Bush - Machinehead

  

Machinehead by Bush

ALBUM
Sixteen Stone, 1994 (first release)

BAND MEMBERS AT THE TIME
Robin Goodridge, Dave Parsons, Nigel Pulsford, Gavin Rossdale

FUN FACT
The band has had great success abroad but is not very popular in their native England.

ABOUT THE SONG
A machine head is the top of a guitar, where the strings get tuned, but in this case is a metaphor for heroin. Or it’s about letting go of one’s ego. Or it’s an ode to poet Allen Ginsburg. (Rossdale's lyrics are known for being confusing.)

LYRICS
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in, breathe out
Breathe in

Tied to a wheel
My fingers got to feel
Bleeding through a tourniquet smile
I spin on a whim
I slide to the right
I felt you like electric light
For our love
For our fear
For our rise against the years and years and years

Got a machinehead
It’s better than the rest
Green to red

I walk from my machine

Deaf, dumb, and thirty
Starting to deserve this
Leaning on my conscience wall
Blood is like wine
Unconscious all the time
If I had it all again, I’d change it all

(I’ve seen the best minds of my generation
They are starving, hysterical, and naked)

I walk from my machine.

VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPbqYoz9HA