The Secret of the Machines - Jherek Bischoff, Caetano Veloso, Greg Saunier

Torn from the mountainside

And the mind we melt in the pit

Cast, wrought and hammered there

By design we’re cut, tooled and fitted

We can pull and haul and push, lift, drive, print, plough and weave

And light

We can run and race and swim, fly, dive, see, hear, and count

And write

Shall we pipe water down

From the snows that fall in the hills

Turning your water wheels

As it flows through cities and gristmills

It is easy!

Give us your drills

The hard shouldered rocks will quake

As the thirsty valley with dammed floods fills up and turns to lake