Machine Head - Triple Beam Lyrics






And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
'Cause that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

When you balance life on a triple beam
When you balance life on a triple beam

I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick
The violence in my life was a measuring stick
And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

I used to dream about the end
And when it would come
Drug dealers die young at the end of a gun
Powders on the triple beam
Girls around my neck
No money?
Well… she could always pay with sex
Bikers tried to front me 30 grand worth of shit
Knew that if I took it, I'd never get out of this
What the fuck am I doing with amphetamines?
But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

When you balance life on a triple beam
When you balance life on a triple beam

I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick
The chaos in my life was a measuring stick
And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

My dealer trusted nobody
Make you take a test
See if you would rat him out or stab him in the chest
He'd make you suck the Glass-Dick, called it "dragon's breath"
Smoke a giant hit of speed, prove you weren't the feds
Your heart would beat so fast
Before your eyes life flashed
Ain't easy to make cash
Living off of meth
It's a paranoid world
Violent and mean
But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

When you balance life on a triple beam
When you balance life on a triple beam

I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick
The party and my money girl suckin' my dick
And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
Cause that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

Paranoid, the gun is loaded
Nose destroyed and mind corroded
Rival dealers want me broken
If I sleep, it's with one eye open

They call it crank, speed, rosebud, methamphetamine
They call it crank, ice, bathtub, methamphetamine

At the AM/PM Shattuck and 51st
1:30 in the morning, streets at their worst
My buddy started a fight, some dude by the pumps
These black girls strolled up to watch 'em take their lumps
Three cars rolled up, 15 dudes rolled out
"You fuckin' with our girls?"
(Mouth running like a spout)
I threw the first punch, nose broke on my rings
Now I'm fighting 4 dudes and my heads starting to ring
Somebody screamed "Stop, he's got a knife, run!"
Not everybody listened, all of us were drunk
As I turned my head I saw my friend's knife blade
Murder in his eyes, the devil in his veins
He swung at the first, but then he missed
2nd one got lucky, 3rd one took a hit
The 4th one got caught and this time he wasn't missing
Teeth grit down, survival of the fittest
And he stabbed him, and he stabbed him, and he stabbed him again
Kill that motherfucker, let him never breathe again
And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
Cause that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

When you balance life on a triple beam
Come on! When you balance life...

I turn a gram to an eight ball, an eight to a brick
The violence and the bloodshot is making me sick
And there's no moral to the story, read the lines in between
But that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam

When you balance life on a triple beam





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  1. M.... C....

    This is a second coming to the burning red i knew he was going to go this route on this LP

  2. T.... V....

    The worst of the cringy lyrics on catharsis. Musically, it's good.
    But come on, "He'll make you suck a glass d#ck"- i mean wh

  3. J.... K....

    Love this song. It's different than what you usually hear from Machine Head but great lyrics and it's about real shit. After all the years and albums Robb always impresses me.

  4. S.... M....

    Machine Head meets Kid Rock

  5. a.... ....

    The lyrics remind me of the show Shameless.

  6. S.... H....

    feat. Stitches

  7. P.... N....

    I feel sorry for people who speak english and understand this lyrical cringefest

  8. C.... ....

    Could'nt even make it to the end of the song, sad

  9. M.... B....

    My Plague.

  10. K.... ....

    This explains the 90's corn rows he used to wear.

  11. d.... ....

    Triple Cheese

  12. S.... 7....

    Just sounds corny...this guy letting his “inner street” loose makes me laugh, he grew up pretty comfortable...any drug dealing ambition he had was not out of any desperation, just clearly to be cool or some shit. It’s not like he was hustling in the worst ghetto of Oakland...instead to a bunch suburban kids in Cozy Freemont.

    Robb, just stop, please! It’s embarrassing....your a Bay Area Thrasher, not a Bay Area gang banger.

    S.... 7....

    Taken from a text that robb wrote to his younger self:
    "In your early 20s, you’ll still love playing music and want to make it. But when your band Vio-Lence is ending, you’ll start selling drugs to make money – and you’ll be good at it. You won’t get high on your own supply. Even though you’re addicted to it, the logic will come over you that if you’re gonna sell it, you shouldn’t do it. You won’t be in a street gang, but you’ll be out of your mind on the streets. Cops will bust everybody, but you’ll miss them by five minutes. You’ll go to Slayer shows and make $2,000 selling speed – it’ll be like the jackpot at Slayer shows. Listen: in a few years you’ll be supporting them, and it’ll be the first time you’ve ever left America.

