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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
John Deacon
John Deacon
Bass Guitar
Brian May
Brian May
Guitar
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
Lead Vocals
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor
Drums
Mack
Mack
Synthesizer Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Brian May
Brian May
Songwriter
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Queen
Queen
Producer
MIKE BEIRIGER
MIKE BEIRIGER
Additional Engineer
Stefan Wissnet
Stefan Wissnet
Assistant Engineer
Mack
Mack
Producer
Eddie DeLena
Eddie DeLena
Assistant Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
[Verse 2]
It's a machine's world
Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
When the machines take over
It ain't no place for rock and roll
They tell me I don't care
But deep inside, I'm just a man
[Verse 3]
They freeze me, they burn me
They squeeze me, they stress me
With smoke-blackened pistons of steel, they compress me
But no one, but no one, but no one can wrest me away
[Verse 4]
Back to humans
[Verse 5]
We have no disease, no troubles of mind
We are fighting for peace, no regard for time
We never cry, we never retreat
We have no conception of love or defeat
[Verse 6]
What's that machine noise?
It's bytes and mega chips for tea
It's that machine, boys
With Random Access Memory
Never worry, never mind
Not for money, not for gold, yeah
[Verse 7]
It's software, it's hardware
Its heartbeat is time-share
It's midwife's a disk drive
It's sex life is quantized
It's self-perpetuating, a parahumanoidarianised
[Verse 8]
Back to humans
Back to humans
[Verse 9]
Back to machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
Machines
[Verse 10]
Living in a new world
Thinking in the past (Humans)
Living in a new world
How you gonna last? (Humans)
Machine world
It's a machine's world (Humans)
Thinking in the past
Back to humans
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world
It's a machine's world
Machine world
Machine world
[Verse 11]
Back to humans
Hey, hey
Back to humans
Back to humans
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world
It's a machine's world
Written by: Brian May, Roger Taylor

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