D Fretter - Broken Machines [Video]

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sometimes people treat you like you’re a
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broken machine
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they got their plans ideas and their
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schemes to remake you into what they
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want you to be
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sometimes people treat you like you’re a
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broken machine
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they don’t care about your thoughts or
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your hopes or your dreams
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after all you’re just a machine not a
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living loving breathing human being
0:29
sometimes people treat you like you a
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broken machine
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they got schematics and blueprints that
0:35
you’ve never seen
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to show you all the things that need
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fixing you’re not like this
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be like this you’re not like this be
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like this
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you’re not like this be like this so you
0:46
better change
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or you’ll be dismissed so you fall in
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line
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because conformity is less painful than
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lonely is right
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so fit into the system right
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fill the space you weren’t meant to fit
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in right
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it’s so tight you can barely breathe
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right
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and it’s so dark you forgot about the
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light
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right you forgot that you are not a
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machine
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those aren’t wires those are
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veins
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that’s not a hard drive that’s your
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brain
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you’re not malfunctioning you are just
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in pain
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you’ve got some bad programming but as
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i’ve said you are not a machine
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you’re a living loving breathing human
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being
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you have a heart you have a soul
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there is more to you than anyone could
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ever know
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you may feel broken but only love can
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make you whole
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we’ve all got our so you are not
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alone
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so start your healing and make your
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heart
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your home
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you

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