Machine

Why, Scarlet
Can't you be at ease
Try, Scarlet
To trust the damn trustees
You, who spends half your day
Stowed away in your head
All that time gone to waste
Could be used instead

Work, Scarlet
Like everyone you see
Clerk, Scarlet
Is what you're here to be
Try, not to muse about
Think or doubt what's the point
Not a cog in this box can be out of joint

But what a question
What a promise
In each corner unexplored
How it fills me
Am I on to
Something bigger
Or just bored

Another day another task
Another chromium routine
Another chance to grow the plants
That set the scene
But does this feeling mean I'm dealing with a flaw
Have I found a flaw in the machine

No, Scarlet
The system is air tight
Though, Scarlet
The wind gets in at night
Then, you will lie awake
Watching the lanterns fade
And you'll wonder those thoughts
That the day forbade

What is lurking soft and hidden
In the embers of the coal
So enduring slowly luring
Calling me to lose control
I want a cut of who knows what of
But I want it sight unseen
Beyond the rust and ashen dust
My thoughts careen
I know it's wrong but for so long
I've felt this flaw
Certainly a flaw
Yes I've found a flaw in the machine

For how the could people
Who founded the system
Neglect to imagine a
Someone like me
A straight forward someone
Whose job is important
But she's at a loss as she
Stares 'cross the sea

And what kind of system
Discourages someone
Who strives to contribute
And does to a degree
But she
But she

She's not special
She's not someone
She's no pioneer of thought
And she'll grow out of this
And she won't miss the
Loneliness it wrought

And if she doesn't
If she doesn't
There's just one thing that would mean
From birth to now
And everyday
That came between

It stands to reason that she's always been the flaw
Scarlet, she's the flaw
Guess that I'm
The flaw in the
Machine