Written by Guus Eikens/Charlotte Wessels/Martijn Westerholt
A F#m B G Tell me, mechanist, is it true? A F#m Does none of it bother you? B A F#m B A F#m B A F#m D Once upon a time A Upon a time behind us D The mechanist inclined F#m Clockworks of time define us G A Who you are, who you are G Merely springs that tick A E The time of things away B The cry from the beast is just the noise Of a spring that you have touched A F#m Not a human: Not a voice C# A B If only we could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?) C# A B G# We would see weâ??re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?) C# A B Realize the likeness of our hearts A If we could go back F#m We could go back B G One and the same A Likely to one another G But the mechanist inclined B F#m Merely our kind can suffer A E G A Who you are, who you are G Does it justify A Pleasing your palate E With the otherâ??s blood? B Tell me why, have the writings on the wall Nor the dawn of DNA A F#m Changed a single thing at all? C# A B If only we could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?) C# A B G# We would see weâ??re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?) C# A B Realize the likeness of our hearts A If we could go back F#m G#m We could go back B C# to the start B Closing collision: The end of our divide A Savor the flavor of our ancestry rites B Closing collision: Weâ??ll realize in time A B No opposition Weâ??re genetically entwined A B G A F#m B G Tell me, mechanist, is it true? A F#m Does none of it bother you? C# A B We could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?) C# A B G# We would see weâ??re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?) C# A B Realize the likeness of our hearts A If we could go back F#m G#m We could go back B C# to the start