on top of the wall

Better not fall

Look around, look around

Look around all you people

Can’t you feel, can’t you feel

Can’t you feel what I’m feeling?

Look around, look around

Look around all you people

Can’t you feel, can’t you feel

Can’t you feel what I’m feeling?

Let me take you

Down the town

And we’ll drink

Till we drown

Throw your troubles

On the fire

Watching flames

Get higher and higher

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Look around, look around

Look around all you people

Can’t you feel, can’t you feel

Can’t you feel what I’m feeling?

Look around, look around

Look around all you people

Can’t you feel, can’t you feel

Can’t you feel what I’m feeling?

Oh yeah

If I should fall

In a deep blue sea

Would you jump in the water

Try to rescue me?

If we die together

In a lovers’ embrace

The last thing you’ll ever see

Is my little paleface

Sail on 

To your little girl

Sail on 

To the other side of the world

Sail on 

Till your find a better place

And the wind is blowing hard

On my poor little paleface

Way up high

In the sky above

I’m going home

To the one I love

I’m going home

To my home base

Won’t be long

Till you see

My little paleface