Dead Man - Machinery

Nothing’s different since yesterday

Still not a man but property

The liberated call me devil’s creation

A disgrace in the eye of god

They make me plead for mercy then whip me again

They lure me with false pretensions 'til I’m driven mad

Just when it feels right they tighten the noose

And pull me back in

I’m slave to another man

Slave in the promised land

Out of reach for a helping hand

Chained to the ground

I can’t shake it off it’s now a part of me

It’s in my system and runs through my veins

I take a step forward and fall two steps back

I’ve lost my identity

Unaccepted I walk through this land

Degraded until I’m too afraid

In the end hanging in a rope

Condemned by faithful hand

Slave to another man

Slave in the promised land

Out of reach for a helping hand

Chained for a greater cause

Once a man now utterly destroyed

Dragged down the road and now accepts his fate

Out of reach for a helping hand

Chained for a greater cause

Though he knows there will be another time

A time to repay for man what he has done