    This will be your life; parts of it will be fun, and parts of it will be terrifying. Some bikers will offer to front you a shit-ton of speed because they’ll think you’re some rising star, and it’ll scare the fuck out of you. You’re just trying to make money between being in a band, and it’ll make you wanna be in a band more. Dudes will want you dead. For a good six months you will not be safe anywhere you go. Every step you walk out the door, you will have a gun and a knife. It will be a twitchy way to live. And then Machine Head will happen."

  13. J.... E....

    King 810 rip off!!! Wtf. I used to reapect machine head. Go listen to king and tell me im wrong

  14. C.... G....

    Been down that 💩 road before unfortunately.

  15. P.... D....

    Muito massa mesmo

  16. A.... ....

    I don't care for the album as a whole cause its basically Supercharger 2: Electric Boogaloo, but this song is a guilty pleasure. Good job

  17. R.... L....

    Reminiscent of daemon hunter

  18. B.... D....

    Why are my comments hidden, I have been a Machine Head fan since I heard BME back in 1994!

    B.... D....

    Ok I guess my replies are hidden, oh well fuck it, MACHINE FUCKING HEAD!

    B.... D....

    This song just seem s like it could have been on the Supercharger album

  19. M.... M....

    This album is worse than St. Anger.

  20. D.... X....

    oh dear...not good

  21. M.... S....

    is this King 810??

  22. O.... L....

    robb rapea mejor que eminem y lil wayne xd

  23. O.... L....

    nu metal rules lml

  24. B.... ....

    I fucking love this song

  25. K.... T....

    When your parents tell you to dream but all they do is make you scream come on kids fuck em tell em I'm done you want some come on get some hate it's time I give it back to them

  26. R.... V....

    These lyrics are deep. 14 years clean now.

    R.... V....

    Congrats man! One day at a time...

  27. A.... L....

    Best song they ever did.

  28. I.... G....

    Lyrics had a meaning i guess thats one positive about this shit

    I.... G....

    No it doesn’t, there’s no moral to this story.
    Read the lines in between.

  29. T.... ....

    This is absolute fucking garbage. No wonder the guitarists quit.

  30. M.... W....

    I bought a 12 pack of Coke Cola but mommy said I could only get a 6 pack but that's what happens when you live life on a triple beam DUN NUN, NUN NUN NUN

  31. D.... ....

    Triple Lame 🙄

  32. D.... W....

    Bro this FUCKING SONG GOES TOO DAMN HARD

  33. O.... D....

    This is the least MH song I've ever heard... yet I don't think it's really THAT BAD

  34. S.... D....

    Sounds like they’ve been listening to Hamilton. I don’t think it’s bad personally in itself!

  35. u.... ....

    Maquina Prozex

    u.... ....

    en un asado el Prozesador

  36. D.... C....

    This new limp bitzkit song it pretty good

  37. R.... ....

    I'm fairly new to MH so this new stuff is as alien to me as the old. However I've been going through the old and the new stuff here and noticed the style does change album to album. It's not a bad thing like some here seem to think. There is only so much you can create with a single style before running out of ideas (And forcing yourself to a style when you just ain't feeling it is going to create garbage as well). I for one love the fact bands go through change and find new sounds to go with. You don't need to like the new sound. What matters is that there is a new sound and that most likely there is also another band out there trying out a new sound that appeals to you. Doing the same shit over and over gets boring in the long run for the band and the audience. Also, no one is taking the old stuff you liked away from you.

  38. L.... G....

    Saw this fuckshow comin when they released is anybody out there

    L.... G....

    Which is actually a great song

  39. G.... M....

    robbs rants sealed the fate of this band. utter garbage.

