Come with me I'll Show you how to be a metal man,
When the gears are turning and the fires burnin'
When the world tick around you, voices tocking all the time
When you live for sleep and you've never slept, because you cannot sleep
Colonel Walter was shocked when he heard from the Nile
Copper African Elephants turning hostile
So he built these wonderful automaton blokes
And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes
Now the war is past and over, we're left to sit and wonder
What is life? and what is real? and why do living things need feel-
Ing, ings, INGS! (here we gooo! ah 1,2,3)
La da da da da, La da da da da
La da da da da, La da da da da da
La da da da da, La da da da da
La da da da da, La da da da da da
How'd you like to try pumping lead through your veins
Or have a heart so wet and cold it starts rusting
When the world tick around you, voices tocking all the time
You live for feelings you've never felt because you cannot feel
And what is this leaking affecting my eye?
Does the oil that is dripping mean this is a cry?
Will I ever be something with feelings to hide?
Or am I just a boiler with nothing inside?
I want all today, don't want to hear you say
You can't do this, you can't do that, you're not a living thing with feel-
Ing, ings, INGS! (ah 1,2,3)
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!)
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!)
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles, goggles, goggles!)
Wind me up, turn the gears (Brass goggles!)
I want all today, don't want to hear you say
I love you, I love you, I love-love-love you
Colonel Walter was shocked when he heard from the Nile
Copper African Elephants turning hostile
So he built these wonderful automaton blokes
And a very big steam powered giraffe what smokes