Bring the toys out for the boys Let the children make their noise See the monsters in their metal cages
Turn the lights down in your soul Cut the power to your heart See the carcass in its dying rages
Machine men, cannibals of rust
Machine men, iron bites the dust
Machine men, built with feet of clay
Are coming to sweep you all away What bitter vampire made you this? Gave you life with its deathly kiss Ground your limbs to bloody stew Made a new machine of you
Turned a nightmare into day Sucks your breath, takes your life away Beating harder through your veins Someone else's cold remains
Machine men, cannibals of rust
Machine men, iron bites the dust
Machine men, built with feet of clay Are coming to sweep you all away They're coming to sweep you all away
Machine men, cannibals of rust
Machine men, iron bites the dust
Machine men, built with feet of clay
Are coming to take you all away
Machine men, cannibals of rust
Machine men, iron bites the dust
Machine men, built with feet of clay
Are coming to take you all away
They're coming to sweep you all away Iron - in the soul