Machines (Or 'Back To Humans')

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Credits

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, synthesizer
Brian May - guitars, backing vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, electronic drums, drum machine, synthesizer, Vocoder
Mack - Demolition Fairlight sampler
  • Length: 5:10

Discography

Albums:

The Works, 1984

Singles:

I Want To Break Free, 1984 B-side
I Want To Break Free, 1988 3" CD Single

Alternate Versions:

  • 12" Instrumental - 12" Collection: CDQ TEL 0001
  • US LP White Label Test Pressing (5:09) - Capitol ST - 12322

Queen Talks

"Basically, it starts off where everything's electronic - electronic drums, everything. And what you have is the 'human' rock band sort of crashing in. What you wind up with is a battle between the two."

Roger Taylor - 1984

Additional Info

Chords & Tabs

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Lyrics

Machines...

It's a machines 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
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
Back to humans

We have no disease no trouble of mind
No thank you or please no regard for the time
We never cry we never retreat
We have no conception of love or defeat

What's that machine noise?
It's bytes and megachips for tea
It's that machine boys
With random access memory
Never worry never mind
Not for money not for gold

Its software is hardware
Its heartbeat is time-share
Its midwife's a disc drive
Its sex life is quantised
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised

Back to humans
Back to humans

Back to machines
Machines...

Living in a new world
Thinking in the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world

Back to humans

It's a machines world
Thinking in the past (back to humans)
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world

It's a machine's world

Back to humans
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world
It's a machine's world