Lyrics for A New Machine (Part 1) as interpreted by Demau Senae

A New Machine (Part 1) Lyrics
I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
it feels like more than a lifetime
feels like more than a lifetime

Sometimes I get tired of the waiting
sometimes I get tired of being in here
is this the way it has always been?
could it ever have been different?

Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
do you ever get tired of being in there?
don't worry, nobody lives forever,
nobody lives forever

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thatsreallymessedup
03-10-2002

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Its kinda odd that the machine talks about it has always been there, but then it says nobody lives forever. I wonder if they are including themself or just the human race?

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Snocore04
04-26-2002

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Whenever Pink Floyd talks about any kind of machine, i get the sense that he's refrerring to the machine that controls "buisness," and in most cases with Pink Floyd, the part that's controlling music. If you read the song in terms that he's "within the machine of music," it makes a lot of sense.

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noisicus
05-19-2002

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The drudgery of the modern world is giving rise to 'A New Machine'- the stupefied human made such by his rigid one-dimensional life.He can no longer remember the beginning or see the end near in sight.Life is a drag and the only consolation is that 'nobody lives forever'
Brilliant philosophy.

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ThePython
08-21-2002

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The "I have always been here" doesn't necessarily mean living forever. It means "I have always been in this body and I don't know anything outside of what I see and think."

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Eleventeen333
08-30-2002

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The machine refers to life. the same machine as in the song welcome to the machine (the machine being the machine that pumps it's product -humans- out in a static manner) in this song the speaker is begining to look out of this new machine....wondering what it's like on the outside (no body lives forever, no body lives forever)

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Publius
02-17-2005

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I always found another meaning to this and most of the stuff on AMLOR. I thought it was a cry for help to Roger. 'The Machine' is Pink Floyd, that entity which has skipped eath twice and is still dormant; and here The Machine is calling for Roger to rejoin them and that they will always be there waiting for him; 'Sometimes I get tired of the waiting' and then a further message to tell him to hurry up; 'Nobody lives forever'. Pink Floyd work as a machine and at the moment they are a new kind of machine without Roger. Part 2 is just an extension; another piece of advice for Roger 'it's only a lifetime'.

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Wurby Tictoc
03-04-2005

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It sounds to me like it's about Syd Barrett.

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Linyeika
04-06-2005

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When he says "I have always been here," then, "is this the way it has always been? Could it ever have been different?" try to imagine what you felt before 'you,' i.e., before you were born. Absolute nothingness. Try to feel what you felt thern, and then realize that that is how you will feel when you die. If you focus hard on trying to feel that nothingness, it is a sombering experience. But back to the point, which is that is that i don't think hes talking about that, or anything really. He is just expressing what he feels. He was probebly jotting down musical biographical/editorial piece, about how he was thinking then.

Not everything has to have a special hidden meaning, that would be kinda corny and fairy-tale-ish.

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Arnold Layne
12-10-2005

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The worst song ever recorded by Pink Floyd? I don't doubt it.

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Govtwriteslyrics
04-07-2006

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PEOPLE we must understand this song is about the MAN who sold the world the third anti christ that discovers music in the third person is HIS life and the government has written music for HIM HE will discover he cant be killed by walking around a park and making prank sexual phone calls to a city thats why when you are face to face with Him you cant kill Him although music is HIS life you can see the trends in such bands as the eagles the police and especially david bowie thats why there is jesus doesnt want me for a sunbeam before it on nirvanas unplugged thats why its the man who sold the world he sells out all the bands especially pink floyd with THE WALL ten years before the berlin wall ironic no govt we are all bricks in the wall not to mention the flesh and bone by the phone also found in personal jesus by johnny cash you can see it in discographies as well in radiohead nirvana and audioslave as well as the stones let it bleed and the beatles let it be if you are a music buff you can understand and see HAIL TO THE THIEF THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD like the cage in wish you were here referring to the sacrafice (man burning shaking other mans hand) referring to satan's thousand years in revelation and cages mentioned in the wall and division bell its about the man who sold the world who is waiting to see if he will live forever and be forever young

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Govtwriteslyrics
04-07-2006

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its hopeless to try and prove this most historic information but you can see the trend in music the govt has written

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inpraiseoffolly
05-09-2006

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The vocals are horrible, but other than that, everything is fairly good. The lyrics are quite good by Gilmour's standards.

AMLOR is one of the worst Pink Floyd albums, but it's not too bad, overall.

And I doubt that this was a cry for help to Roger, given the state of his relationship with the band at the time.

A poem:

Called: Mr. Prez

Jolly good, mr prez
i heard you needed able bodied men
by sifting through all the doubt
all the lies and rumors floating about
I heard you needed more lives to spend

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Grind838
07-09-2006

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I thought I was the only one here who likes this song (Along with Part 2).

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*JoSIe*
07-09-2006

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This song is ok, but all the "post waters" stuff is nothing comapred to The Wall or WYWH.

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inpraiseoffolly
07-14-2006

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The lyrics are decent, ill give them that, they're decent (though nowhere near waters - "can't touch this, dau-nau-nau-nau"). As for the music..., well, I just don't think I could say anything flattering except under extreme life-threatening circumstances.

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TheKeeper
08-16-2006

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I always thought this was about a mind trapped in a head in cryogenc freeze. Was that topical when the song was written, or just when I first got into the album? (1990 at polytechnic.) Dunno where I got the idea from, but it fits for me. (Check out Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (TV drama) for a similar idea, but much later.)

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Grind838
08-21-2006

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Sometimes, I decide to sing this song (Along with Part 2) on my microphone. So, I plug it into my brother's amplifier and set it to 'Insane'. Then I get an extremely distorted voice which is nothing compared to the real vocals on this track. Sometimes, I like to add a long echo to it. It's fun, but my brother doesn't really like me using his amplifier... because I don't own one myself.

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LouDawg808
10-12-2006

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Worst song ever recorded by Pink Floyd. Yet, its still good

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phasetransition
09-07-2007

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@thatsreallymessedup: Interesting question actually. I figure they're probably talking about themselves. It's kind of like some small comfort after all the waiting, that at least you won't have to wait forever. This whole album has one song that like fits into the next. I mean just look at the next song, sorrow :)

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Arial
11-21-2007

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If you think this is bad, listen to Nick Mason's 'Entertainment' on Ummagumma and then tell me this is the worst. To be quite honest, this song isn't bad to me. Its not meant to be a song on its own - its a part of the album and i think both parts complement terminal frost exactly. Any thoughts?

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Matt Holck
09-01-2009

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yep still stuck here

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