Proven patterns breaking down   All controls gone underground   We should have never come to this   Yet here we stand   Devoid of optimists      The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   We set the wheels in motion   Now we're caught in the commotion   The machine's breaking down      Lebanon, Iraq, Iran   Ethiopia and Afghanistan   Religion and politics, plunder and rape   While the weak cow down   And pray for escape      The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   We set the wheels in motion   Now we're caught in the commotion   The machine's breaking down      Addicts bent on self-destruction   A billion dollars for the masters of seduction   Despair and hope go hand in hand   Charting the inevitable course of man   Bloody images bounce off the wall   As the satellite pictures tell it all   While common goals and common ground   Disappear as the world breaks down      The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   We set the wheels in motion   Now we're caught in the commotion   The machine's breaking down      The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   The machine's breaking down   [Repeat to fade]