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Welcome to the machine Lyrics Artist(Band):Pink Floyd
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been. You've been in the pipeline, filling in time, Provided with toys and 'Scouting for Boys'. You bought a guitar to punish your ma, And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool, So welcome to the machine. Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream. You dreamed of a big star, He played a mean guitar, He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar. So welcome to the Machine. If you find some error in Welcome to the machine Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Ashley Austin for submitting the lyrics. Review about Welcome to the machine Welcome to the Music Industry Machine | Reviewer: Josh | 6/26/09 Welcome to the Machine is a 70's coined phrase that means you are entering the recording industries belly. Although a 1975 piece, this song actually makes more sense now in 2009 rather than when it was released. Look how the recording industry is today. Lawsuits, bad talent singers/groups, and they still make BILLIONS. Anyone with a sexy physical body can become the next Britney Spears or Miley Cyrus. There are no more group rock like Pink Floyd, The Who, Rolling Stones. Quite frankly... the machine has ate them up and "has flayed them into shape"... in the shape of pop music. Very sad, but very true. - PinkFloyd.ws Pick up a Pink Floyd book or watch an interview | Reviewer: WOW PEOPLE | 6/25/09 This song has nothing to do with the government (although that would be cool). This song has nothing to do with humanity... that guy must have been pretty high. This song is all about Syd Barret and how the music industry destroyed him. Fame, fortune, and drugs all got to his head. Every song on Wish You Were Here is centered around Have A Cigar. the machine of life | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/26/09 it's the machine of life that tackles you down. "what did you dream,It's alright we told you what to dream"-its bout the lack of choice of a life.futhermore,the lyrics criticize the musical industry-big star,mean guitar etc.but the machine is the life that fucks you up,song about the cintrast between reality and dreams A paradox truth | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/10/09 In truth, I am the machine. As are you, and any who agree or disagree. Humankind is that of dominance, that of presiding in indefinite power. This song explores the nature of us, showing us that we have become the unforgiving cold steel machine that hums relentlessly as in the beginning of the song. We do what we are told, for what else are we to know? The hidden tones are deeply conveyed using it's ingenious emulation that makes us feel used, and worn. This is not simple to explain, but tangible in extrapolation. There is no such thing as not conforming, also there is no such thing as content. At least that's what were told... Welcome to the Machine | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/31/09 The following is not my theory on the meaning of the song's lyrics, it is simply a revelation because of it... They say America is the land of the free. Free compared to what? Compared to the Third World countries where residents struggle to poke their noses above the poverty line, or fight for the lives, or die for the beliefs. Only without government can man truly be free. Free to live, to breathe, to believe, to move, to speak, but also to murder, to steal, to rape. This is why government has been developed. All of us have been entered, upon birth, without our consent into the social contract of America. Basically, a social contract is the agreement between the man, and the government...the machine. The man gives up his freedom to kill, to murder, to steal, to rape, and maybe a few others, for the promise that no other man under that social contract will do the same unto him. From this example, the social contract sounds like a dream, but has America gone too far? In order to achieve domestic tranquility as explicitly described in the preamble to the United States Constitution, America has taken many of our freedoms and given us nothing back... Example, the Patriot Act. They can listen to you talk on the phone, on the computer, at your workplace, in your neighborhood, in your backyard, and if they feel it necessary by their principles and not yours, even in your home. What have you got in turn for this social contract? You have received the statement that this will help prevent future acts of terrorism. I believe a man, Eric Blair, who called himself George Orwell labeled the word 'help' as a weasel word, a fallacy amongst promises. How can one prove they are "helping" to prevent terrorism, and does, "helping" prevent terrorism prevent it? The machine says so, so you believe it. And so, you give the machine consent to take more of your rights so that you may "feel" safer, even though you will not "be" any safer. When you truly think hard enough, the chaos that rules in third world, may just be the symbol of absolute freedom. The crime there knows no bounds, but crime is a word bound by perspective. What is a crime to Americans may not be a crime elsewhere, so in a way...the rest of the world has more freedom than the land of the free. As we mature we go through milestones, and each milestone comes with more respect, more responsibility. At least that is what we are told. As we mature, we do reach milestones, but instead of respect we receive less respect and are taught to silently yield to it and not to grow angry. Instead of responsibility, we receive more rules, these rules come in clumps at each milestone because the human spirit is born free and to hold it down takes many chains, that must be put on over time. So in reality...when you are born, the doctor should not say, "It's a boy." Your parents shouldn't say, "How beautiful" they should say, "Son...Welcome to the Machine." The next step... | Reviewer: Janie Waffles | 4/1/09 It's all pretty awesome and thought provoking. I suggest you all read the Daniel Quinn "Ismael" books (his later ones are too anti-religion). You'll find out exactly what the machine is, and how long we've been "filtering" into it. And always, read your Bible. It actually uncovers WHO runs the machine! Deep stuff | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/12/09 The machine is society, we clock in, clock out, go home and do it all over again. Doing what we're programmed to, like a machine. As a kid, he didn't have a care in the world, then he grew up and became part of the machine. Bob | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/9/09 Well , this song talks about propagandism nad how they controlled his mind , i think he talks about himself , when he was young without saying it .. by saying : 'You bought a guitar to punish your ma' on the other hand ,he talks about the government is controlling their mind and spreading their ideas without any bondary . Well, welcome to the machine is a complicated song, but i think thats what they call : psychedelic music , its so absurde . the machine | Reviewer: ben | 2/4/09 I listened to this song for the first time when I did acid for the first time and my buddy played it for me when I was sitting there tripping and everything about this song (musically not necessarily lyrically) pulled at my heart strings. But the lyrics did speak to me and my friend told me that his interpretation of the song was about doing psychedelics for the first time and when he says "welcome to the machine" it's talking about how the world or this dimension or whatever you want to call it is the machine, kind of like the matrix but not exactly. that's why they say where how you been, it's ok we know where you've been, in the pipleline, filling in time... meaning stuck in this "world" waiting to come to the realization of what is "real". The school part and being no ones fool is about not falling for what "the man" is telling you to believe. We never really talked about what the rest, but listening to that song blew my mind, any time I smoke, or trip I HAVE to listen to that song b/c it's just simply one of the most amazing songs i've ever listened to What i think | Reviewer: Mike | 1/12/09 I think this song is about governmet, and how they try to controll your every movement. "What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream!" How more perfect to say it. And then they came out with Run Like Hell. They are telling you to avoid the comunistic societies, because you won't have your own life. Welcome to the Machine is not about Syd Barret. It's about us being a machine. A machine is a repatitive devise being controlled by a higher power. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 Review the song Welcome to the machine The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Pink Floyd" Music | |
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