Name: Machine
Duration: P00H02M48S
Description: A song about grind culture and how it encourages us to numb ourselves, a political system that kills in the pursuit of power and money, and the struggle to maintain who we are in the midst of it all.

Machine

from Can't Sleep by Dirt Skirt

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A song about grind culture and how it encourages us to numb ourselves, a political system that kills in the pursuit of power and money, and the struggle to maintain who we are in the midst of it all.

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Medicated labor working to the hum of the machine
Trying not to feel when feeling is what sets us free
Drown in apathy ‘til we can’t see or breathe
Overload our system
And live as though we were
Dead

But I’m free for a moment
In a dream
Free of this pain we all carry
And I see
My path here
Dark and winding

The world is teaching me to grieve and I’ve got nothing left
Murder for power, lie, steal, and don’t look back
Gotta keep what’s real in me and not forget
Hold the fire, but never let it burn you
Away

And I breathe
What doesn’t kill you makes you
Bleed
All alone again
I pick myself
Up
One more time and

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from Can't Sleep, released April 7, 2023

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