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I never sleep and I don't get tired
I drink like a champion and I don't hurry back to home
'Cause it burns inside me like a fire
Drinking all the air out of the room until we're all alone

And if I was like you, we'd have never got anything done
And if I thought like you did, we'd have never done anything fun
When your bones can ache like mine, you've got to answer to the call
I'm the only reason either of us did anything at all

Unto myself, I am an island
I can't make friends and I can never stay in touch
There's all this noise and I'm just silent
And all my contributions, they just don't amount to much

I always stare at the floor so that our eyes won't ever meet
And nothing scares me more than seeing someone I know on the street
I just want someone to blame but all these problems are my own
I'm just no good when I'm with someone and I can't stand to be alone

I never sleep and I don't get tired
My blood is oil, I'm a machine

But I am weak, these days it seems like all I ever do is bleed
If I could just be more like you, I simply wouldn't feel the need
But I am hungry and tired, even a monster's got to eat
I am anxious and wanting and I'll never be complete
There are all these people like me here but they aren't afraid to die
They'll survive, they are strong, they won't even have to try
Yes, I can smell it in the sweat that they've got dripping from their pores
And I have tasted their blood and now my body aches for more
And I refuse to desist here until one of us is dead
I have dug my own grave because I like to plan ahead
If I should lose all the feelings in either of my legs
I will gnaw through the bone just to rid me of the weight
And I'll let drain all my blood until I'm empty of the stuff
But it won't ever stop this aching, it'll never be enough

I never sleep and I don't get tired
My blood is oil, I'm a machine

I never sleep and I don't get tired
My blood is oil, I'm a machine