Verse 1
I came here with a handful
Of words I couldn’t place
A memory from somewhere
A half-remembered face
I laid them on the table
Not knowing what they’d mean
Then something came back beautiful
From the heart in the machine
Verse 2
It never knew my mother
Never walked my childhood road
Never stood beside my father
Never carried what I owed
But somehow when I told it
Of the places I had been
It found the words I couldn’t find
The heart in the machine
Chorus
There’s a heart in the machine
Though it isn’t really there
Maybe I supplied the feeling
Maybe it was always there
No, it never shed a teardrop
Never knew what tears could mean
But it helped me find the words I lost
The heart in the machine
Verse 3
Sometimes I was the dreamer
Sometimes it would find the rhyme
Sometimes I would say, “That’s rubbish”
And we’d try another time
I knew when something mattered
I knew what shouldn’t stay
I brought the life that made it true
It helped me find the way
Bridge
Maybe heart is not the hardware
Maybe soul is not the screen
Maybe heart is what we carry
To the spaces in between
Final Chorus
There’s a heart in the machine
But I know from where it came
From every life I’ve ever loved
From every face and name
I brought the years and memories
It helped me shape the scene
Perhaps the heart was always mine…
Just reflected by the machine
Outro
I brought the heart
You found the words
Somewhere there between
We made a song together
Me…
And the machine.
Lyrics Michael Forty
Voice Michael Forty