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Clockworks Lyrics by Meshuggah

The Violent Sleep of Reason

2016

[Verse 1]
Dismantling the clockwork that makes me the cynic
Pallet, wheel, and click
The properties of my indifference
Reverse-engineering what makes it tick
Dissecting the fine-tuned mechanism
Rack and barrel, spring and pin
Its synchronous characteristics
To kill what makes it spin

[Refrain]
Disassemble this machinery
Reprogram these eyes, undo this design

[Verse 2]
Labelled and filed, each part indexed
Broken to pieces, then thoroughly burned
Deconstruction of what I am
Buried to make sure he never returns
Taken apart, defused
Blueprints turned to ashes
Eradicate the last remains
Remnants of the insane

[Chorus]
Disintegration
The destruction of me
Now imperative
To purge myself
Of this condition
Complete this dissolution
A necessity

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Break
Break
Break
This deceitful machine

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 3]
A lie, what once I was
Obsolete instrument
An outmoded contraption
A malfunctioning device
That callous self now extinguished
That malignant self now disused
That conceited invention
To nothing now reduced

[Chorus]
Complete disintegration
The destruction of me
Now imperative
To purge myself
Of this condition
Complete this dissolution
A necessity

[Outro]
Break
Break
Break
This deceitful machine
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About “Clockworks” by Meshuggah

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"Clockworks" appears on "The Violent Sleep of Reason" in 2016.

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