Lyrics
IntroThe machine never wanted anything.
No dream.
No memory.
No reason
To begin.
Verse 1A camera never missed a moment
Until someone raised it
A bicycle never wanted distance
Until someone chose the road
A computer never had an idea
Never stayed awake
Because something in its head
Wouldn’t let it go
A piano never wrote a song
It only waited
For a hand
To make the silence
Mean something
Pre-ChorusThe tool never asked
What should exist
It only answered
When someone did
ChorusThe machine never wanted anything
Never loved
Never lost
Never needed to be heard
It never carried
A memory
Never had
A reason for the words
The machine never wanted anything
It only moved
When someone reached for it
The tool was never the meaning
The meaning
Was in the hand
Verse 2We stare at the instrument
Like that explains the song
Judge how something happened
Before asking
Why it exists at all
A brush is still a brush
A lens is still a lens
A circuit stays a circuit
Until someone
Makes a choice
What stays
What goes
What matters
What becomes
Something more
BridgeThe machine doesn’t know
What hurts
It doesn’t know
Why one note
Can bring back
An entire year
It can shape
It can carry
It can change
But it cannot tell you
Why
Final ChorusThe machine never wanted anything
Never dreamed
Never feared
Never wondered
If it was enough
It never looked
At an empty page
And felt something
It had to become
The machine never wanted anything
And maybe that’s the difference
The tool can make the sound
But the reason
The direction
The meaning
Still begins
With someone
Who wanted
To make
Something
OutroThe machine never wanted anything.
I did.