  40. J.... P....

    Nope sorry I’m gonna have to yeet out on this one

  41. B.... ....

    It's gangster, Robb is cholo... Fk the haters I'm actually digging this

  42. M.... K....

    this album kills the almighty Machine Fucking Head Sorry And the band just gone. ...This is so sad

  43. A.... K....

    I like it. Sounds exactly like supercharger stuff

  44. L.... S....

    The worst about all in MH is that Flynn's surely thinking "hey....this is great stuff"....it sounds like all those horrible ideas in one song...absolutely crap...

  45. m.... ....

    This song is awful.

  46. J.... S....

    once a machine head fan always a fan. this song kicks ass and if you dont like it you probably need a kick in the ass.

    J.... S....

    Your taste in music being whatever they release because they're machine head is fucking fascinating.

  47. M.... W....

    This is fuckin quality....

  48. R.... H....

    Stuff like this is why machine head is losing members and fans at an alarming rate! Machine head was once one of my top five bands but when Robb started being the SJW it started to alienate them and after the catharsis album I've moved on. I hate it cause they were on the way to be the next huge metal band but it stalled out after the locust album. Hopefully this is a learning curve for Robb and if he carries on he'll let the orher members have a voice as well cause with only his voice he's killed machine head!

  49. p.... o....

    Shit nu metal & dreadful far left whining, no wonder they split, even his band mates can't stand Flynn

  50. D.... B....

    This is literally Rob having fladbacks of the past and put it on a song 😅 killer song and album btw!

  51. N.... M....

    King 810 Head

  52. B.... 2....

    What the fuck is this lol

  53. L.... M....

    riffs sick lyrics are a bit iffy though

  54. f.... d....

    If he keeps writing like this, he'll be balancing life in the unemployment line

  55. B.... S....

    I need to go listen to The Blackening after hearing this shit. What the fuck Rob? No wonder your bandmates bailed. As a 20 year long Machine Head fan I'm saddened by a lot of this album.

  56. A.... A....

    Rob is taking MH back to the dead era of Nu Metal. Feel like I should be bringing out some baggy-ass pants, and bleach tip my hair! Holy shit!!

    Here is the thing about Nu Metal...it's not metal. It lacks character and depth. It's just an attempt to make something sound heavy af without much composition whatsoever. Just bang shit together and see what it sounds like...bunch of 0 and 1 notes on the fucking low E string on the guitar is what it sounds like. On drums, crash, snare, bass drum combo is all that is primarily used. Plus, no solo = not metal. I don't care who you are or what band you are, if the song doesn't take the effort in building up a solo to expand the dynamics of the main riff(s), then it ain't metal!!

    The first song that blew my mind coming back from their nu metal days, and melted my face, like true metal does, was Vim from Ashes. Listen to that, then listen to this again and tell me again that Rob hasn't lost his fucking marbles....

  57. P.... B....

    Loved Machine Head when they first came out, Burn my eyes is still to this day a brilliant album. Along the way they have released some awful music, and some good to great stuff. I thought Bloodstone & Diamonds was a great album. For this to come on the following album is a joke. Catharsis is shit. I think Robb Flynn is also a pretty annoying cunt tbh. That whole video about Phil Anselmo reeked of attention seeking, so is his silly tour vlogs. Hes a drama queen, i think thats the reason members are leaving. I wouldnt pay to see em live again either.

  58. B.... ....

    I don't usually comment, but I must say that I actually like this song. It's not the "usual" way sure it's true, but there are things you can learn from this story that he experienced in his life. And perhaps if some events in his life would have been different, we wouldn't have MH at all. Besides just because some of you may not like this or other songs, doesn't mean you speak for all of us. But in the end of the day we are all human, part of this awesome MH community blasting the music!

  59. D.... v....

    Why is this lyric video better then Disturbed’s?

  60. R.... F....

    Many may not know that machine head has alot of hip hop influences and were also prominent in the nu metal era thats why your hearing songs like this. They do straight up metal and nu metal/hip hop influenced music. Always have really. This song is a true story about when robb flynn was a speed dealer when he was young before machine head began.

    R.... F....

    That is what I was wondering. Did he really witness a murder ?

  61. M.... B....

    Full circle...now for the red leather pants and cornrows. Bummer with the midlife crisis stuff. I miss the previous band. Sincerely, a diehard MH fan. RIP.

  62. J.... ....

    Did Insane Clown Posse ghost write this bullshit?

