Man vs. Machine

By Ice Cube

On I Am the West

Released on September 28, 2010

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[Intro]

Yo, we in a fight for our lives

We in a fight for our lives

And the trip thing about it

I don't know if we can win

And what's sad.. I don't think we wanna win


[Verse 1]

Can you help me? A nigga need a job

I'm desperate, for some corn on the cob

I'm helpless, will I have to steal and rob?

No black business so I got to ask Bob

Bob got a job but it's done by a robot

No lunch break so it can do a whole lot

Mo' than a human being, and it's European

Ran by a Korean-American

So there I am, surrounded by aluminum

It's nowhere you can run

It's nowhere you can be

It's just you and me, versus modern day machinery


[Hook: repeat 2X]

It's man vs. machine, baby

My head's in the guillotine, baby

It might take it off clean, baby

Automated dreams equals man vs. machine, baby


[Verse 2]

I'm a fly caught in a web

A fish stuck in the Internet

Don't they know I'm a deadly catch?

Eat this meat, every bite so full of stress

So what can I say to you?

I'm highly relatable and bio-degradable

I thought we was unfadeable

Slaves to machinery, is that the way to go?

I don't need you to fuck

24-7, I gets that computer love

I don't need you to love

Human contact, ain't what it used to was


[Hook]

It's man vs. machine, baby

My head's in the guillotine, baby

And it took it off clean, baby

Automated dreams equals man vs. machine, baby


[Outro: Repeat 2X]

The whole world is automated

It need to be investigated

When people are eliminated

What we 'posed to do when it's time to feed all the babies?