Ghost In The Machine - Intellectual

There’s something there deep down inside

It’s very quiet; it likes to hide

It’s there no matter what they say

It’ll stay

And it won’t go away

And it will not decay

And beneath the decks, in the oily gloom

Of the super tanker’s engine-room

The Stoker’s Mate nearly drops his broom

As a cry rings out like the crack of doom

And everyone saw the fixed grimace

Of frozen fear on the Stoker’s face

But he never told them what took place

And they had to send him back to base

But the Engineers all knew he’d seen

The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine

Everything’s looking clean and neat

In the air-conditioned computer-suite

It’s three a.m. and the run’s complete

The computer man can put up his feet

He throws the switch, but there’s something wrong¬

The power’s off, but the tapes spin on

The printer keeps typing the word ‘Babylon’

And just for a moment, and then it’s gone

Is a shadowy face on the monitor screen

The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine

There’s something there deep down inside

It’s very quiet; it likes to hide

It’s there no matter what they say

It’ll stay

And it won’t go away

And it will not decay

At the new recording studio

The band all went home hours ago

But the singer’s there and he’s feeling low

‘Cos the music’s sounding dull and slow

He plays the tape back just once more

But there’s something there he’s never heard before

A vocal track that he did not record

Just the eerie sound that he was looking for

But who is the voice on track thirteen?

The Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine

In the underground laboratory

They are searching electronically

For the part of the anatomy

That contains your own identity

They have ransacked through the human brain

And they know what all the bits contain

But their search for the soul has been in vain

‘Cause what thinks the thoughts? What feels the pain?

The answer is what it’s always been

Ghost in the Machine