  63. S.... H....

    WTF is up with these lame ass lyrics????!!!!!!!!

  64. K.... M....

    We are all going to have to balance our lives on a triple beam sooner or later. don't fall off.

  65. P.... S....

    Rob Flynn fucking killing it

  66. W.... i....

    This is actually really good...was great in winnipeg live as well...what a shitkicker of a show..almost 3 hours

  67. 2.... S....

    metal sucks this year

  68. T.... L....

    Best clean voice of robert flynn

  69. m.... ....

    IT WAS HARD TO GIVE A THUMBS DOWN, FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL BAND... This aong suxxxx

  70. M.... W....

    New machine head line up——Dave Lombardo drums ,Kerry king guitar....

  71. M.... W....

    Great stuff..

  72. H.... F....

    No wonder phil and dave resign...

  73. C.... D....

    KING 810

  74. S.... F....

    FFS, So many haters!!!

  75. V.... U....

    Fucking excellent. Machine head is Rob with or without dave and the others.

  76. W.... M....

    New Metal + Groove Metal= Triple Beam

  77. C.... r....

    😍😍

  78. S.... M....

    A Fuckin' agree with that MAN!!! "Robb, songs like this are the reason Phil and Dave quit..." I just can't belive this is the SAME band who released wonderful masterpieces like: Through the Ashes of Empires, The Blackening and Unto the Locust....JUST TO NAME SOME FEWS HERE... ....WHAT THE HELL?!?

  79. Z.... I....

    One thing I hope we can all agree upon: the quality of this lyric video animation is second-to-none.

  80. J.... G....

    Hopefully Dave and Phil form a new band together and kick ass like MH used to. We can only hope 🤞

  81. D.... T....

    These kids are really talented i cant wait for their next album

    D.... T....

    rob is 40 and it's shit this album

    D.... T....

    @jew 51 actually

  82. D.... G....

    Watching Machine Head implode is sad

  83. X.... ....

    I don’t like the vocals on this song

  84. a.... t....

    Kinda hard to believe that this is the same band that wrote things like Darkness Within, Wolves and This is the End...

    a.... t....

    Guess you skipped The Burning Red and Supercharger then,...

  85. �.... X....

    The only song on this album I don't like is "Bastards", this song is sick and easily the best rap metal MH song so far. From This Day and the others were more "playful", this one's hard, like MH's cover of Ice T'z "Colours". I'd take more rap metal MH songs as long as they're not as jumpy as "From This Day", and more downbeat, hardcore hip hop influenced like this.

  86. M.... M....

    i just wish he wasnt a brainless sjw

  87. I.... M....

    Some people hate the new album. I think it is badass and this song is fuckin awesome.

  88. E.... J....

    when i listen this i fell like listen limp bizkit on sterids with strong moral about uses drugs

  89. T.... T....

    Breaks my heart to say this but this is shit, plain and simple. I've been a fan for over 20 years and witnessed the first downfall of the band and also the glorious resurrection in the mid 2000s. Now Robb is leading the band again on a musical direction which nobody really wants to see or hear. Hope he gets his act together soon.

    T.... T....

    Doesn't sound like it... 2 members quit and Robb admits are due to him and he is still posting sjw comments on his twitter account up until today... He obviously hasn't learnt anything

    T.... T....

    Amen, brother

    T.... T....

    So long then

  90. G.... S....

    Riff at 2:33 sounds exactly like intro riff of kashmir by led Zeppelin

    G.... S....

    No, it really doesn't.

  91. D.... ....

    Fantástico

  92. D.... M....

    Think Robb Flynn should join Fred durst

  93. D.... ....

    What a mess...
    I really cant stand anything about this song
    The lyrics are cringy af
    I hate the introduction
    I hate the verses
    I hate the bridge
    I could write a better song about how much i hate this "song"

  94. M.... S....

    Awesome. And Robbs real personal experiences.

  95. R.... 3....

    As much as I don't really like this album...this song was ALMOST done right...the verses are decent and they have a message behind what he is saying, but it completely fails with the chorus imo. The chorus is a little too poppy for my taste.

  96. D.... E....

    Horrible.

  97. C.... F....

    DAMN THIS SUCKS